Government Stories for 2018

FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues 398
Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? 497
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government 93
India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart To Sell Products Online 135
Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm 56
US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown 370
Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data To the Public; Requires Federal Agencies To Publish 'Non-Sensitive' Info in 'Machine-Readable' Format 89
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report 82
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding 73
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses 563
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 408
After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers 77
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public 105
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws 66
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress 407
Department of Commerce Could Be the First US Entity To Broadly Regulate an Aspect of AI 51
Ivanka Trump Used Personal Account For Emails About Government Business 498
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? 175
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
PlayStation Begins Collecting Amusement Tax From Chicago Users 165
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 452
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights 158
Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms 32
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament 209
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic 70
Chinese Chip Firm Fujian Jinhua Denies Stealing IP From Micron 58
Iranians Compromised a Highly Sensitive CIA Covert Communications System in 2011 by Using Google Search: Report 154
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings 153
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment 342
The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State 202
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
US Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies In Conspiracy To Steal Aerospace Secrets 80
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle 183
FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' 313
UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants 90
Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions 290
Morocco Decides To Scrap Seasonal Time Changes 95
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers 143
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei 109
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222
Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal 124
China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report 423
Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack 85
Government Spyware Vendor Left Customer, Victim Data Online for Everyone To See 25
ACLU Demands DHS Disclose Its Use of Facial-Recognition Tech 62
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show 457
White House Wants To Borrow Tech Workers From Google and Amazon, Says Report 208
Feds Shut Down Self-Driving School Bus Pilot In Florida 91
US Air Pollution Deaths Nearly Halved Between 1990 and 2010 134
TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights 171
Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane 225
Smart Home Makers Hoard Your Data, But Won't Say If the Police Come For It 45
Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections 261
Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law 101
US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty 415
Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police 126
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds 137
US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say 102
In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI 330
Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats 396
Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? 651
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18
To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters 164
Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack 93
FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals 167
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition 103
Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project 137
Facebook Is 'Teeming' With Fake Accounts Created By Undercover Cops 126
Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech 140
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
US Department of Transportation Updates Autonomous Car Rules 35
Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics 256
The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data 218
Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules 266
Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman 234
In Boston: Election-Hacking War Game Bypasses Election Systems 43
California Becomes First State With an IoT Cybersecurity Law 55
Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute 198
US Government Loses Bid To Force Facebook To Wiretap Messenger Calls 40
Google CEO Will Testify Before US House on Bias Accusations 147
SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private 412
Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds 110
In Senate Hearing, Tech Giants Push Lawmakers For Federal Privacy Rules 36
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China 100
Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow 130
Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M 68
MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents 399
NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum 56
Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? 302
Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan 476
Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? 175
Mystery Solved: FBI Closed New Mexico Observatory to Investigate Child Porn 107
FCC Angers Cities, Towns With $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 131
Magic Leap is Pushing To Land a Contract With US Army To Build AR Devices For Soldiers To Use On Combat Missions, Documents Reveal 78
Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC 25
US Senate Staff Targeted By State-Backed Hackers, Senator Says 62
California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices 155
Life In the Spanish City That Banned Cars 224
Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support 159
Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries 24
US Congress Passes Bill To Help Advanced Nuclear Power 333
Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' 285
Some Northern California Cities Are Blocking Deployment of 5G Towers 187
US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' 198
FCC Data Exaggerates Broadband Access On Tribal Lands 54
FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory 261
Auto, Tech Industries Urge Congress To Pass Self-Driving Legislation 72
Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory 558
The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan 87
Senators Grill Pompeo on Vulnerable Cybersecurity at State Department 39
FCC Says It Needs More Time To Review T-Mobile, Sprint Merger 22
Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash 191
Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order 187
Tencent Shuts Poker Platform Amid Widening Gaming Crackdown 14
California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral 449
NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft 141
Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota 116
Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests 75
Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs 568
Two Lawmakers Urge FTC, CFPB To Keep Pressure On Equifax 48
$11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners 309
Apple Says New China Tariffs Would Boost Prices On Some Products 240
AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled 70
Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports 326
We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-Connected Things, Says Bruce Schneier 140
Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says 345
Blockchains Are Not Safe For Voting, Concludes NAP Report 106
One Year After the Massive Equifax Data Breach, Pretty Much Nothing Has Changed 120
DOJ: We Will Examine Social Media Firms That 'May Be Hurting Competition' 115
White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign 898
Benin Becomes the Latest African Nation Taxing the Internet; Citizens and Advocates Denounce the Move 32
Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers 679
Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of 'Overwhelming' Threat To Elections 250
Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation 103
India Pushes Back Against Tech 'Colonization' by Internet Giants 176
FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire 161
'Gold Standard' State Net Neutrality Bill Approved By California Assembly 126
EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time 260
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
Texas Lawmakers Press NASA To Base Lunar Lander Program In Houston 128
Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address 508
Facing 'Net Neutrality' Criticism, Verizon Suddenly Lifts Data Caps On All Public Safety Workers 138
Is Amazon Rigging the Bidding For Massive Government Contracts? 128
Russian Trolls Tried -- and Failed -- To Push Divisive Content On Vaccines 190
Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations 80
Millions of Texas Voter Records Exposed Online 79
Australia Bans Huawei, ZTE From Supplying Technology For Its 5G Network 77
Senators Introduce Bill That Would Require State and Local Governments To Use Paper Ballots in an Effort To Secure Elections 470
Russian Hackers Targeted US Conservative Think-Tanks, Says Microsoft 170
22 States Ask US Appeals Court To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules 125
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
HUD Files Complaint Alleging Facebook Ad Tools Allow Housing Discrimination 102
Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them 67
Australians Who Won't Unlock Their Phones Could Face 10 Years In Jail 223
H-1B Visa Use Soared Last Year At Major Tech Firms 93
EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair 342
NSA Cracked Open Encrypted Networks of Russian Airlines, Al Jazeera, and Other 'High Potential' Targets 68
Google Employees Protest Secret Work On Censored Search Engine For China 169
SEC Sends Subpoena To Tesla In Probe Over Musk's Take-Private Tweets 273
Mobile Internet Goes Free, National For a Day In Cuba 87
WWV Shortwave Time Broadcasts May Be Slashed In 2019 305
Trump Signs Defense Bill With Watered-Down ZTE Sanctions 86
California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards 782
Australia To Pass Bill Providing Backdoors Into Encrypted Devices, Communications 168
11-Year-Old Changes Election Results On Florida's Website: Defcon 2018 202
Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use 106
FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up 194
Warning Over 'Panic' Hacks on Cities 43
VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force 528
Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers 214
Oracle Challenges Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Computing Contract 101
The Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack 134
Cities' Offers For Amazon Base Are Secrets Even To Many City Leaders 142
Verizon 'Grossly Overstated' Its 4G LTE Coverage In Government Filings, Trade Group Says 81
West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections 215
Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers 32
FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked 214
Public Documents Reveal How the Branches of the US Military Are Instructed To Harness Internet Culture To Advance Their Own Messaging 162
Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality 192
FCC Sides With Google Fiber Over Comcast With New Pro-Competition Rule 134
White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California 607
Congress Passes Bill Forcing Tech Companies To Disclose Foreign Software Probes 61
Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn't Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures 68
Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project 575
Microsoft Launches Pilot Program To Provide Cybersecurity Protection To Political Campaigns and Election Authorities 42
DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure 57
Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech 223
20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet 490
Several Small Countries and Territories Have Passed Laws, or Have Legislation in the Works, To Make Themselves More Welcoming To Cryptocurrency Companies 48
DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan To Reinvent Electronics 66
Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software 180
Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports 259
Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads 165
Massachusetts Proposes Public Shaming of Net Neutrality Violators 77
German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows 325

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