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Senate OKs Bill To Extend Eavesdropping
Posted by LA Times on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, privacy
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By Greg Miller, LA Times The Senate approved espionage legislation that would expand the government’s authority to intercept international phone calls and e-mails and to block lawsuits against U.S. telecommunications companies that aided in past spying efforts. |
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An FCC watcher’s guide to Super Tuesday
Posted by Lasar_s Letter on the FCC on 04 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Politics, FCC, Telecommunications, 08 Election
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By Matthew Lasar, LLFCC Super Tuesday is coming on, well, Tuesday… And while the horse-race watchers obsess over which candidate will be most electable, LLFCC has kept track of their positions on broadcasting and telecommunications related issues. |
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FCC Leader, PPMs Retreat As Foes Ascend
Posted by Chicago Tribune on 28 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Technology, FCC, Television, Telecommunications, Radio
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By Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune FCC Chairman Kevin Martin miscalculated support for a report that would have supported his agenda to exercise more control over the cable TV industry. |
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F.C.C. Chief Seeks Votes To Tighten Cable Rules
Posted by NY Times on 26 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Telecommunications, Cable, Licensing
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By Stephen Labaton, NY Times The head of the FCC is struggling to find enough support from a majority of the agency’s commissioners to regulate cable television companies more tightly. |
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Wiretapping at Its Worst
Posted by Media Consortium on 24 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Pentagon, Verizon, Telecommunications, AT&T
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By Brian Beutler, Media Consortium A revolving door between the telecommunications industry and federal government ensures that the doors to your personal privacy are wide open. |
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Wiretapping at Its Worst
Posted by Media Consortium on 24 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Pentagon, Verizon, Telecommunications, AT&T
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By Brian Beutler, Media Consortium A revolving door between the telecommunications industry and federal government ensures that the doors to your personal privacy are wide open. |
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Senate Deal on Immunity for Phone Companies
Posted by NY Times on 18 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, USGOP, USDemocrats, Bush, 9/11, Pentagon, Cheney, Policy, Verizon, Telecommunications, AT&T, US Congress
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By Eric Lichtblau, NY Times Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee reached a tentative agreement with the Bush administration that would give telephone carriers legal immunity for any role they played in the NSA’a domestic eavesdropping program approved by President Bush. |
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31 Skidoo
Posted by Huffington Post on 11 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Policy, Telecommunications, Giuliani
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By Marvin Kitman, Huffington Post Rudy Giuliani and the sale of public TV station WNYC/31. |
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Immunity Crucial In Talks On Eavesdropping Rules
Posted by NY Times on 10 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Bush, Free Speech, 9/11, Politics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Iraq War, Telecommunications
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By Eric Lichtblau, NY Times Whether telecommunication utilities should have legal immunity for having helped the NSA conduct eavesdropping without warrants emerged on Tuesday as the pivotal issue in the debate over wiretapping powers. |
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Burma Shuts Down Last Communication Links
Posted by Guardian Unlimited on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Telecommunications, Security
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By Ian MacKinnon, Guardian Unlimited Burma’s regime is targeting the last remaining communications links that brought images of the bloody crackdown on the recent pro-democracy protests to the outside world. |
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Our New Sputnik Moment
Posted by The Hill on 03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, RU, Economics, Technology, Telecommunications
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By Charles Benton, The Hill As America falls further behind in the world on broadband, we must seize upon the lessons of one chilly night 50 years ago tomorrow– Oct. 4, 1957. |
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Editorials Amplify Call for Congress to Act Against Telco Censorship
Posted by Save The Internet on 03 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy, Verizon, Activism, Telecommunications, AT&T
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By Save The Internet Verizon and AT&T’s attempts to sweep away the controversy over cell phone censorship backfired today with major newspaper editorials and articles on the issue. Despite phone companies’ best spin… |
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Intelligence Chief Pushes New Spy Law
Posted by USA Today on 17 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Bush, Technology, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, Judicial, US Congress, privacy
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By Richard Willing, USA Today Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell heads to Capitol Hill seeking to extend the government’s power to read e-mails, listen to telephone calls and carry out other surveillance in the USA in national security cases. |
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Point, Click… Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
Posted by Wired on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, Politics, Technology, FBI, Policy, Telecommunications, Security, Democracy, Terror, privacy
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By Ryan Singel, Wired The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device. |
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The Cost Of America’s Slow Internet Connection
Posted by RTT News on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Economics, Technology, Telecommunications, Business
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By RTT News While America once held the place of the most wired country in the world, its internet connection has dropped behind in the broadband race. |
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