Bad cyber security legislation CISPA is likely to fail if it goes to a vote on the Senate floor, according to comments made by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.), chairman of the committee on commerce, science and transportation, today.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protections Act passed in the House today after many privacy groups spoke out in opposition.
Editor's Pick CISPA author Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) says he hasn't heard of one U.S. company that opposes CISPA. We've heard of four.
Looks like CISPA, which was recently voted through committee, may have to go back to the drawing room floor as the White House threatens to veto it.
A criticized cyber-security bill that hopes to improve information sharing between the private and public sectors was voted through by the House Intelligence Committee today.
As a member of congress, it's one thing to support a bad piece of tech policy because you don't fully understand the Internet but it's quite another when you brag about all the money you're making on the side from that position.
While congress has yet to reach any sort of lasting solution regarding the nations growing cyber security problems, President Barack Obama has decidedly taken the first big step in an executive order signed earlier today.
Rumors of CISPA's demise were apparently greatly exaggerated, according to various privacy rights advocates and organizations today.
The Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Act was defeated in the Senate today by a vote of 52-46 — four senators shy of its requirement to move forward.
The Senate bill was a response to the House’s Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act …
The senate is expected to vote on an amendment next week that would allow video rental services like Netflix to take advantage of deeper integration with social networks like Facebook.
Despite being the country’s largest streaming movie service, Netflix is …
Following a number of large botnet attacks on major corporations last year, the Obama administration announced a voluntary, industry-wide plan to combat botnets based on a set of developed principles by the Industry Botnet Group (IBG) and nine other private …
Facebook is just now kicking off a roadshow meant to drum up interest in its forthcoming initial public offering, which is estimated to bring the social media giant between $9.4 billion and $11.8 billion. However, there is at least one …
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As one of the more prominent and vocal opponents of anti-piracy legislation SOPA, social news site Reddit has positioned itself as an organization that deeply cares about tech policy. But sometimes that can work against it.
For instance, last weekend …
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a hotly protested cyber security bill, CISPA, with a vote of 248 to 168 this afternoon.
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, seeks to give American companies more legal breathing …
White House advisers yesterday said they’ll recommend that President Barack Obama veto the controversial cyber security bill CISPA if it passes a congressional vote in its current form.
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (PDF), intends to …
If its lobbying spend is any indication, Google is trying to woo the government. The search giant spent triple what it did a year ago on lobbying efforts in Washington, according to The Hill.
Google’s spending in Washington, D.C. has …
After lots of public outcry, Facebook has published a letter today explaining its support for controversial cyber-security legislation, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA (PDF).
CISPA intends to grant companies more leeway when it comes to collecting …
