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The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." The "Child Saf

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Buzz is building about the Wednesday launch of an advocacy coalition intended to draw attention to "the opportunities and challenges that the Internet presents for consumers, artists and the technology community alike." The kick-off is being held in New Y

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Legislation to authorize more than $300 million for Justice Department-funded Internet Crimes Against Children task forces and would alter how online child pornography is reported by Internet companies passed the Senate late Thursday after a deal was reac

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Legislation to authorize a $320 million funding boost for Justice Department-supported Internet Crimes Against Children task forces and impose higher penalties on Internet service providers that do not report child pornography found on their networks pass

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The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.

Working Americans express mixed views about the impact of technology on thei

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The Media Bloggers Association is a nonpartisan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members; supporting the development of "blogging" or "citizen journalism" as a distinct form of media; and helping to extend the p

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The Media Bloggers Association (“MBA”) announced today that it has launched a comprehensive program to provide bloggers access to the same sort of legal and financial resources long available to traditional media organizations including BlogInsure, a firs

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Legal Views May Hamper Prosecution of Palin Hackers
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl delivers an interesting legal analysis of the alleged unauthorized access of Governor Palin's email account in light of published Department of Justice comments on e

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Whistle-Safe.org is a site designed to lower to cost of whistleblowers coming forward, by offering to protect their anonymity. In this climate of a scandal a day, useful progress.

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MAPlight, a site dedicated to revealing the connections between politics, politicians, and money donated from interest groups, unveiled a new tool this week that allows you to see how congressional committees influence legislation and how special-interest

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Internet gambling may be making a comeback here in the US, at least as financial services are concerned. The House Committee on Financial Services has approved a new bill—HR 6870, or the Payments System Protection Act—that seeks to offer relief to financi

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Nearly 70 percent of U.S. businesses responding to a Justice Department national computer security survey detected at least one cybercrime and over half reported experiencing one or more cyber attacks, the agency announced Wednesday in a Bureau of Justice

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the full 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the decision of the three-judge panel that ruled the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) unconstitutional — for the third time. Just today the court denied the government’s request for a rehearing.

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8 Egyptian bloggers are in the US for a first-hand look at the election campaigns.
They will be blogging on this site through the presidential inauguration as part of a project by the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American

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he chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee has written to the four largest US network operators demanding they explain why the cost of texting has doubled since 2005. Text messages have been a nice little earner for European

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President Bush signed into law a bill that will establish a new national research center for studying digital technology and learning. The center aspires be to edtech what the National Institutes of Health have been for medical research.

The National Cen

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