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News New Spy Bill Sneaking Through Congress, But Rights Groups Have a Plan Coalition of civil liberties organizations have launched a groundswell of action against Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), 'a privacy bill by another name' Read more |
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Views Cyber Bill Gives Companies Perfect Cover to Gut Your Privacy Following several high-profile data breaches — such as those at Sony and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — Congress is once again feeling the pressure to push “cybersecurity” legislation. The problem is, the bill they’re laser-focused on is misguided, wouldn’t protect us — and is a huge... Read more |
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Views CISA: A Surveillance Bill by Any Other Name Smells Just As Foul An impressive coalition has formed to oppose a new surveillance bill masquerading as cybersecurity legislation. Privacy and civil liberties organizations, free market groups, and others from across the political spectrum are joining this week in a common chorus call: Stop CISA . Proponents of CISA... Read more |
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Views Now the Senate's Trying to Torpedo Net Neutrality No member of Congress should be allowed to dismantle good public policy by sneaking language into funding bills. But that’s exactly what’s been happening in the latest attack on Net Neutrality. This “legislation by appropriation” tactic is a convenient way for the cable and phone lobbies to... Read more |
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News Cementing AT&T Strangehold, FCC Poised to Approve DirecTV Buyout Mega merger "will send yet another signal to Wall Street that harmful mergers are a better business model than actual infrastructure investment," warns press freedom group Read more |
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Views Sneak Attack on Net Neutrality Picks Up Steam in Congress “Maybe every so often we can be on the side of the American people,” Rep. Jose Serrano said, “and not corporations.” Those are fighting words — but unfortunately the House majority doesn’t seem to be heeding them. Not when it comes to Net Neutrality. On Wednesday, the House appropriations committee... Read more |
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Views Global Internet Activists Give Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Internet.org Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for world domination is in trouble. The billionaire Facebook founder recently took to his social network in a bid to save Internet.org, his plan to give billions of the planet’s poorest people a limited taste of the World Wide Web. “We have a historic opportunity ahead of us... Read more |
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Views Arrests in Baltimore Highlight Need to Protect the Right to Record The recent events in Baltimore have brought into sharp focus the perils of journalists and everyday people who exercise their constitutionally protected rights to report freely and record police activity. Read more |
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Views Comcast Folds Overwhelming opposition to Comcast’s takeover of Time Warner Cable has officially killed the deal. Read more |
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News 'Spectacularly Good News for Consumers' as Comcast/Time-Warner Mega-Merger Fails 'FCC seems to have heard the nearly one million Americans who have told Washington that the proposed merger helps only the people in the executive suites of Comcast and Time Warner Cable,' says Free Press Read more |