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Google CEO To Testify At Congress Over China Search Engine
Google CEO To Testify At Congress Over China Search Engine It’s becoming more and more clear that the decision for Google to try and launch a Chinese version of their website is not going down very well. With their staff holding various protests, with various high-level members issuing an open…
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US Commission To Study Games and Social Media But Not Guns
US Commission to Study Video Games and Social Media But Not Firearms! With school shootings being an unfortunately all-too-common event in America, Donald Trump has made his intentions fairly clear in this regard. Rather than attempting to solve the problem of guns in America, instead games and social media are…
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Mark Zuckerberg Will Face US House Commerce Committee
Mark Zuckerberg to face US House Commerce Committee The difficult times for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook show no signs of slowing down. In recent weeks, following the Cambridge Analylitica scandal, bad news has dogged the social-media website. Firstly, the infamous ‘members at any cost’ memo began circulating again. Then, a stakeholder…
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Mark Zuckerberg Snubs Call For UK Parliament Appearance
Mark Zuckerberg Turns Down UK Parliamentary Appearance It’s been a rough 6 months for Facebook. The social media website has been fighting off problem after problem. With the latest Cambridge Analylitca scandal, they find themselves again in the firing line of political pressure. This matter has been brought to the…
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Facebook Hire 1000 New Staff to Police Advertising
Better late than never! It’s been a very topsy-turvy year for Facebook in terms of news and public relations. Generally speaking, however, the social media site has found itself under criticism for a number of reasons. One of the most recent was the revelation that the US Senate was likely…
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Cards Against Humanity Creator Joins Net Neutrality Battle
The battle between the internet and various world governments is on-going, and over in the US, the creator of Cards Against Humanity, Max Temkin, has thrown himself right into the middle of it. Should US Congress choose to compromise net neutrality, he has threatened to buy and publish the browsing…
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Congress Tells NASA: Get to Mars by 2033
Both chambers of US Congress have passed a bill that approves funding new funding for NASA and mandates that the aeronautics agency create a roadmap to get humans to Mars within 25 years. The NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 – put to Congress late last year and passed by the…
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US Congress Mandates Manned Mars Mission within 25 Years
US Congress has passed a new bill that will see a manned Mars mission launched within the next quarter-of-a-century. The bipartisan bill grants NASA $19.5 billion in funding for the exploration of the Red Planet and mandates that the proposed manned mission must happen within the next 25 years. Also…
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Ransomware Attacks on Congress Force Them to Ban Yahoo And Gmail
Remember that latest series of malware that everyone keeps talking about, ransomware? It would appear that the US Congress is all too aware of the malware given that as of the 30th April, members of congress are banned from using Yahoo and Gmail thanks to ransomware attacks stemming from the…
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Apple & FBI Heading Back to Congress to Debate Encryption
When Apple and the FBI first appeared in front of congress the debate was if Apple could be ordered to unlock an iPhone, and if so should they then create a method where they could easily access future devices for law enforcement? While the case revolving around the San Bernardino…
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US Congress Bill Plans to Make Effective Encryption Illegal
In the wake of the FBI’s feud with Apple over bypassing the encryption of San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone, the US Congress is proposing a new bill that aims to outlaw effective encryption, what is termed “technical assistance”, requiring any company or entity to build in backdoors…
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Snowden Speaks Out Regarding FBI’s Claim It Needs Apple To Unlock iPhone
Apple is currently under a lot of pressure from the US government, with the FBI looking to “request” their help in unlocking an iPhone. The problem people find is that the FBI are requesting Apple do something that Apple are not comfortable with, and as a result, have been ordered…
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Apple and FBI Go Before Congress In Privacy Talks
Apple vs the FBI has been and looks to be, one of the biggest legal debates of 2016 with large groups like Microsoft even speaking out in defence of the iPhone developer in their bid to stop what they call a “dangerous precedent” from being set. The discussion has gone to…
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Congressman on One-Man Mission to Repeal CISA
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the controversial bill that allows intelligence agencies the power to obtain user data from companies beyond the rule of law, was signed off by President Obama a fortnight ago after being forcibly bundled with a vital Federal funding bill – together known as the “Omnibus”…
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Obama Signs Into Law Controverisal CISA Bill
The controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Bill hit the desk of US President Obama yesterday, and he promptly signed off on it. The move is hardly a surprise since CISA was bundled with vital Federal funding legislation as part of an ‘omnibus’ bill that, if denied, would rob the Federal…
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