March 16, 2020

Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.

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February 21, 2020

Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

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January 30, 2020

Employers can’t force you to get microchipped, Indiana reps say

The US state wants to make sure employers don't "overstep their bounds" by imposing mandatory employee microchipping.

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January 29, 2020

Let’s make ransomware MORE illegal, says Maryland

… with a clumsily worded proposed bill that wouldn't protect researchers.

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March 13, 2017

Bill proposes letting victims of cybercrime hack the hackers

What could possibly go wrong? Republican Tom Graves' bill 'might result in harm to innocent parties', warns law professor

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January 25, 2016

Fighting human trafficking is the new justification for encryption backdoors (so says California)

A lawmaker has put a call to outlaw encryption by default on mobile phones into a human trafficking bill.

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January 15, 2016

New York tries to force phone makers to put in crypto backdoors

If it passes, Apple, Google, et al., would have to either hobble encryption or pay $2,500 fines per phone sold in the state.

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April 23, 2015

‘Aaron’s Law’ back in Congress to bring “long overdue” fix of US hacking law

The proposed overhaul of the infamous Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would focus penalties on malicious computer crime.

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