December 29, 2022

US passes the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act – and why not?

Cryptographic agility: the ability and the willingness to change quickly when needed.

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June 15, 2020

Congress wants to know who is using spyware against the US

A 2021 intelligence funding draft bill mandates a report on surveillance vendors and which countries or other actors are using spyware.

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April 15, 2020

Signal: We’ll be eaten alive by EARN IT Act’s anti-encryption wolves

The Big Bad Wolves haven't blown the house down but did come up with a way to "hold the three little pigs responsible for being delicious," Signal said.

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December 23, 2019

Congress passes anti-robocall bill

A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.

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December 12, 2019

Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption

Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it'll be forced to.

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November 06, 2019

Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS

Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry's lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.

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July 04, 2019

Facebook should put a stop to Libra for now, says Congress

Could Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency undermine the security of the global financial ecosystem?

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May 10, 2019

FTC renews call for single federal privacy law

It also wants to be the country's data-privacy police: commissioners called for more resources and ability to impose penalties.

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January 21, 2019

Tim Cook demands a way for users to delete their personal data

The Apple CEO wants the FTC to set up a data-broker clearinghouse so people can see the data that companies have collected on them.

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