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WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 2000 APR 28 (NB) Despite a funding crisis that is growing increasingly acute, the commission charged with advising Congress about how to protect children from "harmful" material […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 26 (NB) -- If one listens to the opposing viewpoints on the simmering debate over consumer privacy on the Internet, it is possible to come […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 21 (NB) The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) took effect today amid polite applause, calls for tougher measures and a blasting from an online […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, U.S.A., 2000 APR 20 (NB) -- An information technology conference in Salt Lake City this week had to go on without convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick after […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 20 (NB) -- As if corporate computer security managers didn't have enough to worry about from disgruntled former employees, a new study finds a marked […]

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, 2000 APR 19 (NB) -- A Montreal teenager accused of bringing a number of high-profile e-commerce sites virtually to their knees with denial-of-service attacks in February has […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 13 (NB) The Chairman of the House Commerce Committee has requested a hearing with Federal Trade (FTC) commission officials to bring the committee up to […]

YONKERS, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 2000 APR 13 (NB) A soon-to-be-published look at online privacy - or the lack thereof - from the magazine Consumer Reports accuses some of the Web's […]

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, U.S.A., 2000 APR 12 (NB) Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening: he's bad, he's nationwide. Yesterday, Glendening - the two-term Democrat most often described as "professorial" and even stiff by […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 12 (NB) House Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-Texas, and Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., today said that they plan to work for a House vote on […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 7 (NB) -- Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, intends to revise his much-maligned bill aimed at boosting the number of available, high-tech related H-1B visas, a […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 6 (NB) Even as the Internet has made stock trading cheaper, faster and more accessible, it has also created a host of legal and ethical […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 5 (NB) -- Congressional and industry opponents of the much-maligned 3 percent telecommunications excise tax today announced the formation of a coalition aimed at repealing […]

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 2000 APR 5 (NB) -- The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is charging that a Web site operator who has already been ordered by […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 5 (NB) -- Despite mounting opposition, the House will pass a bill extending permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to China when the vote comes up […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 4 (NB) -- More than 500 employer and employee members of the Business Coalition for US-China Trade descended on Capitol Hill today to urge undecided […]

WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 2000 APR 4 (NB) -- Contending that the Internet has the potential to be the greatest-ever tool for lifting Americans out of poverty, President Clinton today urged […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 4 (NB) -- Senate lawmakers on Tuesday expressed little confidence that a compromise could be reached this session on a bill to rework Cold-War era […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 3 (NB) -- Continuing its California courtroom battle against the Digital Video Disk (DVD) industry over DVD encryption codes, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has appealed […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 APR 3 (NB) -- With the House of Representatives shaping up to be an ugly battleground over the push to extend permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 28 (NB) A bid by the wireless telecommunications industry to nab some of the international radio frequency allocated for airlines could affect the safety and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 24 (NB) -- A pair of 18-year old hackers were arrested in England on Thursday for allegedly breaking into several popular e-commerce sites and stealing […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 23 (NB) -- The bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus (CPC) met for the first time on Thursday, hearing testimony from a pair of attorneys general who […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 22 (NB) -- By Staff, Newsbytes. Palestine moved a step closer to receiving its own sovereign Internet domain Wednesday, when the group charged with evaluating […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 22 (NB) -- The recent call for a congressionally appointed commission to study the issue of consumer privacy on the Internet received the endorsement of […]

WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 2000 MAR 17 (NB) -- By Staff, Newsbytes. The Immigration and Naturalization Service will have to stop accepting applications for high-tech oriented H-1B visas next week, because […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 16 (NB) -- Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is allocating close to 70 percent of its resources to review the increasing number of mega-mergers, like the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 16 (NB) -- A possible compromise on extending the Internet tax moratorium for five years on "digitized" goods like CDs and books could result in […]

WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 2000 MAR 14 (NB) -- President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have formally asked researchers around the world to make their data being collected in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2000 MAR 13 (NB) -- On the eve of American Library Association's planned National Freedom of Information Day celebration, the conservative Family Research Council (FRC) will release […]