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Maryland Lawmakers Ban Employers from Requesting Facebook Credentials from Employees or Interviewees
Apr 11th
Last week, Maryland’s House and Senate passed legislation prohibiting employers from asking for a current or prospective employee’s logins to Facebook and other social media sites. Once Governor Martin O’Malley signs the bill into law, Maryland will become the first state in the nation to pass legislation protecting employees from having employers access their social [...]
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Lawmakers Question Whether Google Adequately Reviews Ads Potentially Related To Human Trafficking
Apr 5th
Lawmakers Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) are concerned that Google is profiting from advertisements placed by sex traffickers, expressing these fears in a joint letter to CEO Larry Page. The missive seeks reassurances of the company’s commitment to ferreting out ads that…
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Follow The Money To Figure Out Why Lawmakers Support SOPA
Jan 2nd
It’s rare to find bipartisan support for anything in Washington these days, which is why, at first glance, the Congressional support for the Stop Online Piracy Act seems so perplexing.
If Congress was going to choose to agree on something, why would it choose a bill that everyone from big Internet companies like Google and Facebook to free speech advocates to the pharmaceutical industry say is a bad idea? Or, as New York Times media columnist David Carr notes in today’s editions, “You can see why big Internet guys are upset by SOPA. Maybe you and I should be, too.”
Carr points to a potential, all-too-obvious reason why some lawmakers may be supporting a bill that, outside of the Beltway, seems to primarily appeal to traditional media companies. Those companies, according to campaign finance tracking Web site MapLight, gave four times as much to the bill’s sponsors as corporate contributors based in Silicon Valley.
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SOPA would block access to sites accused of violating U.S. copyright laws. The measure has been called Draconian by opponents who say it would fundamentally change the free-flow of information across the Internet. Proponents, ranging from the NBA to Universal, say the measure is needed to block sites like The Pirate Bay, which flagrantly flaunt copyright laws and make content available for free without paying copyright owners.
If you need more reason to feel cyncial about politics on a post-holiday, Monday morning, check out last week’s report from TorrentFreak that found Congressional staffers were illegally downloading everything from movies to adult self-help books as many of their bosses tried to push SOPA through.
Debate on the bill will resume on Jan. 17 and the Senate could take up the measure as soon as Jan. 24. The bill currently has 31 bipartisan co-sponsors and, according to a press release issued last month, growing support. See an earlier RWW post for everything you need to know about SOPA, including links to lists of companies and lawmakers that support and oppose the bill.
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Facebook Fixes Cookie Issues as Lawmakers Urge FTC Privacy Probe
Sep 29th
It was recently discovered that some Facebook cookies were left in-tact after logout. While the issue has since been resolved, select data is still tracked and recent Facebook patent information indicates that all logged-out tracking may be intent…
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US Lawmakers Voice Concerns Over Google-ITA Deal
Feb 11th
Add a few US legislators to the list of parties that are airing concerns over Google’s plan to purchase air travel software provider ITA. According to All Things Digital, two US House members and the Missouri Attorney General sent letters this week to Christine Varney, US Asst. Attorney…
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