Privacy Archive
Archives for November 2014


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is seeking a vote on the USA Freedom Act, which would rein in domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency.


A new poll shows that Americans are worried about how companies and governments collect and use their personal information.


That makes two IPO filings in one day for Benchmark’s Peter Fenton.


The first IPO of the Hadoop business is coming.


The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was supposed to stop piracy, but in recent years it’s interfered with car repairs, security research on medical devices, and more.


With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress in 2015, we could see action on several big tech policy issues.


Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) was a leading critic of NSA surveillance and CIA torture policies, but he lost his seat in Tuesday’s election.


More details to be released on what went wrong at GT Advanced Technologies.


There are lots of benefits. But the risks of hacking are still way too high.

