Airbnb launches campaign to ease registration requirements for SF hosts

Airbnb is fighting back against new legislation in San Francisco that aims to hold the short-term rental company accountable for ensuring ...

EU Approach To Regulating Data Needs More Hope And Less Fear

From Britain’s railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s,  innovative new technologies have routinely touched off...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Defends Status Quo, Rebuffs Attempts To Open Up Spectrum Auction

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler rejected calls from T-Mobile and others Thursday to expand the amount of wireless spectrum being reserved for sm...

Surveillance Reform Bill Clears House Only To Face Obstacles In Senate

The House of Representatives today passed the USA FREEDOM Act on a 338-88 vote. Despite receiving overwhelming support in the lower cham...

Tech Companies Line Up Behind Surveillance Reform Bill

A wide range of companies today released their support for a surveillance reform bill that would effectively end the NSA’s bulk collectio...

Unraveling Comcast Merger Exposes Weaknesses In Its Powerful Lobbying Arm

Comcast spent $4.62 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2015 , an increase of 50 percent from its spending in the same quarter las...

House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Information-Sharing Bill

The House of Representatives today passed The Protecting Cyber Networks Act on a   307-116 bipartisan vote .  The bill aims to remove lega...

Google’s Encryption Efforts Are Paying Off In Wake Of Snowden Leaks

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the company has evidence that its efforts to improve encryption in the wake of Edward Snow...

Lawsuit Calls FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules “Arbitrary” And “Capricious”

As expected, the FCC’s recently passed net neutrality regulations came under fresh legal fire today. USTelecom , a telecommunications-focus...

Phone Surveillance Revelation Should Prompt Reassessment Of NSA Spying

Does evidence of a decades-old surveillance program throw out the case many public officials have made for the modern surveillance state? ...

John Oliver Just Changed The Surveillance Reform Debate

Remember Edward Snowden? For many Americans who talked to John Oliver on Last Week Tonight , the answer is no. It’s been almost two yea...

Brace Yourselves, The Net Neutrality Legal Challenges Are Coming

On Wednesday afternoon the Federal Communications Commission filed its net neutrality order to the Federal Register, an FCC official conf...

Chairman Wheeler Predicts FCC Will Beat Legal Challenge To Net Neutrality

Now that the FCC is the subject of several lawsuits , and its leader, Chairman Tom Wheeler, was dragged in front of Congress repeatedly t...

Google Blasts Media Implications That It Runs That Town

Google, a search company, fired back today at a string of reports published in the Wall Street Journal over the past few weeks that have ...

FTC Pushes Back Against Criticism Of Its Inquiry Into Google’s Search Practices

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a comment today pushing against a rising media narrative that it may have gone too easy on Goo...

Tech Giants Call For “Clear, Strong And Effective End” To NSA’s Phone Metadata Surveillance

As expected, technology companies, tech trade groups and privacy organizations sent a letter  today to the President Barack Obama, various...

Political Pressure To Pass CISA Quickly Could Pose ‘Big Problem’ For Civil Liberties

For years lawmakers and civil liberties advocates have sparred over cybersecurity legislation that would allow companies to share informa...

The Net Neutrality Drama Train Heads To Congress

Let’s presume for the moment that you did not awake early this morning, straining to tune into C-SPAN, excited to watch a nearly three-ho...

The Net Neutrality Drinking Game

The FCC is about to be taken out back by Congress for a quick word. The independent federal agency’s recent vote to pass new net neutra...

Senator Rand Paul Courts Tech’s Support For His Likely 2016 Run At SXSW

Trying to make the case that he is the tech community’s candidate in 2016, Senator Rand Paul took the stage at SXSW this weekend to discus...