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...