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The U.S. Helsinki Commission, also known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, hosted a briefing on how smugglers use the internet to traffic opioids and counterfeit…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Microsoft Corporation, a case dealing with warrant compliance and email contents stored abroad. The federal government got a…

Legal scholars and attorneys debated the implications of a South Dakota law imposing sales tax on out-of-state internet businesses with no physical presence in the state. The Supreme Court…

New America’s Open Technology Institute hosted a discussion on Facebook’s data and privacy practices following allegations that U.K. firm Cambridge Analytica misused miliions of Facebook…

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Jeanette Manfra, Kathryn Condello of CenturyLink, Zello’s Bill Moore, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Strayer, and Sanja Kelly of Freedom House, spoke…

Former Justice and Defense Department officials from the Obama and George W. Bush administrations spoke about the potential for Russia and other foreign adversaries to hack U.S. elections.…

Justice Department officials and international law attorneys discussed the pros and cons of the newly passed Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD) Act for data providers and…

NCTA President Michael Powell talked about privacy issues raised when data of 50 million Facebook users was taken by Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump’s 2016…

Election system vulnerabilities were the focus of a discussion at a conference on hacking and voting technology. The registrars of voters for Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California shared…

Michael Farren talked about the recent pedestrian death by a self-driving car and the future of autonomous vehicles.

Justice Department officials talked about privacy, the law, and government surveillance at the International Association of Privacy Professionals 2018 global privacy summit. They focused on…

Tony Romm and Li Zhou talked about data privacy in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica fallout.

Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), the chief sponsor of a bipartisan online sex trafficking prosecution bill, led a colloquy among the bill’s chief supporters. H.R.1865, the Allow States and…

Senator Wyden (D-OR) talked about his amendments to H..R.1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. The bill would make websites accountable for facilitating…

Jimmy Soni talked about digital pioneer Claude Shannon. Mr. Shannon’s research on communications and information theory influenced decades of communications including telegraphy, telephony,…

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment held a hearing to examine the growth of virtual currencies and the markets they are traded in. A…

In this portion of the American Conservative Union annual conference, Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai and FCC Commissioners Michael O’Rielly (R) and Brendan Carr (R) talked about rural broadband access,…

Part 4 of “The Communicators” at the Consumer Electronics Association 2018 Technology Show focused on the latest in televisions, 5G, and digital media. Among those interviewed were Tim Alessi of LG,…

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile talked about her book Hacks, in which she offers her thoughts on the state of the Democratic Party in the wake of Russia’s hacking…

The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing onvirtual currencies. The chairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading…