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UK Cookie Regulations Threaten Online Business
The European Commission recently enacted a new directive that went into force last Thursday night and would strongly regulate the circumstances under which web cookies can be placed on users' computers. Cookies are small pieces of text that are stored on the user's computer and are transmitted back to the website that placed it whenever the user visits again. Cookies are fantastically useful, because they are the best way for a website to remember who you are from one page refresh to another. They enable sites like Amazon or a webmail provider to to keep you logged in as you use the service over time. They can also be controversial, however, because they allow the tracking across the web that leads to online targeted advertising.
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Posted By Ross Schulman | 5/31/2011 5:02:31 PM
 
CCIA Supports Digital Goods Tax Fairness Act
On May 23, the House Judiciary Committee’s Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1860, the Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act.  The bill would establish a national framework for how state and local taxes apply to digital goods and digital services so as to prevent multiple and discriminatory taxation.  CCIA supports the bill as a way to provide certainty and fairness to the growing digital marketplace and to stop, what is in effect, the punitive taxation of innovation. 
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Posted By Ken Kurokawa | 5/24/2011 2:50:19 PM
 
Administration Releases Cybersecurity Legislative Recommendations
Top officials from the DOJ, Commerce, DHS and DOD briefed Senate committee staffers this week on the White House's long awaited cybersecurity legislative proposal unveiled last week.
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Posted By Phillip Berenbroick | 5/19/2011 5:07:51 PM
 
Senators Reintroduce COICA Under New Name, Same Controversial Internet Censorship Directives
Today, the blogosphere has lit up with controversy as the Bill Formerly Known As COICA was reintroduced in the Senate, sporting a new coat of paint and a freshly minted backronym: “the PROTECTIP Act.”  TechDirt, Public Knowledge, Prof. Wendy Seltzer, the Technology Liberation Front, CDT, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have all weighed in with a variety of concerns.  CCIA’s statement is here.
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Posted By Matt Schruers | 5/12/2011 6:43:28 PM
 
Privacy Circus This Week On Capitol Hill
Two new pieces of privacy legislation and a hearing are keeping Congress busy this week, while the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office just released a new set of rules for the use of cookies by websites.
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Posted By Ross Schulman | 5/11/2011 6:16:19 PM
 
Consumer, Business Associations Oppose AT&T Merger
Consumer and business groups voiced their opposition to the AT&T merger proposal a day ahead of a hearing on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” will be webcast.
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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 5/10/2011 10:28:18 PM
 
2 + 4 = 1 Congested Wireless Network
AT&T already owns more wireless spectrum than any other mobile carrier.  It also has the worst network.  Now AT&T is attempting to acquire T-Mobile's spectrum. 

CCIA wonders how the wireless industry can keep growing and innovating if its least competent, least efficient, and least innovative user of spectrum owns such a disproportionate amount of this vital resource.


             

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Posted By Phillip Berenbroick | 5/3/2011 3:34:41 PM
 
 
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