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November 19, 2014
CCIA Disappointed With USA FREEDOM Act Vote
The Senate fell two votes short Tuesday evening in its attempt to bring the USA FREEDOM Act to the floor for debate. The Computer & Communications Industry Association is disappointed to see yet...
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November 18, 2014
CCIA: Extend U.S. Privacy Protections to Europeans
Brussels -- Relations between the world’s two biggest trading blocs, the European Union (EU) and the United States, remain strained more than a year after the first revelations by Edward Snowden.
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November 13, 2014
Senate Preparing to Take Up Surveillance Reform in USA FREEDOM Act of 2014
Washington – The Senate has taken a step towards meaningful surveillance reform in the final weeks of the 113th Congress, after the Senate moved closer to a vote on the USA FREEDOM Act.
The biparti...
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November 13, 2014
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
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November 13, 2014
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
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November 12, 2014
Wall Street Journal Open Internet Reporter Has a Grip; Editorial and Opinion Pages — Not So Much
If the FCC ends up deferring to common sense and classifies landline Internet access as a telecommunications service, most advocates for that move support use of only a few core provisions of Title II...
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November 10, 2014
CCIA Praises President’s Support For Open Internet Via Title II
Washington - President Obama released a statement today that strongly supports the reclassification of broadband access as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. Th...
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November 7, 2014
Government Seeks Expanded Hacking Ability in Criminal Investigations
Wednesday the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts held a small public hearing about a proposed change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Crimi...
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November 5, 2014
New EU Cyber Security Directive should focus on protection of truly critical infrastructure
The European Parliament’s vote from March 2014 correctly improved the scope of the Network and Information Directive by focusing on truly critical infrastructure such as the energy, banking, and tra...
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November 4, 2014
FBI Seeks Even Broader Surveillance Power From Judicial Advisory Committee
Washington – The FBI’s request to significantly expand the government’s power to remotely search stored electronic data is the subject of a hearing before the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rule...
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November 3, 2014
CCIA Joins Letter Asking Congress To Increase MLAT Funding
CCIA joined today with several other trade associations in sending a letter urging Congressional leadership to support additional funding for processes related to the United States' many bilateral Mut...