Washington — In a spirited bipartisan late night defense of the 4th Amendment, Reps Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky and Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California offerred an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would restore provisions of the recently passed USA Freedom Act that prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans by the NSA. Rep. Massie explained that,…
Two House and Senate Judiciary committee leaders on privacy issues have introduced legislation to add transparency requirements to the law used by the NSA to carry out surveillance on Americans. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., has introduced the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., “The Surveillance Order Reporting Act.” Both bills give companies who receive data demands from the government the…
Women and the Arts on Tuesday. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Sen. Ron Wyden and ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade spoke in between videos depicting CCIA’s 40 year history. CCIA was started by seven small to mid-sized companies who were trying to compete with IBM. Chehade said those like CCIA who are doing all they can to advocate…
Internet freedom is certainly a human rights imperative, but it is also an economic one. Last week, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren introduced legislation to combat trade barriers that threaten the global open Internet. Along with other Congressional representatives from California, Reps Eshoo, Honda and Matsui, Lofgren proposes to create a Task Force on the Global Internet…
As the first anniversary of the January 18, 2012 SOPA blackouts approaches, and with a new session of Congress starting, there has been an increase in the usual pieces looking at the impact of the monumental anti-SOPA effort on future policymaking regarding the Internet and copyright. Some of the recent articles include a piece in The Hill, another in…
A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is offering draft legislation as an alternative to a controversial bill to censor and regulate the Internet known as the Stopping Online Piracy Act in the House and PROTECT IP Act in the Senate. House members including Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., have released a new…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) applauds Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) and lead Democratic co-sponsor Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) for introducing the “Supporting the Preservation of Internet Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses” resolution (H.Res. 95), a bipartisan resolution opposing any Congressional legislation granting state governments authority to impose new burdensome or unfair tax collecting requirements on small…
A bill that would have led to more Internet censorship is on ice — thanks to a hold placed on it by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), S.3804, will no longer have the smooth ride this session the content industries wanted. Although the bill passed the Senate Judiciary last week…
Senator McConnell announced last Thursday that he’s resolved to stop any and all legislative initiatives supported by the White House and/or the Democratic Majority in the Senate. Current House Minority Leader John Boehner, however, has expressed an interest in working with the President and across the aisle in Congress on the chief priority identified by…
