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Tech at Night: House passes key FCC reform, House and Senate SECURE IT bills...
FCC reform advances in the House. Greg Walden’s FCC Process Reform Act is a needed bill, so I’m glad that it went from committee to the floor, and took minimal modification in passing. I like that it...
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Tech at Night: CISPA is a distraction from Lieberman-Collins
How harmless is CISPA? Despite irrational attacks by association, because we’re apparently supposed to think Republican bills bad, even though the Democrats in the Senate had kept PROTECT IP alive...
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Tech at Night: Jim DeMint vs favored broadcasters, CISPA vs Lieberman-Collins
What’s the ideal situation for the cable television marketplace? A free market. Cable providers should be able to negotiate, or not, with broadcasters and copyright holders to purchase streams to...
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Tech at Night: Q&A with with Steve Scalise on Retransmission Consent; Snyder...
I know many RedState readers are big fans of Jim DeMint, so in my coverage of the Retransmission Consent debate, I’ve focused on him. However he’s not the whole story. This Congress, due to the TEA...
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Tech at Night: Government, not Facebook, is the real privacy threat, FCC...
Privacy? You want privacy in the digital age? Start by repealing campaign finance laws before you wag your socialist finger at the private sector. Al Qaeda also denied 9/11 involvement at first, but...
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Tech at Night: Lieberman-Collins is dangerously wrong, Republican Governors...
Right now the top issues are both getting lots of attention in the Senate. One is the cybersecurity bill. It’s been difficult for me to find out much about what’s going on with it, and it turns out...
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Tech at Night: Google punished for hacking Safari Do Not Track, Microsoft...
So the FTC is on a tear. Google is officially smacked for $22.5 million for hacking though Safari’s privacy protections to sell Safari users’ information to advertisers. Then Facebook got whacked for...
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Tech at Night: FTC slays the Myspace Beast; Obama planning rule by decree on...
It is done! Privacy is saved in America? The huge looming threat of Myspace has been defeated by FTC! Don’t you feel so much safer now that the dynamic, active regulators of the Obama administration...
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Tech at Night: WiFi relief for big conferences on the way. Tech lobbying arms...
For once I have some good news from FCC. The FCC is going to find some more spectrum to allocate for WiFi as unlicensed use. The idea is that everyone knows large events tend to have serious WiFi...
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Tech at Night: ECPA email bill and MFA sales tax bill appear to have Senate...
Some legislative action still ongoing: the Senate looking to fix the ECPA, an email search law that was written to the technology of the time, and now defies the expectations of its framers. I was...
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Tech at Night: Keep government from micromanaging, to prevent the next ECPA...
Unnecessary legislation watch: House Democrats (and a Republican) want to meddle in the matter of employer access to Facebook. Sure, a lot of people aren’t smart about Facebook, but that’s no good...
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Tech at Night: Google hates your privacy, and EU regulators hate American...
So Edward Snowden is getting charged with spying. Note that this development in itself is not an affirmation of any particular element of what he ‘leaked.’ Parts may be true, parts many not be. For...
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Tech at Night: The Grand Return
So I’ve been gone a while. Sorry about that. After Summer Games Done Quick and the Redstate Gathering, I was supposed to be back in action. But a case of the shingles took me down fast. I was a...
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Tech at Night: Bradley Manning only gets 35 years
So, the top story is of course that anti-American anarchist hero Bradley Manning got 35 years. The bad news is with parole he could apparently be out in 10. The hacker of “Palestine” who broke into...
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Tech at Night: More Net Neutrality. The FCC we have, not the one we deserve.
More Net Neutrality! With the oral arguments having happened, people are chewing on what happened. Some are confident the FCC will lose, which is unsurprising since they’ve lost on this before. Hence...
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Tech at Night: No, people still don’t care about privacy. The FCC attacks...
If you’re really that worried about Dropbox “opening your files” as these guys on a wild goose chase were, then why exactly are you uploading them unencrypted to Dropbox to begin with? This is what...
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Tech at Night: DMCA reform should be balanced and not favor one side. Obama...
Gotta love it when the left uncritically regurgitates Sprint’s misleading talking points when they’d be having a hysterical screaming fit in the event I did the same to support my views. Sadly I was...
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Tech at Night: Commissioner O’Rielly makes a great point on reform. Tor users...
FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly makes a great point about how to approach FCC and Communications Act reform. Assume regulators will abuse it and write defensively. Yet another Tor child pornography...
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Tech at Night: Snowden allies like China not quite getting their way on NSA....
So the House ended up passing the (originally anti-NSA, pro-Russian-and-Chinese) “USA Freedom Act”. But fortunately the radicals are mad about it because of the compromises needed to win enough votes...
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Tech at Night: No privacy regulation until we see evidence people want any.
We missed Tech on Monday because of Memorial Day, but I was sick anyway so it wasn’t happening. Still getting over my cold though, so this tech is about 2 hours late. Here’s your periodic reminder...
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