Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again)
It’s the second extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 10 days, and a regular ritual for the Hill.
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A new bill renames the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 and would make its legal protections retroactive after its lapse.
Senators, witnesses: $3B for ‘rip and replace’ a good start to preventing Salt Typhoon-style breaches
The annual defense spending bill contains money the FCC has sought to use to reimburse telecommunications carriers for removing Chinese equipment.
Trio of South Dakota politicians set to have bigger roles on cybersecurity
The little-populated state is seeing its governor and two senators move into key positions to influence cyber policy.
FTC nominees urge Congress to pass federal data privacy law
Members of Congress also asked nominees for their thoughts on how the FTC should tackle AI.
With workforce in mind, bipartisan bill proposes incentives for cybersecurity education, and more
The HACKED Act is the work of the top Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee.
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Slow disclosure of Google+ flaw draws attention of senators
Republican senators have written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding to know why the company was reportedly slow to disclose a software flaw in its Google+ social…
Senators question vulnerability disclosure process after Spectre and Meltdown stumbles
U.S. senators expressed concern that shortcomings in the industry-led process for disclosing software and hardware bugs could rear their head again.