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Op-ed: We’d be crippled by a cyberattack on our utilities (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/15/2018 - 16:46The US needs a law that requires companies to disclose data breaches quickly, cybersecurity experts say (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/15/2018 - 10:11Op-Ed: The strategic threat to U.S. tech companies (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 12:36
Here’s how the FCC plans to defend its net neutrality repeal in federal court (updated)
The Federal Communications Commission told the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that it acted properly when it repealed the US government’s net neutrality rules in 2017, marking its first legal salvo in a campaign to battle back 22 states and tech companies including Mozilla, Facebook, and Google that contend the agency’s move was illegal. The FCC said it was perfectly within its right to rethink how it regulated those internet service providers, citing a landmark Supreme Court decision outlining the agency’s powers from 2005.
Editorial: The Google+ bug poses a problem only Congress can solve (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 06:43Georgia voter registrations being held reinforces black Americans’ fears about voting rights (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 06:34Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit
Facebook said that it has purged more than 800 US publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically oriented content that violated the company’s spam policies, a move that could reignite accusations of political censorship. The accounts and pages, with names such as Reasonable People Unite and Reverb Press, were probably domestic actors using clickbait headlines and other spammy tactics to drive users to websites where they could target them with ads, the company said.