Enlarge / Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is the co-sponsor of the SMART Copyright Act. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Two senators have introduced legislation that would give the US Copyright Office power to mandate the adoption of anti-piracy technology across the Internet. Websites that failed to comply would face damages as high as $150,000 on the […]
Expand / A guy walks with the umbrella Outside AT&T corporate headquarters at March 13, 2020, at Dallas, Texas. AT&T kindly told the US authorities that it fulfilled its duty to deploy broadband in greater than 133,000 places in Mississippi, state officials say. Because 2015, AT&T has obtained over $283 million in the Federal Communications […]
Enlarge / Uberwachung, Symbolbild, Datensicherheit, Datenhoheit (credit: Westend61 | Getty Images) Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake. But new research indicates governments already have methods and tools that, […]