TechBytes

Privacy advocates who enjoy focusing on issues like browser cookies, behavioral advertising, database privacy and deep packet inspection can just throw in the towel if anything approaching HR 3200, the current draft of the health care bill in the House of Representatives, becomes law.

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Back in April, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, supported a law which was passed by parliament creating a policing group which would track those who were illegally downloading copyrighted material—in other words, those who were committing piracy, and empowered that group to eventually cut off the criminal’s access to the Internet if they continued their illegal ways.

A common theme in science fiction literature and movies is technology run wild.

Back in 2006, a United States Court of Appeals issued a permanent injunction against EchoStar Communications for illegally retransmitting local broadcast network signals—allowing virtually anyone who asked to receive local signals through their DISH Network subscription.

Should the federal government have the power to monitor and control Internet traffic to make sure that our critical cyber-infrastructure is not harmed? New legislation seems to think so.

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In the midst of rising taxes across the country, including new taxes that are driving companies out of some states a few politicians are trying to end the century-old practice of loading up communications with a heavy, discriminatory and disproportionate tax burden.

The drive for new, more efficient, renewable “green tech” is real this time.

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