Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
Determined to act swiftly to pass an $825 billion stimulus package, US President Barack Obama used his weekly address (on a revamped whitehouse.gov website) to give more details about this recovery plan. As it stands now, the proposal includes public spending programs in three high-tech areas :
computerization of medical records;
creation of smarter, high-tech enhanced electrical [...]
Filed under: Analysis, Challenges, New Tech, Politics | 2 Comments
Tags: Congress, Crisis, European Commission, European Union, France, Internet, New Tech, Obama, Politics, Reforms, Three Strikes, UK
Things are moving forward on the privacy front.
In April, the so-called “Group 29”, an advisory body to the European Commission on privacy and public liberties matters, issued a memo in which it analyzed the activity of data-mining internet companies. More specifically, it sought to establish whether they respected the European regulatory framework which is composed [...]
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Tags: Congress, European Union, Google, Web, Yahoo
a diary about how new technologies redefine the polis by felix treguer
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News from the Wired Polis- File-Sharing good for cultural diversity and business November 11, 2009
- Enforcement of IPR... ACTA not the way to go November 6, 2009
- Europe misses out on a full protection of Net freedoms November 5, 2009
- Telcos turned into the police of the Net? November 4, 2009
- New battle fronts in sight for Net neutrality November 2, 2009
- More spectrum for wireless Internet in Europe? October 31, 2009
- EU to overhaul online privacy rules October 27, 2009
