Us Senate articles

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  Senators propose bill to declassify orders behind NSA spying

  By Carl Franzen on June 11, 2013 11:56 am + 68 comments

  A bipartisan group of eight prominent US senators announced a new bill today to declassify the court Continue reading…

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  Tim Cook defends Apple's overseas cash: 'I'm not an unfair person, that's not who we are as a company'

  By Carl Franzen on May 21, 2013 12:42 pm + 60 comments

  Apple CEO Tim Cook and several other executives were not shaken by inquiries from the US Senate over Continue reading…

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  Senators blast Apple in hearing for keeping most profits overseas

  By Carl Franzen on May 21, 2013 11:38 am + 170 comments

  Leaders of a US Senate subcommittee looking into Apple's offshore cash holdings of over $100 billion Continue reading…

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  Buried in immigration reform bill, a plan to create a national photo database

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 10, 2013 04:07 pm + 44 comments

  The immigration reform bill currently sitting in the Senate is huge: it's more than 800 pages long, Continue reading…

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  Proposed immigration bill could stem Silicon Valley's brain drain

  By Amar Toor on April 16, 2013 04:41 am + 32 comments

  A bipartisan group of US senators this week is expected to unveil a sweeping immigration bill that Continue reading…

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  US Senate votes in favor of proposed nationwide internet sales taxes

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 23, 2013 11:36 am + 181 comments

  Senators have voted 75-to-24 in favor of nationwide changes that would see sales tax levied on a Continue reading…

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  Privacy laws can't handle new wave of commercial drones, Senate hearing concludes

  By Carl Franzen on March 20, 2013 04:40 pm + 10 comments

  National privacy laws aren't ready to handle the 10,000 commercial drones predicted to be flying Continue reading…

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  Bin Laden movie 'Zero Dark Thirty' slammed by senators for 'grossly inaccurate' torture scenes

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 20, 2012 05:22 am + 107 comments

  Members of the Senate have called Zero Dark Thirty, Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigalow's Continue reading…

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  Senator Al Franken backs Cybersecurity Act, proposes stricter guidelines for surveillance

  By Adi Robertson on July 26, 2012 05:43 pm + 17 comments

  Noted privacy and net neutrality advocate Senator Al Franken has urged the Senate to debate a Continue reading…

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  Windows RT browser exclusion draws attention from European, US regulators

  By Amar Toor on May 16, 2012 03:50 am + 137 comments

  The European Commission this week announced that it will be keeping a close eye on Microsoft's W Continue reading…