FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Frustrated by privacy lapses by US companies, Democrat Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has introduced proposed federal legislation referred to as the Mind Your Own Business Act (the Act). If enacted, this law could put serious teeth into […]
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced on Friday the first of many federal investments targeting the creation of critical broadband internet infrastructure in underserved rural areas across the country. Perdue visited the West Tennessee city of Halls to announce a $2.85 million grant to improve broadband internet connectivity for 347 households and one community facility
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You can now stay up to date on everything you need to know about the Canadian federal election with the help of Alexa. The voice-assistant will be getting Canadians “up to speed with developments on the campaign trail, or will test their own knowledge of elections in Canada,” according to Amazon. Alexa will help voters
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22 female entrepreneurs from across the U.S. met in Washington D.C. last week at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Roundtable, hosted by the newly created bipartisan U.S. Senate Caucus on Entrepreneurship. (Center for American Entrepreneurship Photo) Only 2.5 percent of venture capital funding goes to companies with all-female founders. As a female entrepreneur, I find this extremely
A Tesla booth stands at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Chiba, Japan, on Oct. 4, 2016. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News) Faiz Siddiqui San Francisco-based tech reporter covering automation and the future of transportation, including Tesla, Uber and Lyft September 27 at 9:06 PM SAN FRANCISCO — A judge ruled Friday that Tesla and its
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The federal government sets aside some of its federal contracts for women business owners. Is your business ready to compete for them? For six years in a row, the federal government has achieved a goal set way back in the 1990s of awarding a minimum of 25% of all federal contracts to small businesses. That’s
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On a Friday afternoon in late July, a crowd of techies, military types and a few civilians deployed to the new Irvine headquarters of Anduril Industries, a defense tech start-up, to sip hibiscus margaritas and admire the sensor towers and carbon-fiber drones on display. Dave Brubeck tinkled over the sound system, and the dress code
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the non-profit organization that oversees all .ca domain names, published its new vision for the future internet in Canada. “We believe strongly that the future of the internet and the future of Canada are inextricably linked,” said Byron Holland, CIRA president, in a statement. “We believe that the internet
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(Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News) Google said Friday that the Justice Department has requested records related to its prior antitrust investigations, marking the tech giant’s first major acknowledgment that it’s a subject of a federal competition probe. The civil-investigative demand — acknowledged in a securities filing and a blog post — comes weeks after Justice Department officials
Small businesses face considerable challenges. These include everything from natural and man-made disasters to burdensome regulations. You could be talking about a hurricane, cyber-attack or a regulation so demanding it discourages entrepreneurs. The result remains the same. They stop small businesses from running their companies and being efficient. Government leaders wanted to eliminate or reduce
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