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Maryland Law Protects Social Networking Passwords

Kenneth Artz
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July 09, 2012
Maryland has become the first state to enact a law prohibiting employers from requesting or requiring that an applicant or employee disclose a user name or password to personal social media sites.

FCC Allocates MBAN Spectrum

Phil Britt
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July 06, 2012
The Federal Communications Commission has established service rules for the world's first spectrum allocation for Medical Body Area Networks.

Appeals Court Affirms Limits on Debt-Collection Robocalls

Phil Britt
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July 04, 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled companies employing automatic dialing technology must receive the consent of cell-phone subscribers before attempting to contact them.

FCC Extends Cable ‘Viewability’ Rule

Phil Britt
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July 03, 2012
Under an order adopted unanimously by the Federal Communications Commission, all cable companies with hybrid, digital-analog systems must continue carrying stations' analog signals until Dec.

Senator Calls for DOJ SWAT-ting Inquiry

Lindsey Dodge
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July 02, 2012
Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has requested a federal inquiry into the practice known as SWAT-ting, after several conservative bloggers reported they were victims of it.

DISH AutoHop Sparks Network Lawsuits

Alyssa Carducci
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June 29, 2012
DISH Network’s “AutoHop” technology feature has prompted lawsuits from the ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC TV networks.

IT Poses Stumbling Block for ACA Implementation

Bruce Edward Walker
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June 28, 2012
While policymakers and health care and legal analysts debate the constitutionality of U.S.

Nation’s Big-Five Cable Companies to Share Wi-Fi Hotspots

Alyssa Carducci
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June 27, 2012
Five cable companies will team up to enable each other’s high-speed Internet customers to access their wi-fi networks.

San Francisco Steps Up Transit Surveillance

Tom Gantert
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June 26, 2012
San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Authority has announced it will deploy 288 surveillance cameras equipped with special software to monitor suspicious behavior in the city’s buses, trains, and 12 t

Government Responsible for Bad TV

S.T. Karnick
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June 25, 2012
Writing in The American Spectator, author and cultural critic Daniel Flynn explains that cable and satellite TV subscribership is decreasing because of the awfulness of the programming, pa
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