Court OKs immunity for telecoms in wiretap case
A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.
A federal appeals court has ruled as constitutional a law giving telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program.
Telecom
Dec 30, 2011
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The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their ...
Telecom
Nov 8, 2011
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Verizon Communications, the largest U.S. cell phone carrier, is suing to overturn new government regulations governing the flow of Internet traffic.
Telecom
Oct 1, 2011
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A federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid by Apple to immediately stop Amazon.com from calling its online shop for smartphone programs an "App Store."
Business
Jul 7, 2011
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(AP) -- The Supreme Court has added a couple of high-profile constitutional challenges to its lineup of cases for next term: One looking at governmental regulation of television content and the other dealing with the authority ...
Telecom
Jun 28, 2011
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A federal appeals court has dismissed two legal challenges to new Federal Communications Commission regulations that prohibit phone and cable companies from interfering with Internet traffic on their broadband networks.
Telecom
Apr 4, 2011
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Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
Telecom
Jan 20, 2011
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(AP) -- A federal appeals court Friday granted Dish Network Corp. a full-court review of a ruling that threatened to force the satellite TV company to disable millions of its customers' digital video recorders because of ...
Business
May 14, 2010
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(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it intends to move forward quickly with key recommendations in its national broadband plan - even though a federal appeals court this week undermined the agency's ...
Telecom
Apr 8, 2010
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(AP) -- Should the government be allowed to track a person's movements based on cell phone records, without evidence of criminal wrongdoing?
Telecom
Feb 12, 2010
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