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Kamala Harris wants to bring the US Digital Service to local governments, with a $65M budget

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), who has already announced her presidential campaign, has introduced a bill that would double down on one of the rare successful tech upgrade programs in the government today: the U.S. Digital Service. Ultimately she wants this quietly effective program to go from federal to state and local level, and command a much larger $65 million yearly budget.

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Instead of Larry Page, Google sends written testimony to tech’s Senate hearing

sudshr47 September 4, 2018

Silicon Valley is about to have another big moment before Congress. On Wednesday, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee to follow-up on their work investigating (and hopefully thwarting) Russian government-linked campaigns to sow political division in the US. The hearing is titled “Foreign Influence Operations and Their […]

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Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018

sudshr47 July 27, 2018

A Democratic senator seeking reelection this fall appears to be the first identifiable target of Russian hacking in the 2018 midterm race. In a new story on the Daily Beast, Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen reported that Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill was targeted in a campaign-related phishing attack. That clears up one unspecified target […]

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Democrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory audits

sudshr47 June 13, 2018

As primaries ramp up in states across the U.S., concerns about election cybersecurity are mounting too. This week, a group of Democratic senators introduced a bill to mitigate some of the well-established risks that the nation’s uneven mix of voting machines and election systems poses. The new bill, known as the Protecting American Votes and […]

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A literal Russian troll is lurking at the Zuckerberg hearing

sudshr47 April 10, 2018

Today at Mark Zuckerberg’s first of two hearings with Congress, the meme maker formerly known as the Monopoly Man made a surprise cameo in troll form to troll the Facebook founder. Spotted at the Zuckerberg hearing. https://t.co/WhgAkAhJ9Z #troll pic.twitter.com/AezMFsFbYo — Dan Linden (@DanLinden) April 10, 2018 The Monopoly Man, a.k.a. Amanda Werner, made their first […]

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Twitter endorses the Honest Ads Act, a bill promoting political ad transparency

sudshr47 April 10, 2018

Just hours before social media companies face a regulatory reckoning with Facebook’s appearance on the Hill, Twitter is taking a step to get right with Congress. In a series of tweets from its public policy account, Twitter just announced its decision to back the Honest Ads Act, a piece of legislation introduced last year as […]

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Senator warns Facebook better shape up or get ‘broken up’

sudshr47 April 7, 2018

In the run-up to Mark Zuckerberg’s first appearance before Congress, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden issued a warning to the company about what it can expect from lawmakers if it doesn’t radically alter course. “Mr. Zuckerberg is going to have a couple of very unpleasant days before Congress next week and that’s the place to start,” […]

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To protect election systems from hacking, states are getting cozier with Homeland Security

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

It might be a snow day in Washington, but the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on election system security continued as planned. During Wednesday’s hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and her predecessor Jeh Johnson appeared with a panel of state election officials to hash out the recommendations issued by the committee on Tuesday. “This issue […]

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Senate Intel Committee gives Homeland Security its election security wish list

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

In a press conference today, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence presented its urgent recommendations for protecting election systems as the U.S. moves toward midterm elections later this year. “Currently we have an election upon us, and the past tells us that the future will probably hold another set of threats if we are not […]

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In a close vote, the Senate ends debate on warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens

sudshr47 January 17, 2018

On Tuesday, the Senate undertook a cloture vote to end debate on a bill that would renew a controversial legal loophole that provides U.S. intelligence agencies with a means for the warrantless surveillance of American citizens. With 60 for and 3…