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| Aug 13, 2026 | Ad Auctions Feed Warrantless Government Surveillance: New Tool Maps Pipeline | By Roger Satterfield Published: Aug 13 2026, 9:05 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Khanna Data Center Bill of Rights: Communities Get Congress’s Backing, Not Its Law | By Ryan Cook Published: Aug 07 2026, 4:43 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 4, 2026 | SEC Secretly Bought Global Airline Records to Track Suspects Without a Warrant | By Collin Mercer Published: Aug 04 2026, 2:06 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 23, 2026 | CBP Can Rifle Through Your Phone by Hand at the Border: No Suspicion Required | By Jonathan Tseng Published: Jul 23 2026, 7:18 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Wyden And Cruz Team Up On A Bill To Stop Government Jawboning. It’s… Actually Pretty Good? | Senators Ron Wyden and Ted Cruz have released the JAWBONE Act (“Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act”) as a way to prevent government suppression of speech. While some of the premises behind it are s... |
| May 19, 2026 | Senator Wyden Again Tells Trump Administration It Owes The Public Access To A Section 702 Ruling | Section 702 surveillance powers are still limping along, mostly unimpeded, despite on-again/off-again objections by federal politicians. More active recently have been several GOP politicians. These representatives are newly opposed to clea... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Grok AI Deepfake Scandal Triggers Apple App Store Scrutiny Over xAI Content Controls | By Jose Enrico Published: Apr 16 2026, 09:50 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Administration Apparently Planning To Blow Off FISA Court’s Ordered Fixes For Section 702 | It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and other IC components’) access to Americans’ communica... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance | This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA leadership earlier this year: Few people are capable of saying so much ... |
| Mar 27, 2026 | FBI Tells Senate It’s Still Bypassing 4th Amendment By Purchasing Location Data From Third Parties | In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that warrants were needed to obtain cell site location info (CSLI). That decision dealt with law enforcement’s warrantless acquisition of 127 days of location data from a cell service provider. As the court ... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here’s What We Need to Do. | We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You’re right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly tr... |
| Mar 12, 2026 | The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702 | Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you’ve followed Wyden’s career, you know this is not a man pr... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | The Wyden Siren: Senator’s Cryptic CIA Letter Follows A Pattern That’s Never Been Wrong | If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you’ve likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will occasionally send a public letter that essentially says ... |
| Jan 9, 2026 | X, Grok Takedown: Senators Ask Apple, Google to Remove Apps Due to 'Sickening' Content Generation | By Isaiah Richard Published: Jan 09 2026, 20:15 PM EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jan 9, 2026 | Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say | Three Democratic senators called on Apple and Google to suspend Elon Musk’s Grok and X apps from their stores. X and Grok, both owned by xAI, have recently enabled users to easily create and share sexualized images of minors using the AI im... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Senators Want To Hold The Open Internet Hostage, Demand Zuckerberg Write The Ransom Note | Not this shit again. A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floated the same idea: they have no actual plan fo... |
| Nov 17, 2025 | License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People | More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, according to ... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | Senator Wyden Slams U.S. Judiciary For Incompetent, Nontransparent Cybersecurity Practices | Late last year, eight major U.S. telecoms were the victim of a massive intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent a year rooting ... |
| Aug 19, 2025 | UK Has Dropped Apple Backdoor Request, US Spy Chief Says | US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr The UK has withdrawn its demand for Apple to create a backdoor into its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) encryption system. US Director of National Intelligence T... |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Trump ‘soft, weak and afraid’ in firing labor statistics chief McEntarfer: Wyden | Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon called President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer “the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inf... |
| Jun 14, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: June 8th – 14th | Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Don Henley was using TikTok as a reason to push for stronger copyright laws, while some Senators were asking the FCC to reinterpret Section 230 in a ridiculous manner, and Ron Wyden was explaining how Trump... |
| Jun 13, 2025 | The IRS Under Fire: Billy Long's Controversial Confirmation and Its Implications | The confirmation of Billy Long as the new IRS Commissioner has stirred a pot of controversy. Once a congressman who sought to abolish the very agency he now leads, Long's appointment raises eyebrows and questions about the future of tax adm... |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Ex-congressman Billy Long confirmed as commissioner of the IRS, an agency he once sought to abolish | After leaving Congress to mount an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate, Long worked with a firm that distributed the pandemic-era employee retention tax credit. That tax credit program was eventually shut down after then-IRS Commissioner D... |
| May 29, 2025 | Senator Wyden: U.S. Wireless Carriers Fail Utterly To Inform Consumers (Or Senators) About Government Surveillance | U.S. wireless providers are, it should go without saying, very shitty when it comes to consumer privacy and security. After decades of mindless deregulation and competition-killing consolidation, there’s less serious regulatory oversight or... |
| Mar 17, 2025 | US Lawmakers Join Transparency Call for Apple Encryption Case | Legislators in the US are calling on the UK for transparency surrounding the ongoing legal issues between the UK Home Office and Apple over encryption. Five members of the US legislature have penned a letter to the UK Investigatory Powers T... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Ron Wyden Presses FTC For Disclosure Rules On Ownership Rights Of Digital Purchases | We talk a lot here about the concept of “ownership” of what we spend money on, particularly as it relates to purchases that are digital or have some reliance on internet connectivity. Despite being related, those two categories are actually... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | The Trump Agenda: A Tug-of-War in Washington | The political landscape in Washington is a battlefield. The air is thick with tension as the House GOP pushes forward with a plan that could reshape the American economy. The stakes are high, and the players are familiar. Donald Trump, the ... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | National Politics | What’s next for Trump agenda after House GOP approves tax breaks and slashed spending in budget | “We have a lot of hard work ahead of us,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said after the late Tuesday vote.Related Articles National Politics | Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce National Politics | Hundreds of w... |
| Feb 14, 2025 | National Politics | Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team’s access to federal government’s payment system | Related Articles National Politics | Anger, chaos and confusion take hold as federal workers face mass layoffs National Politics | Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines National Poli... |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Wyden Again Warns That ‘SS7’ Telecom Flaw Lets Foreign Countries Broadly Spy On American Communications | For many many years, experts have warned about massive longstanding flaws in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signaling System 7), a series of protocols hackers can exploit to track user location, dodge encryption, and even record... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | AT&T, Verizon Fail To Inform Customers About Major Salt Typhoon Hack | For the better part of the last thirty years, telecom giants and “free market” libertarian think tanks have told anybody who’d listen that gutting regulatory oversight of the U.S. wireless and broadband markets would result in near-Utopian ... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Wyden Law Would Give FCC Greater Power Over Telecom’s Lax Cybersecurity In Wake Of Ugly Salt Typhoon Hack | We’ve noted for decades that U.S. telecom security and privacy standards aren’t great. T-Mobile has been hacked so many times in the last five years it’s easy to lose count. AT&T not long ago had a breach impacting the data of 73 millio... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Free Speech Under Attack: Congress Ignores Bills To Protect Press And Critics | Earlier, Karl wrote about a bill from Senator Ron Wyden which would put pressure on big telcos to actually protect our privacy (following the news of Chinese hackers abusing backdoor access to our wiretapping systems to spy on tons of peopl... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Wyden: CALEA Hack Proves Dangers Of Government-Mandated Backdoors | When Congress passed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) in 1994, they were assured by then-FBI Director Louis Freeh that the mandated wiretap backdoors posed no security risks. Fast forward to today, following the... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | The Disconnect Between Politicians and Technology: A Call for Digital Literacy | In the age of information, understanding technology is as crucial as knowing how to read. Yet, many politicians remain lost in the digital wilderness. The recent comments from Hillary Clinton about Section 230 illustrate this gap. Her misun... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Hillary Clinton’s Continued Confusion About Section 230 Highlights Need For Basic Tech Literacy Among Politicians | Hillary Clinton has no clue how Section 230 works. She seems to think that repealing it will make websites more likely to remove misinformation (which is backwards). But what law do we need repealed to stop Clinton from spreading misinforma... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Senate To Kids: We’ll Listen To You When You Agree With Us On KOSA | Apparently, Congress only “listens to the children” when they agree with what the kids are saying. As soon as some kids oppose something like KOSA, their views no longer count. It’s no surprise given the way things were going, but the Senat... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Wyden Tells FTC: Unchecked Automakers Are Still Spying On Their Customers At Massive Scale | Automakers are among the worst “tech” companies in America when it comes to your privacy. They hoover up an ocean of contact, location and behavior data from your car and phone, don’t really clearly tell you they’re doing it, then sell acce... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | KOSA Will Come To The Senate Floor On Tuesday, Senators Paul & Wyden Explain Why It’s Still Bad | On Thursday, as expected, the Senate voted for “cloture” on the extremely problematic Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). The cloture vote is a procedural vote necessary to bring a full vote to the floor. Previously, attempts to move KOSA forwar... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Progressives look to Supreme Court to motivate voters in 2024 race | Washington — On the heels of the Supreme Court's conclusion of its momentous term earlier this month, progressive groups are pouring millions into offensives that seek to make the nation's highest court a galvanizing issue for voters in Nov... |
| Jul 8, 2024 | The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did. | Enlarge Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 50 This story was originally published by ProPublica. Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products. ... |
| May 22, 2024 | Major SS7 Vulnerability In Wireless Networks Oddly Gets A Fraction Of The Hysteria Reserved For TikTok | While lawmakers, looking to get on cable TV, spent much of the last few years performatively hyperventilating about TikTok privacy and national security issues, few of those same folks seem quite as bothered by the parade of obvious, nasty ... |
| May 21, 2024 | FTC Hints At Regulatory Action Against Automakers For Terrible Privacy Practices | In 2023, Mozilla released a report noting that modern cars had the worst security and privacy standards of any major technology industry the organization tracks. That was followed by a NYT report earlier this year showing how automakers rou... |
| May 19, 2024 | Слежка через пуш-уведомления на смартфонах | Недавно стало известно о новом виде слежки за пользователями смартфонов: через пуш-уведомления в iOS и Android. Газета Washington Post написала, в частности, что эту тактику начало использовать ФБР (кэш статьи). Довольно интересно, как рабо... |
| May 13, 2024 | Bipartisan Bill To Repeal Section 230 Defended In Facts-Optional Op-Ed | Section 230, the legal backbone of the internet, is under attack again. This time, it is from a bipartisan pair of legislators who seem to fundamentally misunderstand how the law works and what the consequences of repealing it would be. We’... |
| May 2, 2024 | Wyden Presses FTC To Crack Down On Rampant Auto Industry Privacy Abuses | Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoov... |
| May 1, 2024 | DigDeep Expresses Support for the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Access Data Collection Act of 2024 | The bill would, for the first time, create a dedicated system for collecting data on water and sanitation access in each U.S. state and territory The WASH Access Data Collection Act is a critical step towards addressing the urgent need for ... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding Of Digital Threats | It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked the draft memo and the following June when the case was decided, there was a mad scramble to figure out... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Climate trade talks heat up | figcaption>span]:font-sans"> President Biden's climate and trade task force adds new weight to the Hill conversation about carbon tariffs. Why it matters: Lawmakers see the task force as a sign that the White House is finally get... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Android TV has access to your entire account—but Google is changing that | Enlarge Google reader comments 30 Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloadin... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Senators renew scrutiny of border officers' authority to search Americans' phones | Washington — A group of senators is pressing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for more information on border officers' broad authority to search travelers' phones and other electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion of ... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US spying law that critics say expands government surveillance | Lawmakers passed legislation early Saturday reauthorizing and expanding a controversial U.S. surveillance law shortly after the powers expired at midnight, rejecting opposition by privacy advocates and lawmakers. The bill, which passed on a... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | House Approves FISA Spy Program Renewal Amid GOP Turmoil | The House passed a bill to extend the FISA spy program for two years, after facing resistance from conservative Republicans. The vote was split, with 273 in favor and 147 opposed. The legislation aims to reform and extend Section 702 of the... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It | For a little while, it looked as though Section 702 surveillance might finally be curtailed, if not substantially reformed. Lots of House Republicans were irritated that some of Trump’s inner circle had been (inappropriately) targeted by FB... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Congress Decides To Give FBI Another Free Pass On Section 702 Abuses | It looks like we’re headed to several more years of the same old abuse. The House vote on Section 702 reauthorization — something postponed several times since EOY2023 due to infighting and out-fighting — has indicated that whatever concern... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Partisan Bullshit Tanks House Section 702 Reform Efforts | It took the FBI carelessly, stupidly, and unlawfully targeting members of Trump’s inner circle to make Section 702 program reform a thing that might actually happen. It’s kind of astounding, considering the Snowden leaks provided a much bet... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | House approves bill renewing FISA spy program after GOP upheaval threatened passage | Washington — The House on Friday passed a bill to reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, two days after a conservative revolt prevented similar legislation from reaching the floor. The bill reforms and extends a porti... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Wyden looks to spur doctor pay overhaul | Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden is seeking to "jumpstart" a discussion of ways to update Medicare doctor fees — and put an end to the yearly ritual of doctors pressing Congress to avert scheduled pay cuts. Why it matters:... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | House blocks bill to renew FISA spy program after conservative revolt | Washington — A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program was blocked Wednesday by a conservative revolt in the House, pushing the prospects of final passage into uncertainty amid a looming deadline. The le... |
| Mar 17, 2024 | HiLabs Revolutionizes Healthcare Data Management with $39M Series B Funding | HiLabs, a US-based company using AI to clean dirty healthcare data, secured $39 million in Series B funding led by Eight Roads Ventures and Denali Growth Partners. The funding will be used to enhance technology, hire talent, and expand prod... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | HiLabs Secures $39M for AI-Powered Data Management Solutions | HiLabs, a company that uses AI to manage dirty data, has raised $39 million in Series B funding, the company announced Thursday. Bethesda, Maryland-based HiLabs was founded in 2014 and primarily serves health insurers. Its cloud-based MChec... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Four things we learned when US spy chiefs testified to Congress | Cyberattacks, regional conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, commercial spyware, AI, misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes and TikTok. These are just some of the top perceived threats that the United States faces, according ... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Once More With Feeling: Banning TikTok Doesn’t Do Much If We Don’t Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Privacy Law | While it seemed like our national policy hysteria over TikTok had waned slightly in 2024, it bubbled up once again last week upon rumors that the White House is supporting a “welcome and important” new bill that would effectively ban TikTok... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Wyden’s Office Gets FTC To Protect The Data Of 1.6 Billion People Tracked By Now-Bankrupt Data Broker | There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected industries with unlimited budgets, Congress is ... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | National Politics | In fight over Medicare payments, the hospital lobby shows its strength | Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, Colleen DeGuzman | KFF Health News (TNS) In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines. The point of contention: For decades, Medicare... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Wyden: Data Broker Used Abortion Clinic Visitor Location Data To Help Send Targeted Misinformation To Vulnerable Women | Every few weeks for the last 20 years there’s been a massive scandal involving some company, telecom, data broker, or app maker over-collecting your detailed personal location data, failing to secure it, then selling access to that informat... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Why is there an ADHD medication shortage in 2024? What's making generics of Vyvanse, Adderall and more so scarce | Supply from drugmakers for the stimulant medications most commonly prescribed for ADHD are still falling short of demand, the Food and Drug Administration says, and many Americans who rely on these treatments are wondering why the nationwid... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Senators Ask The DOJ To End Federal Funding For Predictive Policing Programs | Predictive policing programs were supposed to make police work smarter and more efficient. It was supposed to trim down on hours wasted where a police presence wasn’t needed and increase enforcement in areas where crime was a problem. But i... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | First look: Klobuchar leads bill on algorithmic price fixing | Sen. Amy Klobuchar and other Democrats are introducing a bill to prevent companies from using algorithms to collude and set higher prices, per an announcement shared first with Axios. The big picture: Senators are considering how artificial... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | As Congress Grandstands Nonsense ‘Kid Safety’ Bills, Senator Wyden Reintroduces Legislation That Would Actually Help Deal With Kid Exploitation Online | As you’ve likely heard, this morning the Senate did one of its semi-regular hearings in which it drags tech CEOs in front of clueless Senators who make nonsense pronouncements in hopes of getting a viral clip to show up on the very social m... |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Well, That’s Everyone: Senator Wyden Letter Confirms The NSA Is Buying US Persons’ Data From Data Brokers | Buying domestic data from data brokers is just something the government does all the time. Bypassing restraints enacted by the Supreme Court, federal agencies (along with local law enforcement agencies) are hoovering up whatever domestic da... |
| Jan 26, 2024 | NSA is buying Americans’ internet browsing records without a warrant | The U.S. National Security Agency is buying vast amounts of commercially available web browsing data on Americans without a warrant, according to the agency’s outgoing director. NSA director Gen. Paul Nakasone disclosed the practice in a le... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | FBI Director Admits Agency Rarely Has Probable Cause When It Performs Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections | After years of continuous, unrepentant abuse of surveillance powers, the FBI is facing the real possibility of seeing Section 702 curtailed, if not scuttled entirely. |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Passing at home, failing abroad: Grading Mike Johnson's first month as speaker | Politics Passing at home, failing abroad: Grading Mike Johnson's first month as speaker Analysis by Madison Hall 2023-11-21T18:38:27Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelo... |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Senate Undercuts Section 702 Reform Efforts By Stapling Blanket Approval To A Must-Pass Budget Bill | The most serious opposition to extending Section 702 surveillance authorities since the immediate aftermath of the Snowden leaks came from a perhaps-unexpected source: House Republicans. |
| Aug 11, 2023 | US Cyber Board Probes Cloud Identity Breach, Focusing on Recent Microsoft Incident | John Lopez, Tech Times 11 August 2023, 02:08 pm A US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has launched a sweeping investigation of cloud-based identity and authentication infrastructure vulnerabilities to improve cyber security in the face of g... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | US cyber board to investigate Microsoft hack of government emails | A U.S. review board tasked with investigating major cybersecurity incidents said it will begin looking at the recent intrusion of U.S. government email systems provided by Microsoft, whose handling of the incident drew ire and scrutiny from... |
| Aug 2, 2023 | NSA Asks Congress To Not Block Federal Agencies From Collecting Location Data Without A Warrant | For several years, the government was able to route around the Fourth Amendment by turning cell service providers into proxy tracking devices. Thanks to the Third Party Doctrine, location data generated by cell phones wasn’t given an expect... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Sen. Wyden: ‘Hold Microsoft Responsible for Its Negligent Cybersecurity Practices’ | Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the Department of Justice to “hold Microsoft responsible for its Negligent cybersecurity practices.” Microsoft has been under fire since Chinese hackers compromised the company’s cloud email service, includin... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Senator calls for probe in Microsoft breach | A top cybersecurity-focused senator is calling for the U.S. government to "hold Microsoft responsible for its negligent cybersecurity practices" after a recent cloud breach. Driving the news: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter ... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices” | Enlarge Getty Images reader comments 46 with A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to hold Microsoft responsible for “negligent cybersecurity practices” that enabled Chinese espionage hackers to steal hundreds of thousands of em... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | FISA Court Order Shows FBI Analyst Performing Improper Search Of US Senator’s Data | For the first time in a long time, the Intelligence Community is facing an uphill battle to getting one of its most invasive surveillance powers renewed. Not even during the heyday of the Snowden leaks has the IC seen this much resistance t... |
| Jul 21, 2023 | Bill Limiting Data Broker Sales To Law Enforcement Moves Forward | The Supreme Court made it clear in 2018 with its Carpenter decision: gathering historical cell site location info in bulk was impermissible under the Fourth Amendment. If law enforcement wanted to engage in third-party-enabled long term tra... |
| Jun 21, 2023 | US Officials to Implement Safeguards Against Government Attempts to Compel Data from Journalists | Inno Flores, Tech Times 21 June 2023, 10:06 pm Bipartisan House and Senate Groups both reintroduced a landmark federal shield bill, providing journalists with greater protection. The PRESS Act would implement safeguards against government a... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | TikTok may have a path forward in the US without a sale or ban | A bipartisan bill reintroduced this week would regulate how companies including TikTok share US data. The legislation could address some of the core security concerns about the app. Advertisement TikTok may have a path forward in the US wit... |
| May 15, 2023 | The FISA Section 702 Debate Intensifies | In 2008, Congress amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by adding Section 702, allowing the U.S. government to acquire critically important intelligence from foreign targets using U.S. telecommunications services. As Dire... |
| May 4, 2023 | Legislators condemn manufacturers that added sesame in response to allergy labeling law | Dive Brief: A bipartisan group of legislators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), condemned manufacturers that have recently started adding sesame ingredients to baked goods following a federal law naming sesame as a major allergen. Along with... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Biden’s Spyware Order: A Needed First Step | Investigative reports show that the Mexican government has become the most prolific user of spyware in the world, illegally deploying intrusion technologies from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on prominent human rights defenders, journalists... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Book Publishers Nears Climax | In 2020, publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley and Penguin Random House sued the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement, equating its ‘Open Library’ to a pirate site. IA’s library is a non-profit organization that scans p... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | FDA Will Not Regulate CBD, Asks Congress To Act | LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 17: A row of bottles of CBD oil are seen in a branch of the health chain ... [+] Planet Organic on February 17, 2020 in London, England. The country's Food Standards Agency set a deadline of March 31, 2021 for mak... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | More Mass Surveillance: FOIA Docs Reveal Illegal Snooping On US Residents’ Financial Transactions | If it can conceivably be considered a “third party record,” the government is going to seek warrantless access to it. The Third Party Doctrine — ushered into existence by the Supreme Court in 1979 — says there’s no expectation of privacy in... |
| Dec 30, 2022 | The Year That Was (2022) | As December draws to a close, we’ve reached the requisite moment to reflect on what happened in 2022. And although it may be cliche to say so, the answer from us at Lawfare is ... well, a lot. We cover hard national security choices, and la... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future | Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resigna... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Democratic incumbent Sen. Ron Wyden faces off against Republican Jo Rae Perkins in Oregon's US Senate election | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images; Insider Redeem now Explore more race results below. Sen. Ron Wyden is running against Republican Jo Rae Perkins to represent Oregon in the US Senate. Wyden has been ... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | An Update on Homeland Security Intelligence Reporting on Me | When I last checked in on the saga of the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence reporting about me, I had a bit of a cliff-hanger on my hands. “Is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still filing intelligence reports about jo... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Senator Wyden Asks State Dept. To Explain Why It’s Handing Out ‘Unfettered’ Access To Americans’ Passport Data | There are supposed to be limits on what the federal government can do with all the data it forces people to hand over in exchange for government services. But much of the limiting appears to be left up to the discretion of federal agencies.... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Senator Ron Wyden Secures Promise To Overhaul Classification System From Biden, Director Of National Intelligence | The Freedom of Information Act was enacted 55 years ago. To its credit, it has resulted in an unprecedented amount of access to documents and communications created by federal agencies. |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Declassified Report Shows DHS Tried To Fulfill Trump’s Antifa Fantasies When Handling Portland Protests | After weeks of protests erupted following the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, President Trump made it clear he felt the protesters were the real problem. As he stated immediately followi... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | The Facial Recognition Act: A Promising Path to Put Guardrails on a Dangerously Unregulated Surveillance Technology | On Sept. 28, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)—along with Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Yvette Clarke (D-Mass.), and Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)—introduced the Facial Recognition Act, a bill that sets broad limits on law enforcement use of facial r... |
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What has the press written about Senator Ron Wyden?
Parsers VC has collected 388 articles mentioning Senator Ron Wyden, among them “Ad Auctions Feed Warrantless Government Surveillance: New Tool Maps Pipeline” (Aug 13, 2026) and “Khanna Data Center Bill of Rights: Communities Get Congress’s Backing, Not Its Law” (Aug 7, 2026).
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Yes, Senator Ron Wyden is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 10, 2026.