Senate Moves to Shield Phone Companies on Eavesdropping
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The Senate handed the White House a major victory by voting to give legal protection to phone companies that aided government wiretapping.
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The vote, a major victory for the White House, also gives legal protection to phone companies that aided government wiretapping.
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President George W. Bush's demand for immunity for telephone companies that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program won an initial victory on Monday in the U.S. Senate.
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Top executives of Verizon   Communications VZ.N, Sprint Nextel Corp. S.N, Cingular and   T-Mobile USA have been invited to testify Friday at a U.S.   House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing into the use of   deceptive measures to obtain personal information, known as   pretexting, the panel said on Monday.
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Legislators, regulators and the phone industry are all considering ways to clamp down on unauthorized releases of phone records like those in the Hewlett-Packard case.
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After more than eight months in limbo, a bill that would criminalize the practice of lying to obtain the telephone records of private citizens passed the Senate late Friday.
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The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies
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TechWeb - The Senate asks consumers and companies to work together and protect themselves from the dangers of the Internet.
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A bill by a state senator in New York would make it illegal to send or read text messages while behind the wheel.
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WASHINGTON -- Two senators who wrote a tough but little-understood law to protect corporate whistle-blowers are pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission for aggressive enforcement, just as a case emerges that could determine how companies are policed.
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The Democratic-led U.S. Senate will approve President George W. Bush's demand that telephone companies that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits, a top lawmaker predicted on Wednesday.
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Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones.
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The government surveillance authorization bill approved this week by a Senate committee Wednesday "would radically undermine the privacy of innocent Americans," according to tech experts scrutinizing the legislation.
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The Senate rejected a bid to remove legal immunity for telecom providers that participated in a government surveillance program.
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Under the guise of reining in the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, the Senate Judiciary Committee approves a bill that would dramatically expand the government's domestic surveillance capabilities, and usher in a new age of rampant monitoring. By Ryan Singel.
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Congress is poised to pass a bill that could bury dozens of lawsuits over the Bush administration's warrantless spying, hiding them behind the closed doors of an intelligence court in Washington D.C. By Ryan Singel.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee approved a measure that would  grant immunity to telecom companies for their role in assisting government surveillance programs.