Big tech lobby groups soften anti-China bill
It would hurt US business
An attempt by US politicians to harm Chinese trade has backfired after it emerged it would do more harm to IT companies who are dependent on China.
Huawei looks to UK after US snub
The US number one spying chum has no problem
While the US claims that Huawei is a spy for the Chinese government, it seems that the UK, which does a lot of US spy work, has no problem working with the company.
US agrees to another six years of warrentless snooping
NSA trumps civil liberties
The US Senate passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance programme for six years with minimal changes, overcoming objections from civil rights advocates that it undermined the privacy of Americans.
US jails VW executive over emissions
Scapegoat found
A US District judge in Detroit has sentenced Oliver Schmidt, a former Volkswagen executive, to seven years in prison for his role in the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal of 2015.
US does not need court order for backdoors
Our spies can do what they like
The increasingly autocratic oligarchic junta running the United States has decided it does not need any court order to insist that software companies give its spooks backdoor access to their products.
US is the world leader in the internet of vehicles
IoV is a thing now
Forget the internet of things, the latest buzzword is the internet of vehicles and according to bean counters at Digitimes Research it is something that the US is the world leader.
US States must not create net neutrality laws
FCC warns against filling the vacuum
Now that the Federal Communications Commission has ditched net neutrality rules, it has warned US states not to fill the vacuum and create laws of their own.
US government makes it harder to sue companies over poor IT security
So much for cleaning out the swamp
Rather than sorting out the corrupt relationship between the US government and big corporations, it appears that the Senate wants to make it hard for consumers to sue financial companies who could not be bothered installing good IT security.
US will start spying on home grown terrorists
Finally realised that those are the main threat
US spooks are finally turning their considerable tech spying power on to the white men with guns who do most of the terrorism in the country.
US government arrests “WannaCry” saviour
Reward from a grateful nation
US authorities have decided that that the British guy who saved the world from the “wanna cry” malware is a criminal and arrested him.
