Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced amendments late Monday to the Stop Online Piracy Act — changes that dramatically water down the controversial measure’s scope. A hearing on SOPA before the House Judiciary Committee, which Smith heads, is slated for Thursday. The original measure amounted to the holy grail of intellectual property ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said Friday he would demand answers from the Department of Homeland Security about its domain seizure program known as Operation in Our Sites after it was revealed that the government kept a hip-hop music review site’s name for a year without affording the owner a chance ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said Friday he would demand answers from the Department of Homeland Security about its domain seizure program known as Operation in Our Sites after it was revealed that the government kept a hip-hop music review site’s name for a year without affording the owner a chance ...

Ever since this summer’s riots in England, it’s been clear that a significant portion of the participants traveled significant distances to join in. ...

Ever since this summer’s riots in England, it’s been clear that a significant portion of the participants traveled significant distances to join in. ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — An embattled phone-monitoring software maker said Friday that its wares, secretly installed on some 150 million phones, have the capacity to log web usage, and to chronicle where and when and to what numbers calls and text messages were sent and received. The Carrier IQ executives, speaking ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is doing whatever it takes to defeat Senate and House legislation that expands the governments’ ability to shutter and disrupt websites “dedicated” to infringing activities — including now contemplating a substitute solution. Wyden originally put a hold on the Protect IP Act, which is similar to the ...

The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports back most everything a user does on a phone. Though the software is installed on ...

A mobile data-logging software maker apologized Wednesday to an Android developer who the company had insisted that he publicly apologize for his critical research. Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until the 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, recently revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience, from ...

A mobile data-logging software maker apologized Wednesday to an Android developer who the company had insisted that he publicly apologize for his critical research. Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until the 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, recently revealing that the software secretly chronicles a user’s phone experience, from ...