Topic - Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

• Embassy Row

  The U.S. ambassador to Canada is calling for smarter border security to target terrorists and smugglers and to spend "less time inspecting my grandmother."

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  RACHWALD & BIRD: Getting a grip on our electronic lives

  As news about the iPhone's location tracking remind us, data privacy is important. Certainly, with virtually our entire lives digitized today, knowledge regarding the use of data is critical. But Sony has provided us with a sobering reminder: Giving data to a large company and having it stolen are two different things.

• AT&T, T-Mobile face off against rivals on merger

  Top executives from AT&T and T-Mobile USA faced off against top officials from Sprint Nextel and Cellular South on Capitol Hill Wednesday as lawmakers considered whether AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile would produce better mobile service for consumers or crush competition in the wireless industry.

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  Apple, Google face Hill flak over breaches of device privacy

  High-tech giants Google and Apple struggled to reassure lawmakers at a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday that the companies can protect the privacy of mobile-device users, in light of recent reports that popular smartphones and tablet computers are secretly storing data on the whereabouts of customers.

• Wireless carriers get consent to use location data

  The nation's four largest wireless carriers say they obtain customer permission before using a subscriber's physical location to provide driving directions, family-finder applications and other location-based services, and before sharing a subscriber's location with any outside mobile apps that provide such services.

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  Teen arrested in cyber-attacks; others pursued

  Police and prosecutors in Europe and the U.S. have launched investigations into cyber-attacks by supporters of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, as online skirmishing over the group's publication of secret diplomatic communications continued.

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  EDITORIAL: State Department flunks passport test

  Big-government solutions rarely fix serious problems. Instead, they create bigger ones. Since 2006, U.S. passports have been issued with an embedded radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking chip ostensibly intended to reduce unauthorized entry into the country. In testimony Thursday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that despite the high-tech efforts, passport fraud is still "easy."

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  Passport officials ask for tools to fight fraud

  The Obama administration is asking Congress for new powers to fight identity fraud after undercover government investigators obtained U.S. passports using forged documents for the second time in less than two years.

• Passport probe ratchets up call to fight fraud

  The Obama administration is asking Congress for new powers to fight identity fraud after undercover government investigators obtained U.S. passports using forged documents for the second time in less than two years.

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  U.S. Web services misused by oppressors

  Congress yesterday considered how to resolve the dilemma of U.S. Internet companies that try to serve their customers but end up serving repressive foreign governments.

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  U.S. Web services misused by oppressors

  Congress yesterday considered how to resolve the dilemma of U.S. Internet companies that try to serve their customers but end up serving repressive foreign governments.

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