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Yesterday, the President鈥檚 Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies issued their report aptly titled 鈥淟iberty and Security in a Changing World.鈥� The report includes 46 Recommendations to the President. Back in October, 91快活林, along with SIIA, submitted a series of recommendations to the Review Group calling for greater transparency, improved oversight, and additional measures that [...]
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President Barack Obama today convened a meeting with leaders of the technology sector to talk about two critical challenges confronting the technology industry:聽 1) the ability of our industry to innovate and sell products globally in the shadow of revelations on U.S. surveillance practices; and 2) the ability of government to better acquire and utilize state-of-the-art technology amidst the controversy [...]
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Last week, 91快活林 submitted its comments in response to the important and much-anticipated Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).聽聽 Since the Framework plan was put forward in February 2013 as part of聽 President Barack Obama鈥檚 cybersecurity Executive Order, we have fully supported the collaborative concept behind it -- 聽a concept in which [...]
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Earlier this year, 91快活林 unveiled its last iteration of Moving Education Forward: 聽Strengthening STEM in Today鈥檚 Classrooms -- an excellent resource that spotlights many of our member companies and the investments they鈥檝e made in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs that prepare our nation鈥檚 students and workers for today鈥檚 dynamic economy.聽 Today, 91快活林 moved this book and its content [...]
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This week, as part of efforts to reach a budget agreement, key members of the House and Senate will be looking to reach a deal to fund the U.S. government for the next fiscal period 鈥� providing business and U.S. citizens with certainty that essential services and policies will continue apace and without interruption.聽 This agreement, if approved by Congress, would be a step forward for bipartisanship [...]
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Even in his parting, Nelson Mandela has given us a gift.聽 The opportunity to look beyond today and towards the lessons learned from his life that may help all of us tomorrow.聽 That legacy is rich and potentially rewarding if we are willing to embrace it.聽 Nelson Mandela was a patriot, pragmatist, and the rare leader who realized that what matters most are first principles rather than tactics.聽 For [...]
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The legislative express train that has been patent reform reached top speed in the House of Representatives this afternoon, and its next scheduled stop will be the United States Senate.聽 By a vote of 325-91, the House passed H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill advanced by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to curb abusive litigation by patent trolls.聽 Make no mistake, today鈥檚 [...]
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Were Grace Hopper still alive, she鈥檇 turn 107 years young on Monday, December 9th.聽 Grace Hopper, as I鈥檓 sure you know, served in the United States Navy with great distinction.聽 She first enlisted in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) program in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, and served in various roles in the Navy until 1986, when she retired as the oldest active-duty [...]
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is an outdated law. Since it was enacted in 1986, the technological advances have been tremendous. ECPA must be updated so that law enforcement is required to obtain a warrant in order to gain access to online content. 91快活林 urges Congress to make ECPA reform a priority and pass a clean reform bill that wouldn鈥檛 allow civil agencies to get a pass on a [...]
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There has been a lot of debate in the media recently about who or what is to blame for the Healthcare.gov failure. The saying 鈥渟uccess has many fathers, but failure is an orphan鈥� comes to mind. Practically everyone in government and the private sector with a role in Healthcare.gov has been under the media鈥檚 microscope. 聽The media鈥檚 finger-pointing aside, the fact is that no one individual or office [...]
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