Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Spinning a Worldwide Y2K Web - The millennium bug affects the whole world. And a series of conferences beginning Tuesday will mobilize a cooperative global effort to eradicate it. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   Spying on the Spies - Echelon, the National Security Agency's worldwide electronic surveillance network, will be under the harsh glare of congressional scrutiny for the first time. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]   Starr Report: A Double Standard? - In its rush to post the lurid details of the Starr report online, the government is flouting its own censorship standards, a civil liberties expert maintains. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   Stars Spar over US Net Policy - Lawrence Lessig challenges Ira Magaziner on what he calls the Clinton administration's hasty approach to trying to solve big Internet issues. By Alyssa Katz. [Wired News]   State Department Lags on Y2K - The General Accounting Office finds that the State Department is making progress in fixing its Y2K mess, but glitches could still disrupt diplomacy and let terrorists in. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]   States Turn Schools Into Mini-ISPs - Several states are trying to promote Internet and email connections in public schools the old-fashioned way - through legislation. In Michigan, the law mandates that phone companies provide schools with "at cost" access to telecom services, la T1 and ISDN lines. [Wired News]   Strong Rules for Strong Crypto - More restrictions, not less, are in store for cryptography exports -- if the White House has anything to say about it. Declan McCullagh reports from Arlington, Virginia. [Wired News]   Students Wonder: How Smart? - Students at the University of Toronto fear that a new smartcard program might be threatening their privacy. By Marlene Blanshay. [Wired News]   Study: Self-Policing Fails - The Electronic Privacy Information Center finds that a self-regulatory effort by the Direct Marketing Association has bombed. Any effective consumer protection, EPIC concludes, must involve Washington. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Supreme Court Hears FCC Appeal - The FCC and long-distance carriers squared off against Baby Bells and state regulators Tuesday, in a landmark case to decide who enforces the 1996 Telecom Act. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]   Survey: Privacy Laws Common - A new study finds that 40 out of 50 nations surveyed have strong consumer-data protection laws. It's a sign that online businesses in the United States may be out on a limb. By James Glave. [Wired News]   Talking the Talk on Antitrust - The US government's antitrust case against Microsoft dominates every discussion at a conference of top executives and officials. Senator Orrin Hatch's voice booms loudest. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]   Teach the Teachers First - President Clinton announces US$30 million in education grants to bring much-needed tech know-how to the nation's schools. It's the teachers who need it most, he says. By Jackie Bennion. [Wired News]   Tech Lobby's Schools Victory - Silicon Valley's home-grown lobbying group, the Technology Network, scores a goal with the signing of a California bill that will foster the spread of charter schools in the state. [Wired News]   Tech Visa Bill Resurrected - After several setbacks, Silicon Valley's bid to raise the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the country may become law after all. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]   Technocracy R.I.P. - The rise of technology signals the fall of technocracy. [Wired News]   Texans Against Spam - Lone Star Republicans are first in the United States to adopt an antispam party plank. By Deborah Scoblionkov. [Wired News]   The BBC Goes Portal - Beset by controversy and disorganization, the public broadcasting institution will abandon its "programming" model and jump on the Web aggregation bandwagon. By Mike Bracken. [Wired News]   The Blue Ribbon is Back - Two Senate bills aimed at addressing items in the Communications Decency Act that were struck down last year have prompted the Electronic Frontier Foundation to re-launch its Blue Ribbon Campaign. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]   The Dawn of the E-Shamrock? - A new report co-authored by Vint Cerf and other Internet luminaries suggests that Ireland could catch up to the United States and become a European e-commerce player. Karlin Lillington reports from Dublin. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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