Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Panel Approves FCC Nominees - William Kennard and three other appointees are a step closer to taking their places running the communications agency. Kennard still faces one wild card - Senator Jesse Helms. [Wired News]   Panel Urges Medical Data Protection - If your medical records are on a computerized database, you run the risk of having them seen by people you never dreamed would be perusing your health information. [Wired News]   Parental Guidance Suggested - Jon Katz on the Net Panic of the Week, Part II: Teach your children well. [Wired News]   Passage: Anne Wells Branscomb, 68 - The lawyer and visionary swayed networks of people to think about networks of computers. [Wired News]   Paula Jones Is not the Real Issue - Jon Katz on why the media can't help us understand our world. Part I of a series. [Wired News]   Pentagon's Landmine View Called Overblown - The United States' policy on landmines in Korea is based on the flawed results of computerized Pentagon war games, a report charges. [Wired News]   Pete du Pont's Pit Stop - When the politician-turned-publisher idles his PR hot rod at the Wired News HQ, sifting through the exhaust is a wild ride in itself. [Wired News]   Phyllis Schlafly, Cyber Warrior - The right-wing crusader has joined civil libertarians to fight the Clinton administration's restrictive encryption policy. [Wired News]   Playboy Renews Fight against Telecom Act - Emboldened by the defeat of the Communications Decency Act, the porn publisher asks a federal court to invalidate provisions of the 1996 law that require blocking devices or safe-harbor broadcasting hours for lewd cablecasts. [Wired News]   Pockets of Secrecy - Senator Mitch McConnell is invoking disclosure as a panacea, the way some fitness gurus talk about vitamin C. [Wired News]   Political Big Spenders Exposed Online - MoJo Wire presents its second annual list of the top 400 political contributors. Many of the rich and famous show up. Larry Flynt does not. [Wired News]   Political Player Isn't Yet a Political Power - Mr. Barksdale goes to Washington, but the CEO's deftness in the halls of power so far hasn't made a big impression. Politics reporter Ashley Craddock looks at Netscape's blend of info-tech and politics. [Wired News]   PoliticsNow Shuts Down - The online venture of ABC News, The Washington Post, and the National Journal pulls the plug. [Wired News]   Poll: Protect Kids from Net Smut - An independent survey finds that most respondents want the government to be more than big brother - and act like a content baby-sitter. [Wired News]   Pore Over the Poop on Clintons' Coffee-Klatch - MoJo Wire rises to the pursuit of public disclosure and raises a little hell with the Bill and Hillary Clinton coffee-klatch database, searchable at your pleasure and leisure. [Wired News]   Pretty Good Privacy Not Looking So Great - PGP's new owner supports key recovery - the very issue that crypto company founder Phil Zimmermann has been fighting for years. So where does he go from here? [Wired News]   Privacy Activists Not Sold on AOL Move - Those working to maintain protections for online users say that the company's new terms of service still contain disturbing provisions. [Wired News]   Privacy Implications of Hedy Lamarr's Idea - Net activist David Hughes sought honor for the actress who invented frequency hopping, but he doubts that the full meaning of the technology is appreciated. [Wired News]   Privacy Panel Spells Out Policy Agenda - The Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, a coalition of communications and computer-industry officials and privacy advocates, issues a study outlining the policy challenges as wireless and the Net continue to boom. [Wired News]   Private Eyes, Public Records - The California Voter Foundation is pushing for a law requiring the online posting of political campaign contributions. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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