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                    <description>Google, Intel, Microsoft, Skype try to persuade European regulators that VoIP providers should not have to provide access to emergency services.</description>
                
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                <title>The future of telecom regulation in Europe</title>
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                    <description>Reformed regulatory framework would affect access, Internet calling, privacy, security, and Net neutrality across Europe.</description>
                
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                    <description>CNET News.com&#039;s Michael Kanellos says that while those in the tech world want to see government out of our lives, they don&#039;t really mean it.</description>
                
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                    <description>Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains how political blogs are able to remain exempt from campaign finance regulations.</description>
                
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                <title>A call for Net neutrality debate in U.K.</title>
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                    <description>In win for tech industry, bill that would not regulate the software industry clears the House of Representatives.</description>
                
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                <title>Senators demand more regulations on Net pharmacies</title>
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                    <description>Politicians mull forcing ISPs to block &#034;rogue&#034; pharmacies or monitoring customers&#039; Web traffic to block ads.</description>
                
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                <title>FCC imposes rules designed to prevent pretexting</title>
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                    <description>Commission order lists new regulations phone companies must follow to protect subscriber call records, other personal data.</description>
                
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                <title>E.U. official: Now isn&#039;t time for RFID regulations</title>
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                    <description>European Commission won&#039;t levy stiff rules on radio frequency ID tags now. But bureaucrats promise to do so later if they smell privacy concerns.</description>
                
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                <title>Supreme Court rules EPA can regulate greenhouse gases</title>
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                    <description>Rebuking the EPA&#039;s stance, a 5-4 U.S Supreme Court decision says greenhouse gases can be regulated as pollutants, but falls short of ordering the agency to do so.</description>
                
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                <title>Freedom of information? Uncle Sam, get it right!</title>
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                    <description>Attorney Eric Sinrod says 10 years after Congress enacted E-FOIA regulations, government agencies are coming up woefully short.</description>
                
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                <title>FCC to study need for more Net neutrality regulation</title>
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                    <description>Federal Communications Commission says it will invite public comments on the need for more Net neutrality protections.</description>
                
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                <title>Symantec buys risk-management start-up</title>
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                    <description>Acquisition is to provide Symantec with new tools to help customers take manual Web-based policy compliance assessments.</description>
                
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                <pubDate>March 8, 2007 6:05 PM PST</pubDate>
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                <title>Senator wants to ban &#039;deceptive&#039; video game ratings</title>
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                    <description>Republican Sam Brownback makes another attempt at new regulations for the video game industry and its rating outfits.</description>
                
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                <title>Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House</title>
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                    <description>Congress has tried for years to enact spyware regulations and restrictions on Social Security numbers, with no luck so far.</description>
                
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                <title>Trend Micro CEO settles SEC action</title>
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                    <description>Company says its chief executive reached a settlement with the SEC over allegations of securities violations in the trading of SINA stock.</description>
                
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                <title>Telcos may face new antipretexting regulations</title>
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                    <description>Proposal by two Congress members would require phone carriers to notify customers whose records have been unlawfully accessed.</description>
                
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                <title>Google&#039;s Schmidt pitches &#039;self-governing&#039; Net</title>
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                    <description>CEO says nightmare scenario would be an online environment subject to tight regulations, policing of digital identities.</description>
                
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                    <description>President&#039;s State of the Union address calls for renewable energy and higher fuel standards for cars. But the Iraq war was on everyone&#039;s mind.</description>
                
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                    <description>Senators strike a section that would have required some &#034;grassroots&#034; lobbying groups to register or face prison time.
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