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• CDT: Cybersecurity bills raise major civil liberties concerns

  A group of cybersecurity bills that the U.S. Congress may soon vote on contain serious privacy and civil liberties flaws, with some of the bills allowing private companies to share a wide range of their customers' online communications with government agencies, the Center for Democracy and Technology said.

• Few tech issues will move in Congress for the rest of the year

  As the U.S. Congress begins to gear up for November's elections, several technology-related issues remain unresolved. Lawmakers have pushed in recent months for new cybersecurity legislation, online copyright enforcement provisions, new online privacy protections and an Internet sales tax, but progress will get tougher in the coming months.

• Republican senators introduce their own cybersecurity bill

  Seven senior Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced cybersecurity legislation after saying that an earlier bill would create costly regulations for businesses.

• Cybersecurity bill would create costly regulations, say critics

  Leaders in the U.S. Senate are trying to fast-track new cybersecurity legislation that will create costly new regulations for some businesses, some critics said Thursday.

• Senators push for privacy, data security legislation

  Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require companies to put security monitoring tools on their networks.

• Kerry, McCain introduced online privacy bill

  Two high-profile U.S. senators have introduced legislation designed to give consumers more control over what information about them is collected online, but privacy advocates said the bill will do little to curb wide-spread data-collection practices now in place.

• Report: 'Foreign entity' hacked Obama, McCain PCs

  Computer systems used by the election campaigns of both President-elect Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain were broken into earlier this year, and a large number of files related to the evolving policy positions of the two candidates were stolen, according to a story posted online Wednesday by Newsweek magazine.

• Supporters lay out tech reasons to vote for Obama, McCain

  Barack Obama could either raise taxes on corporations and worker savings plans if he becomes U.S. president, or he could focus on bringing broadband to everyone across the U.S.

• McCain delay sparks Twitter fray

  Users of the micro-blogging site mock the presidential candidate’s decision to “suspend” campaign to deal with the US economic crisis.