The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...Politico From ACM Careers | September 18, 2017
With Congress focused on reforming the tax code and replacing Obamacare—plus keeping the government open—there's little oxygen for other policy issues.
Politico From ACM News | June 22, 2017
During a private meeting in the Oval Office earlier this month, President Donald Trump is understood to have disclosed highly classified intelligence to two senior...Politico From ACM News | May 25, 2017
Poisonous political divisions have spawned an encryption arms race across the Trump administration, as both the president’s advisers and career civil servants scramble...Politico From ACM Careers | February 27, 2017
Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...Politico From ACM Careers | February 7, 2017
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking...Politico From ACM Careers | February 3, 2017
President Donald Trump's broad executive order to restrict visas and refugees particularly from Muslim countries left tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and...Politico From ACM News | January 30, 2017
A federal appeals court is letting stand a ruling in a closely watched case holding that Microsoft need not comply with a U.S. government demand for data stored...Politico From ACM News | January 24, 2017
Hackers could influence the outcomes of November’s elections, a computer science professor who has demonstrated security weaknesses in voting machines told lawmakers...Politico From ACM News | September 29, 2016
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...Politico From ACM News | August 8, 2016
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...Politico From ACM Careers | June 29, 2016
President Barack Obama wears a FitBit monitor on his wrist to count his steps and calories, and has waxed poetic about the power of wearable technology to "give...Politico From ACM News | July 1, 2015
President Barack Obama promised at his year-end news conference Friday that the U.S. will respond "proportionally" to North Korea's cyberattack against Sony Pictures...Politico From ACM News | December 22, 2014
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.Politico From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2014
President Barack Obama isn't the only one struggling to balance national security and civil liberties with the country's post-Sept. 11 surveillance programs.Politico From ACM News | January 17, 2014
A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the...Politico From ACM News | August 14, 2013
President Barack Obama defended his administration’s data-gathering programs Friday, calling them necessary for national security and well within the bounds of...Politico From ACM News | June 7, 2013
The revelation that the Obama administration is pursuing a massive surveillance program that tracks countless U.S. and international phone calls has brought privacy...Politico From ACM News | June 6, 2013