Grant Gross

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday warned military veterans about the potential for identity theft after personal data on up to 26.5 million VA clients was stolen from an analyst's home.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a stand-alone net neutrality bill after a House committee thwarted efforts to pass strong prohibitions against broadband providers slowing access to online competitors.

The U.S. Supreme Court has set aside a lower court decision to stop eBay Inc. from using a prominent feature on its Web site because of a patent dispute. The Supreme Court decision effectively overturns a long-held U.S. court practice of issuing injunctions against infringing products in nearly all patent cases. Much of the U.S. tech industry had sided with online auction site eBay, which, in May 2003, was found guilty of infringing a "buy it now" patent held by MercExchange LLC, a small auction site.

A set of best practices designed to help assuage consumers

In the wake of a series of data breaches in early 2005, the U.S. Congress seemed ready to move quickly on legislation that would require companies to notify customers when their personal information had been compromised.n

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered a spyware operation to give up more than US$4 million in profit after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against the company. The FTC accused the company and an affiliate of deceptively downloading spyware onto computers, changing the computers' settings and hijacking their search engines.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should set aside 30MHz of radio spectrum scheduled to be auctioned off to commercial users in 2008 for a new multibillion-dollar wireless public safety network, Nextel co-founder Morgan O

A wide-ranging telecommunications reform bill approved by a US House committee late Wednesday will drive down cable TV prices and increase demand for broadband services, said supporters of the legislation.