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Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill

StealthyRoid writes "The Senate mortgage bill proposed by Sen. Chris Dodd (who was the recipient of a sweetheart deal on his mortgage from Countrywide, one of the beneficiaries of the bill) includes an attempt to sneak into law a requirement that all electronic payment processors send detailed transaction data to the federal government. The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000. Quoting FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey (former House majority leader) from the article: 'This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Ama

Online Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Housing Bill

StealthyRoid writes "The Senate mortgage bill proposed by Sen. Chris Dodd (who was the recipient of a sweetheart deal on his mortgage from Countrywide, one of the beneficiaries of the bill) includes an attempt to sneak into law a requirement that all electronic payment processors send detailed transaction data to the federal government. The proposed law contains an exception for businesses with fewer than 200 transactions or a total value less than $10,000. Quoting FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey (former House majority leader) from the article: 'This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Ama

Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill

shma writes "This morning the senate has a scheduled cloture vote to cut off debate on the FISA bill which grants retroactive immunity to telecoms who engaged in warrantless wiretapping. Senators Russ Feingold and Christopher Dodd have pledged to try and filibuster the bill, but require the vote of 40 senators to keep the filibuster alive. The article states that a similar "threatened filibuster failed in February, when the Senate passed a measure that granted amnesty and largely legalized the President's secret warrantless wiretapping programs." Should they lose the cloture vote, the bill is all but assured of passing. A proposed amendment stripping the immunity provision from the bill is also expected to fail."

Bill Allowing Medical Privacy Intrusion Fails in Sacramento; Anti-Privacy Bill by Auto Insurers Faces Vote Wednesday

Bill Allowing Medical Privacy Intrusion Fails in Sacramento; Anti-Privacy Bill by Auto Insurers Faces Vote Wednesday

House Passes Revised FISA Bill - Telecoms granted immunity for warrantless wiretapping

The revised FISA bill that was under review today was passed through the House without any problems. The revised bill made some changes to the issue of whether or not to give immunity to telecoms that participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping in the past but ultimately it does allow for that immunity to be granted. They simply need to prove that they received instructions from the president which ordered them to assist in the eavesdropping. The Senate is likely to pass the revised bill through without any questions sometime before 4th of July.

Revised FISA Bill Goes to Vote Tomorrow - Allows for retroactive telecom immunity in warrantless wiretapping case

While Sweden makes a lot of noise in regards to the approval of warrantless eavesdropping, the United States quietly continues to deal with the same issue from a different front. A revised version of the FISA bill is going up for a vote tomorrow and it contains a controversial clause that allows for telecom immunity to be given to those companies that participated in Bush’s warrantless wiretapping after 9/11. An analysis of the bill by the Electronic Frontier Foundation shows that the phrasing may have changed but the substance of the bill remains the same. If it passes tomorrow, the telcos get retroactive immunity for doing what the president told them to do.

Dewan Rakyat Postpones NS Bill To Make Way For Pension Bills

KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 (Bernama) -- The Dewan Rakyat Thursday postponed debating the National Service Training Bill (Amendment) 2008 to make way for the debate on the Pension Bill (Amendment) 2008 and the Local Government and Statutory Bodies Pension Bill (Amendment) 2008.

CEBP Announces Best Practices for Decreasing Online Bill Payment Exceptions

HERNDON, Va. - The NACHA Council for Electronic Billing and Payment (CEBP) today released best practices for reducing online bill payment exceptions. Exceptions are online bill payments sent by bank bill pay sites to billers that are unable to be posted accurately and promptly upon re

Canadian DMCA Hide And Seek -- With Bonus Wikipedia Edits

Despite the expectations that the new Canadian DMCA would be released Wednesday, it appears that the bill's introduction has been delayed as the guy behind it, Jim Prentice, figures out what to do. Some reports note that Prentice apparently promised the recording industry that the bill would be introduced before the summer, which seems fairly ridiculous. Why should he promise one industry anything -- especially when there's so much consumer and business opposition to the bill? In the meantime, though, while not introducing the bill, it does appear that folks in Prentice's office have been busy scrubbing Wikipedia to make sure this controversy isn't on Prentice's page.

Bill Me Later to Reward Summer Shoppers With $10 Off Amazon Purchases

Bill Me Later, Inc. today announced that to celebrate its launch on Amazon.com, customers that pay with Bill Me Later will receive $10 off qualifying Amazon.com purchases of $50 or more. The offer is available through July 21, 2008.

Bill Gates's Last Speech

Ian Lamont writes "Bill Gates, in an address to the TechEd Developers conference, talked about Microsoft's plans for hosted services, and revealed that the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before' that will apparently enable the company to offer all of its server-based products over the Internet. The talk did not include details in terms of capacity or scale. This was Gates's final publicly scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee, and he acknowledged that Microsoft's success is 'due to our relationship with developers.' On July 1, he will start spending most of his time at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation." After that date he will be devoting his "20% time" to Microsoft.

Bill Me Later to Reward Summer Shoppers With $10 Off Amazon Purchases

TIMONIUM, Md., BUSINESS WIRE -- Bill Me Later, Inc. today announced that to celebrate its launch on Amazon.com, customers that pay with Bill Me Later will receive $10 off qualifying Amazon.com purchases of $50 or more. The offer is available through July 21, 2008.

Bill Me Later to Reward Summer Shoppers With $10 Off Amazon Purchases

TIMONIUM, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bill Me Later, Inc. today announced that to celebrate its launch on Amazon.com, customers that pay with Bill Me Later will receive $10 off qualifying Amazon.com purchases of $50 or more. The offer is available through July 21, 2008.

Bill would change patent law in favor of crash parts

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering new legislation that would create an exemption in U.S. patent law covering the production of aftermarket automobile parts. If passed, the bill would allow aftermarket part manufacturers to operate without fear of infringing on OEM parts patents, as was the case in the recent dustup between Ford Motor Co. and Keystone Automotive. With the end of Congressional session looming, however, the bill may not make it out of committee this year.

Bill would change patent law in favor of crash parts

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering new legislation that would create an exemption in U.S. patent law covering the production of aftermarket automobile parts. If passed, the bill would allow aftermarket part manufacturers to operate without fear of infringing on OEM parts patents, as was the case in the recent dustup between Ford Motor Co. and Keystone Automotive. With the end of Congressional session looming, however, the bill may not make it out of committee this year.

FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity

Bimo_Dude writes "Today (June 20), Steny Hoyer is bringing to the House floor the latest FISA bill (PDF), which includes retroactive immunity for the telcos. The bill also is very weak on judicial review, allowing the telcos to use a letter from the president as a 'get out of liability free' card. Here are comments from the EFF. Glenn Greenwald, writing in Salon, describes the effect of the immunity clause this way: 'So all the Attorney General has to do is recite those magic words — the President requested this eavesdropping and did it in order to save us from the Terrorists — and the minute he utters those words, the courts are required to dismiss the lawsuits against the telecoms, no matter how illegal their behavior was.'"

'Priceless' gold pieces by Bill Reid stolen from UBC museum

Haida artist Bill Reid, shown carving a sculpture in 1990, died in 1998. Haida artist Bill Reid, shown carving a sculpture in 1990, died in 1998.

New wiretapping bill dubbed repugnant and a capitulation

Under a “compromise� wiretapping bill the House is expected to approve tomorrow, U.S. phone companies that cooperated with President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program after Sept. 11 “could be shielded from lawsuits� as long as “there is written certification that the White House asked a phone company to participate and assured it� of the program’s legality. However, as critics of the deal have noted, there isn’t much to the bill that constitutes a “compromise�:

Senate Passes Wiretapping Bill

The updated Wiretapping Bill, which included a controversial carrier immunity clause, passed the Senate yesterday, with 69 votes in favor to 28 opposed. The bill is an update to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and in response to President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program in wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Amazon.com Offers Bill Me Later Financing for Shoppers

Amazon.com launched Bill Me Later as a payment option on its site on Tuesday. The company had announced its intention to offer the service late last year when it made an investment in the company. Bill Me Later allows shoppers to pay for purchases instantly online without using a credit card, using financing programs instead.

Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions

Corrupt notes an Ars analysis of the FISA bill of which the telecom immunity provision has been getting all the attention. Timothy B. Lee enumerates the ways in which the bill loosens current protections on domestic wiretapping and opens up whole new areas to government eavesdropping. "The legislation eliminates meaningful judicial oversight of eavesdropping between Americans citizen and foreigners located overseas and effectively legalizes dragnet surveillance of domestic-to-foreign traffic. It stretches out the judicial review process so much that the government will in many cases be able to complete its surveillance activities before the courts finish deciding on its legality."

Net Neutrality Bill Introduced In Canadian Parliament

FeatherBoa points out that the New Democratic Party in Canada has introduced legislation to limit the amount of control Canadian ISPs can exert over their subscribers. The bill would amend the Telecommunications Act to "prohibit network operators from engaging in network management practices that favour, degrade or prioritize any content, application or service transmitted over a broadband network based on its source, ownership or destination, subject to certain exceptions." Support for net neutrality in Canada has been building for quite a while now. Quoting CBC News: "'This bill is about fairness to consumers,' said Charlie Angus, the NDP's digital spokesman. It also looks to prohibit 'network operators from preventing a user from attaching any device to their network and requires network operators to make information about the user's a

Amazon.com Taps Bill Me Later For Payments

Seattle-based online retailer Amazon.com will begin using a payment service from Bill Me Later, a startup which offers delayed payment options for small business buyers, the firm announced today. According to Amazon.com, it will begin offering its customers access to the service today, allowing consumers to pay for purchases instantly without a credit card. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon.com is an investor in Bill Me Later, and said in December that it would add the option sometime this year.

The stolen goods: Bill Reid's art collection

In case you don't know the artist who created the stolen pieces from the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology, his name is Bill Reid, and he is responsible for the wonderful art you see on the back of our Canadian twenty dollar bill.

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