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12 Jun 2024, 5:32 am by Jack Bogdanski
Regular readers here know of whom I think whenever that company is mentioned: Saint Ron Wyden, the senior Oregon senator whose wife, Nancy Bass Wyden, owns many thousands of shares of Nvidia stock.Ain't that America. [read post]
11 Jun 2024, 6:30 am by Elizabeth Goitein
But when the bill was sent to the Senate, Senator Wyden sounded the alarm. [read post]
20 May 2024, 4:38 pm by Hannah Zhao
The seven page letter, from Senators Ed Markey, Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren, and Representative Ayanna Pressley, begins by questioning the “accuracy and effectiveness” of ShotSpotter, and then outlines some of the latest evidence of its abysmal performance, including multiple studies showing false positive rates—i.e. incorrectly classifying non-gunshot sounds as gunshots—at 70% or higher. [read post]
17 May 2024, 5:13 am by Jack Bogdanski
A bill of particulars regarding Thomas's unsuitability for the High Court would make up a large volume.But of all the questionable things he's done, the judge is being attacked lately by Oregon's own sainted senator, Ron "Gatbsy" Wyden, for an alleged wrong that Thomas didn't do. [read post]
17 May 2024, 5:02 am by Rob Robinson
Meanwhile, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chair of the Finance Committee, emphasized the urgent need for mandatory cybersecurity standards following these breaches, which impacted the personal data of millions and interrupted critical healthcare services. [read post]
6 May 2024, 9:05 pm by Brian Connor
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) warned that the tax status quo “causes people to lose faith in government, lose faith in democracy. [read post]
5 May 2024, 10:27 am by David Klein
  Following the leak, Senator Ron Wyden asked the carriers to cease the practice of selling consumer location information to third-party data brokers. [read post]
1 May 2024, 11:46 am by Rosalie Chen
On April 18, Siri Nelson, the Executive Director of National Whistleblower Center (NWC), wrote a letter to Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) expressing concerns regarding unneeded delays in whistleblower award payments under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 1:50 pm by Matthew Guariglia
House of Representatives, the Senate has passed what Senator Ron Wyden has called, “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 10:54 am by Jon Brodkin
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said on Friday. [read post]
Among the amendments was one from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), which would have limited but not outright banned warrantless searches of US persons’ data, and another from Senator Dick Durban (D-IL), which would have largely prohibited warrantless searches of US persons’ data. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 9:25 am by Matthew Guariglia
The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, originally introduced in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden in 2021, has now made the important and historic step of passing the U.S. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 3:41 pm by Tom Mayo
"Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden of Oregon said, referring to the fact that four attorneys general in conservative states — including Ken Paxton — have abused their authority to [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 3:14 pm by Geoff Schweller
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced S.625 in 2023. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 6:05 am by George Croner
Described as a “compromise bill,” the SAFE Act is anything but, instead serving in many respects as the fraternal twin of the Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA) introduced a few months earlier by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a long-time critic of Section 702 (Wyden is a SAFE Act co-sponsor). [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 7:02 am by Justin Hendrix
That response was nearly identical to one he provided to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) when asked similar questions at a Senate Intelligence Committee oversight hearing a year ago. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 3:16 am by Rob Robinson
The sanctions, a stalwart response to years of advocacy and calls for tighter controls by legislators, arrive after careful deliberation and intense calls for action by figures like Senator Ron Wyden. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 2:29 pm by Stewart Baker
Kurt explains the remarkable power of adtech data for intelligence purposes, and Senator Ron Wyden's (D-OR) effort to make sure such data is denied to U.S. agencies but not to China, Russia, and the rest of the world. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 7:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Enter Ron Wyden’s office again, which sent a letter to the FTC last week urging the agency to step in and block the transfer of this data. [read post]