AT&T, Microsoft win as ID theft bill eviscerated
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| A pro-consumer, bipartisan data-breach bill was stripped of most its
| provisions before its feeble remains were finally passed by an Indiana Senate
| committee on Tuesday.
|
| This came after two weeks of intensive lobbying by AT&T, Verizon, Microsoft,
| and LexisNexis, all of which wanted to kill the bill. For the most part, they
| were successful.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9870992-46.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Shades of the anti-ODF mafia from Microsoft (Florida story), among others. See
below for a reminder.
Also in the news:
Bush to Congress: Pass expanded spy law, already
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| With Congress seeking more time to finalize a soon-to-expire expansion of the
| government's electronic spying powers, President Bush on Wednesday issued an
| ultimatum: No more delays.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9871190-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Republicans scuttle surveillance bill lacking telco immunity
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| Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have scuttled an attempt to
| grant a temporary extension to a controversial wiretap law--that did not
| include retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9871532-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation
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| It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into
| a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within
| 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were
| pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
| (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
State by state, Microsoft responds to creeping threat
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| Characteristically, as lawmakers like Homan have learned,
| Microsoft's hardly taking a passive position.
|
| [...]
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| 'Microsoft sees what's coming. Things like Word and Excel
| sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.'
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/state-state-microsoft-responds-assault/story.aspx?guid=%7BC0D943C4%2D4ADC%2D471C%2D8F87%2D9181A4EC3E7B%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2akafj
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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
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| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
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| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
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| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
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| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
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| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183
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