Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, the nation’s top telecom regulator, voiced support yesterday for a new set of regulations on net neutrality, which would require Internet service providers to treat all Internet traffic equally, known as net neutrality. Genachowski called the proposed regulations part of “the road to preserve the freedom and openness of [...]

In a report yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission issued a framework for developing a do-not-track option for online browsing, which would seek to limit the ability of online advertisers to track Internet users’ viewing preferences. “Technological and business ingenuity have spawned a whole new online culture and vocabulary,” said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “The FTC [...]

The co-chairmen of the presidential deficit commission released a final version of their report today, calling for a contentious mix of federal workforce cuts, pay freezes and tax increases. At a Capitol Hill conference, flanked by members of the deficit panel, co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, a former Clinton White House chief of staff, and Alan K. [...]

To adapt NATO’s mission to “new threats,” the organization added missile defense and  cybersecurity provisions to the organization’s strategic concept at its annual summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 19 and 20. In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, top Defense Department policy official Michele Flournoy said the organization’s new mission statement [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has long promoted the Office of Management and Budget’s efforts to shutter government data centers in a push to save costs and prepare the foundation for federal cloud-computing platforms. But a new partnership between OMB and the Council on Environmental Quality now means one of the top White House [...]

A new report ranking public sector, industry and advocacy organizations on their adoption of social media and digital savvy found that some government organizations – archaic reputations notwithstanding – are actually geniuses when it comes to new media. The report, commissioned by New York University’s Scott Galloway and George Washington University’s Doug Guthrie, assessed 100 [...]

In the wake of WikiLeaks’ latest disclosures – the potential publication of more than 250,000 secret State Department diplomatic cables, Obama administration officials are vowing it won’t happen again. But, the thought of a post-WikiLeaks clampdown has some observers predicting a possible chill for information sharing in the federal government. Following WikiLeaks’ latest round of [...]