Robert Strayer, former general counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has joined the State Department as deputy assistant secretary for cyber and international communications and information policy. Strayer will lead U.S.
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Congress starts its official August recess this week, but has a full slate of technology issues to deal with when it reconvenes after Labor Day. National Journal reports the main issue is
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Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra said the administration will continue to push for important technology policies in the year ahead, even as a potentially intractable Congress takes the reins. “In an
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The Federal Trade Commission announced Nov. 4 it would appoint its first chief technologist to a one-year post. Ed Felten, computer science and public policy professor at Princeton University, will take the
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