'We need it now': 24,000 people sign petition urging Congress to pass data privacy law

A coalition of civil rights and public interest groups said on Tuesday it is urgent Congress passes data privacy legislation.

Publishers Want To Make Ebooks More Expensive And Harder To Lend For Libraries; Ron Wyden And Anna Eshoo Have Questions

Techdirt has noted in the past that if public libraries didn't exist, the copyright industry would never allow them to be created. Publishers can't go back in time to change history (fortunately). But the COVID pandemic, which largely...

Wyden Warns Millions of Poor Families Could Be 'Denied' Child Tax Credit Unless IRS Acts

Without urgent fixes to a shoddy online application portal, Sen. Wyden warned that many of "America's most vulnerable communities" will not receive the expanded Child Tax Credit.