John Rockefeller

The bill ( S. 21 ) doesn't propose action per se but calls on the legislative branch to affirm through a "sense of Congress" a number of creeds. Among them are that there should exist mechanisms for sharing cyber threat and vulnerability information between the government and the private sector, and that the two should develop a system to "assess cyber risk and prevent, detect, and robustly respond" to attacks against critical infrastructure.

Recognizing the advances of commercial practices and technology over the past decade, including smartphones, the Federal Trade Commission has adopted final amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to reflect the growing presence of websites geared towards kids. Among the changes to the COPPA Rule, the new regulations expand the list of personal information that cannot be collected by websites without parental notice and consent, clarifying that this category includes geolocation information, photographs, and videos.

Congress is bringing some transparency to national security when it comes to releasing maritime security information. Until now, the federal government has gotten away with secrecy when it comes to

There are plenty of people inside and outside of government upset about legislation that would give President Obama the power to shut down the Internet under emergency situations. But the idea sounds