Government Reading List

June 26, 2015

The major news overall is the Congressional passage of bills making it likely that Congress will confirm the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade treaty. While in general, free trade is something that earns the support of corporations, the startup community has expressed concerns about the intellectual property provisions that will both hinder innovation and do so in ways that were unable to pass Congress as proposed legislation.

In other news, the French taxi unions have gone to war against Uber, and repercussions of the data breach at the federal Office of Personnel Management continue to reverberate in what's likely the worst American counterintelligence failure in at least a decade.

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France’s Uber-taxi war is on

Nicholas Vinocur - Politico

Clashes between Uber and the taxi unions of France erupted into violence recently. Generally speaking, the French government has sided with the unions. Uber insists it will continue to push growth in the country despite governmental and union action against it.

OPM, Reeling From Federal Data Hacks, Will Hire Cybersecurity Advisor

Julianne Pepitone - NBC

The Office of Personnel Management, the repository of much information about federal employees and contractors, as well as anyone in the private sector who has a security clearance, was the target of malicious network intrusions last year—and recently discovered—that have put much, if not all, of their collected data in outside hands.

Senators rip into OPM director for data losses from major breach

Grant Goss - Computer World

The Office of Personnel Management has suffered an attack on its stored data that represents probably the worst counterintelligence failure by the US federal government in at least a decade. Following the Sony data breach, it's likely to lead to more calls for "cybersecurity" bills that seem poorly understood by the non-technical elected officials or staff offering support.

Verizon, AT&T, WhatsApp rank low in data privacy report

Mario Trujillo - The Hill

EFF put out its annual "Who's Got Your Back" data privacy report, tracking a variety of companies' privacy practices and rules for dealing with governmental data requests.

Calif. regulator says Uber driver is an employee

David McCabe - The Hill

In potentially big news for Uber, a court ruled in a non-precedent setting ruling that a single one of its drivers is an employee, not a contractor, as claimed by Uber. If the ruling is confirmed by other court cases, a class action suit could widely shift Uber's business model from the 1099 (contractor) to the W-2 (employee). Keep an eye on this story.

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