36 stories tagged legislation, newest first.
373 points by guiambros | 171 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a New York bill requiring games be sold as owned goods rather than licenses and remain functional after publisher support ends.
81 points by awoodbeck | 25 comments
A 404 Media article reporting that lawmakers introduced several bills to restrict Flock's license plate reader surveillance following the outlet's reporting.
402 points by paimapi | 267 comments
Truthout news article on Sen. Elizabeth Warren introducing a bill to ban private equity firms from owning medical practices.
428 points by hn_acker | 152 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that California's proposed 3D printer surveillance requirements can still be stopped and urging action against them.
477 points by hmokiguess | 153 comments
House of Commons of Canada e-petition e-7416 calling for the withdrawal of Bill C-22, open for signatures.
995 points by rbanffy | 435 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on a proposed amendment exempting Linux from California's upcoming OS age-verification law, by the law's original author.
451 points by salkahfi | 389 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing against proposed California legislation that would restrict or censor 3D printing.
373 points by smurda | 266 comments
Wired article reporting that OpenAI testified in favor of an Illinois bill limiting when AI labs can be held liable for critical harms caused by their models.
770 points by enriquelop | 225 comments
GitHub repository publishing over 8,600 Spanish laws as Markdown files, with each legislative reform recorded as a Git commit.
761 points by WalterSobchak | 649 comments
PC Gamer article on a new California law requiring operating systems, including Linux, to include some form of age verification at account setup.
504 points by giuliomagnifico | 210 comments
Nieman Lab article about a proposed New York bill requiring disclaimers on news content generated by AI.
621 points by ptorrone | 733 comments
Adafruit blog post on a New York budget bill provision requiring "blocking technology" on all 3D printers; captured page shows a Cloudflare verification screen.
561 points by gslin | 320 comments
EFF Deeplinks article by Rindala Alajaji criticizing lawmakers' proposals to ban or restrict VPNs as technically uninformed.
540 points by walterbell | 309 comments
National Post opinion piece on a Canadian bill allowing internet access to be cut off for 'specified persons' without a warrant; page loaded as a 403 CSRF error.
368 points by Teever | 192 comments
CNBC Make It article about a tech worker frustrated by ghost job ads who is campaigning for a national law banning them.
354 points by doener | 146 comments
EFF Deeplinks post by Hayley Tsukayama and Cory Doctorow announcing that Washington State has enacted right-to-repair legislation.
905 points by hn_acker | 262 comments
EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.
578 points by hn_acker | 358 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing that age verification bills have expanded from porn sites to products like skin cream, threatening privacy and enabling surveillance.
430 points by LorenDB | 129 comments
iFixit news article reporting that with a Wisconsin bill, Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced in all 50 US states.
425 points by soundworlds | 246 comments
404 Media article on a bill from Senator Josh Hawley that would impose penalties, including jail time, for downloading Chinese AI models like DeepSeek.
403 points by speckx | 142 comments
FedScoop article reporting that President Biden signed the bipartisan SHARE IT Act requiring US federal agencies to share custom source code with each other.
401 points by rmason | 93 comments
Colorado Times Recorder news article reporting that Gov. Jared Polis signed a right-to-repair bill expanding consumers' options to fix electronics.
525 points by Lariscus | 132 comments
Techdirt article reporting Oregon became the seventh state to pass a right-to-repair law, including a parts-pairing ban that Apple lobbied against.
331 points by jbegley | 712 comments
New York Times article reporting that the US House passed a bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States.
383 points by vinnyglennon | 578 comments
ABC News article reporting that the Florida House passed a bill banning social media accounts for children under 16, sending it to the state Senate.
355 points by thunderbong | 247 comments
Ars Technica article on California passing a right-to-repair bill requiring manufacturers to supply parts for seven years and repair shops to disclose non-authorized parts.
447 points by walterbell | 316 comments
The Record news article on a U.S. Senate bill developed with the DEA that would require tech companies to report drug activity, threatening end-to-end encryption.
500 points by pondsider | 122 comments
WSJ article on a proposed Massachusetts law that would be the first U.S. ban on selling cellphone location data.
377 points by u2077 | 331 comments
Peoples Gazette news article reporting that France passed a bill letting police remotely activate suspects' phone cameras, microphones and GPS.
422 points by Kon-Peki | 236 comments
Full enrolled text of Illinois HB3902, the Drones as First Responders Act, amending the Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act governing police drone use.
746 points by hhs | 200 comments
Ogletree Deakins law firm article from June 2023 reporting that the New York State Senate passed a bill prohibiting non-compete agreements.
500 points by toomuchtodo | 275 comments
Grist article reporting that Microsoft quietly supported right-to-repair legislation and explaining why that matters for device repairability.
543 points by FridayoLeary | 136 comments
Ars Technica article on Colorado's governor signing a law requiring tractor makers to provide repair parts, embedded software, and documentation, opposed by John Deere.
392 points by hubraumhugo | 80 comments
WIVB/Associated Press news article reporting that Colorado became the first state to pass a right-to-repair law for farm equipment, signed by Gov. Jared Polis.
481 points by kwiens | 96 comments
iFixit news article reporting that Colorado approved the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill for farm equipment like tractors.
485 points by WUMBOWUMBO | 440 comments
Congress.gov page for S.686, the RESTRICT Act, a 118th Congress Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner, introduced March 7, 2023 and referred to the Commerce Committee.