Posts Tagged ‘Congress’

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Facebook Offers Rollout Begins, Delivers Local Deals Direct to Your News Feed (The Verge)
The system allows local businesses to use their Facebook pages to promote themselves direct to their customers, sending freebies and promotions straight to users’ news feeds. Gizmodo Following the huge success of services like Groupon and LivingSocial, it was only a matter of time before Facebook got into the business of deals. AllFacebook If anything, the greater novelty isn’t the rollout of offers, but rather the acquisition of Tagtile. Inside Facebook According to Tagtile’s website, its service “helps local businesses identify and engage their customers to increase revenue.” Read more

Finding out how much time our representatives in Washington, D.C. spend on Facebook might interest us if it means they’ll do a better job. iConstituent collaborates with congressional offices to maximize their Facebook use with the purpose of improving their communications with their constituents.
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White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer admitted to Brian Stelter of The New York Times that the deluge of tweets directed toward lawmakers, encouraged last Friday by President Barack Obama, were a factor in the agreement between congressional Democrats and Republicans on the debt ceiling, announced Sunday night.

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Marking a new front in the battle over online privacy, the Obama administration, for the first time, explicitly called on Congress today to approve a “consumer privacy bill of rights” that would regulate the collection of personal data on the Internet. The push from the White House will likely give a boost to the many privacy bills floating in Congress, but what’s next, and what does it all mean for consumers, and constituents? We take a look at the road ahead

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How do you solve a crisis like the federal budget? With a tweet, of course, hoped House Democrats who hosted a Twitter town hall meeting on Thursday to field questions about the budget. And exactly what happens when Members of Congress try to solve a national crisis in 140 characters or less?

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With no fewer than seven pieces of legislation circulating in Congress, the issue of online privacy is back in the news, and hot on Capitol Hill. The latest bills center on the most contentious topics, creation of a ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism that would allow consumers to ‘opt-out’ of targeted online advertising, and mobile privacy. What are the proposals, and what do they mean for you?

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Political news travels fast — it can take more than a few New York Times articles to stay on top of the rumor mill. For news junkies, Twitter is great as an alternative source for journalism… But who should you follow?

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After months of debate and political wrangling, online privacy legislation is now on the table with the introduction of two separate bills in the U.S. House. What are the bills, and how, or even will, they protect you, the Internet user?

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Lobbying numbers are in, Facebook is under scrutiny and online privacy is on the horizon in both the House and the Senate. And, with that, the new Congress has arrived. Here’s the latest you should know on what’s buzzing in the nation’s capital now…

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“Our founding fathers believed a healthy American government would depend on active, informed American citizens.” Issa is opening up a new channel for keeping American citizens informed and it’s none other than YouTube.

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