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Amazon insists federal rules apply to U.S. deliveries by drone

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com, seeking to bolster its efforts to deliver products via drone, said on Tuesday that states and local communities should not be allowed to regulate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) authorized by federal aviation regulators. “Uniform federal rules must apply,” Paul Misener, the e-commerce retailer's vice president for global public policy, said in written testimony released by a U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee ahead of a Wednesday hearing

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Head of hacked U.S. agency says problems ‘decades in the making’

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The head of a U.S. agency that fell victim to cyber attacks defended its performance on Tuesday against withering criticism from lawmakers furious about a breach that compromised the personnel files of millions of federal workers

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French network management firm eyes vast Internet of Things grids

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By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Actility, a supplier of software used to manage far-flung sensor networks dubbed the Internet of Things, said on Tuesday it has taken $25 million in new funding from top European telecom operators and the world’s largest contract electronics maker. The financing round is led by Ginko Ventures, which is in turn backed by Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, along with telecom operators KPN, Orange and Swisscom

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Internet privacy bill gets initial approval in Russian assembly

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Russian parliament gave initial approval on Tuesday to a law that would require Internet search sites to remove outdated or irrelevant personal information from search results on request from users. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its first reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the “right to be forgotten”, under which search engines must take down certain results that appear under a search of a person’s name