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BELLEVUE, Wash., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York Senator Charles Schumer's remarks over the weekend about provisions that could be added to an alternative bill regarding background checks are "demonstrably false and delusional," the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. The perennially anti-gun Schumer told reporters that a concealed carry reciprocity amendment that may be offered to the alternative bill sponsored by Senators Joe...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com Steve Jobs may or may not have once declared “thermonuclear” war on Google’s Android. Now, it seems the two California companies have found themselves in a brand new kind of battle. The two smartphone makers are accustomed to duking it out over marketshare and units sold. How they got into the almost yawn-worthy battle of Mapping could be less interesting than the battle itself, if that’s even possible. So, while Apple has left Google to make their...
A US senator is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a probe into Apple Inc and Google Inc after reports that applications on both companies’ phones allowed photos and contact information to be hijacked. Senator Charles Schumer, Dem-NY, made the request after initial prodding from other lawmakers over Apple’s privacy policy changes. In a previous report by the New York Times, it was revealed that app developers could manipulate the location sharing feature in...
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today's hearing on Operation Fast and Furious before the Senate Judiciary Committee once again provided an opportunity for two leading Senate gun prohibitionists to try spreading the blame for botched gun trafficking, and change the debate to arguments for more gun control, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. The committee questioned Attorney General Eric Holder for two hours on Fast and Furious,...
On Sunday, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer became the third lawmaker to protest a recent change to OnStar's terms of service that allows the automotive communication service to continue tracking a driver's speed and location, even if they have cancelled their subscription to the service. According to Michael Gormley of the Associated Press (AP), Schumer has called the practice "one of the most brazen invasions of privacy in recent memory." He joins Senate colleagues Chris Coons of...
Senator Charles Schumer is calling on major websites in the United States to make their pages more secure to protect those connecting from Wi-Fi hotspots, various media outlets are reporting.In a letter sent to Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and others, the Senator, a Democrat representing New York, asked the websites to switch to more secure HTTPS pages in order to help prevent people accessing the Internet from public connections in places like restaurants and bookstores from being targeted by...
Senator Charles Schumer unveiled a bill on Sunday that would ban two drugs that produce a "meth-like" high and are being sold under the name "bath salts.""These so-called bath salts contain ingredients that are nothing more than legally sanctioned narcotics, and they are being sold cheaply to all comers, with no questions asked, at store counters around the country," Schumer, a New York Democrat, said in a statement.He said he will introduce a bill to outlaw the two synthetic drugs being...
Senators say that they are on the verge of what some are calling "a Christmas miracle"--the passing of a bill designed to help people who fell ill in the aftermath of the September 11 World Trade Center attack cleanup efforts."We are on the verge of a Christmas miracle," New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told the Associated Press (AP) on Monday. Gillibrand, who along with fellow Democrat Charles Schumer have proposed a lower-cost alternative to the James Zadroga 9/11...
A senator asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sunday to reveal findings on a possible link between a chemical found in most sunscreens and skin cancer. The FDA has been reviewing data from several studies on a potential link between retinal palmitate (RP), a common sunscreen additive, and cases of skin cancer. However, Senator Charles Schumer said no rulings or guidelines have been issued yet. "With the recent reports suggesting a possible link between skin cancer and a...
LOS ANGELES, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Proposed legislation to tax customer service calls forwarded overseas would burden already-struggling American businesses and would decrease U.S. exports, the CEO of TollFreeForwarding.com warned today. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is proposing a new law that would require American businesses to notify callers that their call was being forwarded overseas and add a $.25 tax to each call. "It is nearly impossible to tax a non-U.S. company,...
