From PC World:
The U.S. Congress will face a broad range of technology-related issues, including communications law reform and data-privacy issues, when it returns to work in 2006.
The possibility of a data-breach notification law and a broadband-focused revamp of a decade-old telecommunications law made headlines in 2005, but tech vendors and trade groups are also pushing a range of other proposals, including workforce training programs and patent reform.
Tech trade groups are promoting what some of them call a “full plate,” but that doesn’t mean everything on their wish lists will be gift-wrapped by the 2006 holiday season. Telecom reform could take up a large chunk of Congress’ limited tech bandwidth, and other issues in Washington, D.C., including the Iraq war, could sidetrack tech issues.