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  • Apple refused China request for source code in last two years: lawyer

    04/19/2016 11:19:01 AM PDT · by Swordmaker · 7 replies
    Reuters ^ | April 19, 2016 | BY DUSTIN VOLZ
    Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so, the company's top lawyer told U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday. Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell made the statement in response to a line of attack from law enforcement officials who have attempted to portray Apple as complicit in handing over information to Chinese authorities for business reasons while refusing to cooperate with U.S. requests for access to private data in criminal investigations. Apple Inc and the FBI returned to Washington to testify before lawmakers about...
  • Dems: IRS Discriminates Because It Needs More Money

    06/05/2013 5:02:19 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 5, 2013 | Ben Shapiro
    It must be nice to be a leftist. The solution to every problem is more of someone else's money. That's the favored solution over on the Democratic Party side of the aisle when it comes to the IRS' targeting of conservative non-profits. In a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano of New York suggested, "There is no clearer way to promote more scandals than by cutting funding that could be used for oversight, training and reform. At the level of this subcommittee is funded right now, we're just asking for more trouble at the IRS and elsewhere." This...