{"id":1572,"date":"2007-10-27T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/ebay-spends-2m-lobbying-gov-agencies-including-cia\/1572\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T11:02:45","slug":"ebay-spends-2m-lobbying-gov-agencies-including-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/ebay-spends-2m-lobbying-gov-agencies-including-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"EBay spends $2M lobbying gov agencies including CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News<\/p>\n<p>Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost US$2-million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n<p>According to a database maintained by the Senate&#8217;s public records office, eBay is one of eight groups and companies to lobby the spy agency. The company listed the CIA on a form covering its lobbying activities for the first six months of 2007. Hani Durzy, an eBay spokesman, said that listing was an error.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the company did meet with CIA officials in the second half of 2006 to discuss amendments to a 1994 law &#8212; the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act &#8212; that required Internet phone companies to ensure their equipment can accommodate wiretaps. EBay owns the Internet phone company Skype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost US$2-million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency. According to a database maintained by the Senate&#8217;s public records office, eBay is one of eight groups and companies to lobby the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sicence-technology","7":"tag-cia","8":"tag-internet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}