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News about TechAmerica

• Old arguments may bog down US data breach notification legislation

  Questions about preemption of state laws and when companies should report breaches come up again during a hearing

• Federal IT spending decreasing by billions

  Trade group cites sequestration, lack of federal budget; meanwhile, government shutdown is hurting IT vendors, contractors

• US gov't shutdown could take money from IT workers, contracts

  Congress and the Obama administration have until Tuesday to work out a compromise to keep the government open

• Lawmakers push for federal data beach notification law

  Congress still has to work out some details, including whether a federal law would preempt 48 state laws

• Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands

  Less costly young, and long unemployed older developers may be expanding the workforce at less cost to employers

• Obama administration expands open data access

  Agencies must make government data available in open, machine-readable formats, the president says

Features about TechAmerica

• What Obama's re-election may mean for technology

  Expect debates on cybersecurity, copyright, spectrum and privacy in Congress in 2013

• IT employment will finish year in the black

  Tech manufacturing employment experiencing little growth, however