A panel of experts warned lawmakers on Thursday about the looming threat of a cyber attack emanating from Iran, an increasingly isolated nation that has been linked to numerous attacks against the United States in recent years including a plot last year to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C.

For large multinational companies, or even smaller outfits with modest aspirations of foreign expansion, the patchwork of global laws and regulations governing security and privacy can present a major compliance challenge.

As the Federal Trade Commission prepares to release a new framework of privacy principles to prod the Internet industry toward tighter protections for consumers' online data, one of the agency's commissioners said that she has grown particularly alarmed at the unchecked actions of data brokers to mine, analyze and potentially sell sensitive information.

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Countries that continue to censor the Internet face long-term economic and social costs, with oppression leading to civil unrest and not security, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.