The Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee has reopened hearings on possible privacy and security risks posed by using LimeWire and similar peer-to-peer file-sharing applications. The committee on Monday sent letters to Mark Gorton, chairman of The Lime Group, which owns LimeWire; U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; and Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Rep. Edolphus Towns, committee chairman, ordered Gorton and Leibowitz to provide answers to a series of questions by May 4.
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Congress Squeezes LimeWire for Straight Talk on P2P Security
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 22, 2009 02:08 PMThe Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee has reopened hearings on possible privacy and security risks posed by using LimeWire and similar peer-to-peer file-sharing applications. The committee on Monday sent letters to Mark Gorton, chairman of The Lime Group, which owns LimeWire; U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; and Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Rep. Edolphus Towns, committee chairman, ordered Gorton and Leibowitz to provide answers to a series of questions by May 4.