CNET News Daily Podcast: How does Biden rate on tech issues?
A look at Biden's tech voting record, and Denver prepares for the strain on its communication infrastructure.
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As we all know by now, it's an Obama/Biden ticket. But where does the Delaware senator stand on issues of concern to the tech world? CNET News political correspondent Declan McCaullagh, who's on his way to cover the Democratic convention in Denver, checks in.
Plus, unencrypted data on thousands of prisoners in England and Wales goes missing, and while Olympic records were being broken all over the place in the last couple of weeks, QinetiQ claimed Sunday that its propeller-driven Zephyr has set a flight time record of its own.
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Today's stories:
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
How the Democratic convention is getting wired
Data on 84,000 U.K. prisoners is lost
An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops
QinetiQ's Zephyr breaks flight time record for unmanned aircraft