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draft lawrence lessig for congress
Lawrence Lessig is the originator of Creative Commons and the author of Free Culture, Code 2.0 and the The Future of Ideas. An online campaign has been setup to encourage him to run for the...
View Articlecongressional oversight
via secrecy news: The Government Accountability Office maintains an office at the National Security Agency but it remains unused since no one in Congress has asked GAO to perform any oversight of the...
View ArticleFDR on Security
A good deal of my dissertation is concerned with notions of security, and insecurity, in informational environments. While my primary concern is with young people’s experiences and understandings of...
View ArticleSilicon Alley Insider: Health Insurers Pay Facebook Gamers Virtual Currency...
> From the article: “Health insurance industry trade groups opposed to President Obama’s health care reform bill are paying Facebook users fake money — called “virtual currency” — to send letters to...
View ArticleNY Times: F.C.C. Plan Would Establish High-speed Internet as Dominant U.S....
> From the article: “The blueprint reflects the government’s view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast...
View ArticleWired: Military’s Cyber Commander Swears “No Role” in Civilian Networks
> From the article: “Debates have raged for years in military and policymaking circles about what a Cyber Command might do: drop logic bombs on adversaries, protect the Pentagon’s networks, seal up...
View ArticleNY Times: U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
> From the article: “officials want … all services that enable communications, including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry … sites like Facebook and software … like Skype, to be...
View ArticleWired: Senator Ron Wyden Stops the Combating Online Infringement and...
> From the article: “COICA sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the DNS, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid...
View ArticleTPM: Kerry And McCain Introduce Bill To Protect Privacy Online
> From the article: “The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 would create a framework for how companies can collect, store and distribute personal information, and would require companies...
View ArticleCNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill
> From the article: Bill would force ISPs to keep logs of customers’ activities for 1yr in case police want to review them … to make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents named the bill the...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Architectures of SOPA & PIPA
Two controversial pieces of legislation that would significantly alter the architecture of the internet are currently being debated in congress: the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of...
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