Banking on Our Privacy
By Bruce B. Cahan on August 31, 2010 at 10:27 am
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: Read more about Banking on Our Privacy
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
By Bruce B. Cahan on August 31, 2010 at 10:27 am
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: Read more about Banking on Our Privacy
By Larry Downes on August 20, 2010 at 5:09 pm
The Progress and Freedom Foundation has just published a white paper I wrote for them titled "The Seven Deadly Sins of Title II Reclassification (NOI Remix)." This is an expanded and revised version of an earlier blog post that looks deeply into the FCC's pending Notice of Inquiry regarding broadband Internet access. You can download a PDF here. Read more about What dangers lurk within the FCC's "Third Way" Proposal?
By Larry Downes on July 21, 2010 at 11:39 pm
If I ever had any hope of “keeping up” with developments in the regulation of information technology—or even the nine specific areas I explored in The Laws of Disruption—that hope was lost long ago. The last few months I haven’t even been able to keep up just sorting the piles of printouts of stories I’ve “clipped” from just a few key sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNET News.com and The Washington Post. Read more about After the cyberlaw deluge, another deluge
By Larry Downes on July 13, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Better late than never, I’ve finally given a close read to the Notice of Inquiry issued by the FCC on June 17th. (See my earlier comments, “FCC Votes for Reclassification, Dog Bites Man”.)
In some sense there was no surprise to the contents; the Commission’s legal counsel and Chairman Julius Genachowski had both published comments over a month before the NOI that laid out the regulatory scheme the Commission now has in mind for broadband Internet access. Read more about What lurks within the Notice of Inquiry on Title II?