"“Furthermore, given how broadly it's possible to define the word ‘tip,’ we have no information on how useful those thousand tips were,” Brian Pascal,…
Cross-posted from Forbes. The anti-whaling movement failed and failed, until it didn’t. The movement took off when, in the late nineteen-sixties, scientists a…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow and member of the school's Center for Automotive Research, has been looking into and blogging on those issues.…
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. Inte…
A few days ago, the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) industry was able to successfully lobby (via Halliburton) to weaken North Carolina's proposed fracking…
"“Some of the most disturbing revelations that came out over the last few months were the ones surrounding the NSA's attempts to weaken or circumvent e…
""Because they've negotiated this with the government, we still don't even have a concrete sense of the number of the things" they hand o…
""It’s a good first step, but it is not nearly as far as his Review Group recommended nor as far as Congress has proposed," Michelle Richardson,…
Cross-posted from Slate. The president on Friday will give a long-awaited speech addressing what he intends to do about National Security Agency surveillance p…
""We are no longer seen as a safe business climate," said Aleecia M. McDonald, director of privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet and Soci…
Listen to the full interview here: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2014/01/16/bonus-barbara-van-she... Could your ISP intentionally slow down Netflix o…
""AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast will be able to deliver some sites and services more quickly and reliably than others for any reason," telecommu…