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No Way Out But One
In 1994 Holly Collins became an international fugitive, hunted by the FBI after she grabbed her three children and went on the run. Holly felt she had no choice…
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How Important Is Attribution In Copyright Issues?
Many, many people think that attribution is a key part of copyright law, but in the US it's really not a part of the law at all (with a few tiny, nearly mea…
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Big Brother Wants Your Facebook Password
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump quoted in this BusinessWeek article. If you want to become a state trooper in Virginia, you should probably delete a…
Fight for the Future: Libraries, Tech Policy, and the Fate of Human Knowledge
Keynote talk by Andrew McLaughlin (CIS Non-Residential Fellow) at the 2012 Library Technology Conference held at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (March 14, 201…
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Book Website Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whethe…
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Carnegie Mellon Study on Censorship and Deletion Practices in Chinese Social Media
An interesting study was released earlier this month by a group at Carnegie Mellon University titled “censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.…
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Print Edition of Encyclopedia Brittannica (EB) succumbs to Wikipedia
The news this week that that EB discontinues the print edition of the encyclopedia should not too much of a surprise. This should be seen in a larger context.…
Forno Doubts Cyber Attack Sparked Plunge in U.S. Stocks
Richard Forno, a cyber-security expert and principal consultant at KrVW Associates, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the security…
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Hate Crimes, CyberBullying & The Rutgers Spy Cam Case
The ruling against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi, provides stern warnings regarding the punishment for bu…
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FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court's GPS Ruling
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump interviewed in this NPR story about the FBI struggling with Supreme Court's GPS ruling. Earlier this year, the S…
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Employers Want Facebook Passwords
CIS Affiliate Scholar Woodrow Hartzog interviewed in this CBS-42 story about employers wanting Facebook passwords of their employees: "There are certain th…
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Social Media Put Florida Case In National Spotlight
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Lauren Gelman quoted in this NPR story. The shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida has sparked heated reactions across the…