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Banking on Our Privacy
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…
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Craigslist Adult Ads Under Fire
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Michael Krasny of KQED Forum about the legality of Craigslist's adult…
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Paul Allen: Patent Troll or Patent Savior?
I don’t have a great deal to add to coverage of last week’s big patent story, which concerned the filing of a complaint by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ag…
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State-Owned Banks as a Way to Rebuild the Housing and Real Estate Markets
The financial literacy of America has improved markedly, nearly to college level, as a result of the global recession that started in 2007. What about state-ow…
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Prelude To A Book Review: Barbara van Schewick’s Internet Architecture And Innovation
Professor Barbara van Schewick's book, Internet Architecture and Innovation, is reviewed by Danielle Citron on Concurring Opinions: In the next few weeks,…
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Q&A: How Do You Define ‘Privacy Harm’? « Go back Publication Date:
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is interviewed by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries of the Wall Street Journal Digits Blo…
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A nation of know-nothings
Tim Egan on the NYT website: "It would be nice to dismiss the stupid things that Americans believe as harmless, the price of having such a large, messy dem…
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Widespread Taxing Of Bloggers Could Stifle Internet Speech, Internet Speech Advocates Say
Sarah Hinchcliff Pearson, residential fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, is quoted on potentially requiring bloggers to buy a business license if th…
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The Imponderable Privacy Problem, Again
Emotions ran high at this week’s Privacy Identity and Innovation conference in Seattle. They usually do when the topic of privacy and technology is raised, an…
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Obama on covert manipulation of public opinion
"They don't want you to know which interests are paying for the ads. The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are those with something…
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What dangers lurk within the FCC's "Third Way" Proposal?
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…
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He still hasn't walked on water
Eugene Robinson's piece in the Washington Post today (plus Todd Purdum's recent VF piece) got me thinking. Is it impossible for any modern President to…