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Addicted to conflict
"There's plenty of evidence to support that we don't need to fight... it's almost like we're addicted to the fight... the media is very con…
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Aguiar v. Webb
Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb’s promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infringe…
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Backstage drama at Wikipedia DE
This is a fascinating case study of an in depth online dispute involving a very tech savvy and high profile team. Mathieu von Rohr in Speigel Online: "It…
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Conference about the Future of News
Next week, the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society (CIS) is hosting a conference titled The Future of Journalism: Unpacking the Rhetoric. The…
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The New York Times swings and misses on broadband "reclassification"
I have a long opinion piece on CNet today, arguing that much of the talk of “reclassifying” or “relabeling” broadband Internet access to bring it under the FCC’…
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Stanford Project Aims To Gauge Online Privacy
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on the launch of WhatApp?, a website that reviews how well web applications…
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The price we pay for civilization
James Carroll in the Globe: "We may dislike the tax bite, but we loathe the destruction of civic pillars and the deliberate unraveling of safety nets. Citi…
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Court Decision Could Lead FCC To Redefine Internet
Professor Barbara van Schewick talks to reporter Emily Badger about FCC Internet policy and net neutrality: A federal appeals court in D.C. earlier this week t…
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Care To Share Your Credit Card Statement?
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society talks to KALW's Martina Castro about online privacy in light of blippy.com, a site…
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Thanks from WhatApp.org!
The response to WhatApp.org has been wonderful, thanks! We now have over 20 registered and approved experts from a wide variety of sectors, including privacy c…
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How morality feeds poisonous partisanship
Robert Samuelson today: "...the public agenda gravitates toward issues framed as moral matters. Global warming is about "saving the planet." Abor…
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Unvarnished Revisited (& Updated)
UPDATE: Unvarnished changed its privacy policy, addressing some of the problems I mentioned. Thanks! I recently wrote about my disappointment in Unvarnished’s…