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Blogs Criticizing Doctors- Deal with it!
I understand why doctors are upset that their disgruntled patients are criticizing them online, but in the big picture, isn't this a good thing? The doctor…
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David Olson is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society. David’s current research interests are in the areas of software/business method patent…
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David Levine is a Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Aside from the copyright and fair use areas for which CIS has become known,…
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Dutch Government to build citizen database
The Dutch goverment plans to consolidate all information about its citizens in a centralized database. Introduced as a tool to help to identify troubled childre…
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Welcome to the South Bay
Thanks everyone! I'm new to the area (for clarity, "the area" is the immediate surroundings to Stanford), and love it so far. Alas, the one majo…
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Bruce Schneier on the Best Practices Document
Bruce Schneier has written an interesting and widely-circulated blog entry about TCG's Best Practices document. He is wondering why the document applies to…
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The Go-Fuck-Yourself-Mister-Cheney guy followed home and handcuffed by the Secret Service
It has been suggested that I should be outraged that The Go-Fuck-Yourself-Mister-Cheney guy (Daily Kos for covereage) was followed home by the secret service wh…
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Open Knowledge: Time for South African Education to go ‘Open Source’
Since going open source with software has potential benefits for South Africa it is time to consider a policy shift towards Open Knowledge for South African edu…
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South African government goes Open Source
The South African government has adopted a policy to use open source software as far as possible As a result there will be increased opportunities for local de…
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Open Internet, We Hardly Knew Ye
My Colleague Jennifer Granick is the newest columnest at WiredNews. In her first column, she describes how some innovative websites were able to centralize info…
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The Center for Internet and Society and the Stanford Law and Technology Association present Representative Rick Boucher discussing DC Perspectives on MGM v.…
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Pearson Policy
Siani Pearson, Trusted Computing: Strenghts, Weaknesses and Further Opportunities for Enhancing Privacy, in: Herrmann et al. (eds.), iTrust 2005, Proceedings, S…