Stanford CIS

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Counting on Democracy

The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is pleased to present a screening of scenes from “Counting on Democracy,” a new documentary by Stanford…

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NPS

January 2004: Naval Postgraduate School, CISR Invited Lecture Series…

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How antiprivacy is Dean's smartcard?

I like Howard Dean. Don't know if I'll vote for him or not, but I admire his willingness to go out there and get angry. But until a few months ago, I&#…

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democratic discourse

John Palfrey paid me a nice comment on his blog-- but it got me thinking.  He, and others, write their thoughts about digital democracy daily on their blogs.  I…

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the end of the wireless sanctuary

This NYT article explains how millions of wireless users are signing contracts where the fine print allows providers to add them to a phone directory. I like t…

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Copy Left

Excellent summary- style piece in the NYT: The Tyranny of Copyright.  The type of piece you can give your mother to read so she understands why you are not '…

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FOIA's documents

You can find the documents that NASA turned over to EPIC, as well as other information about the Northwest discosures of Passenger data at the EPIC website.…

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Op-Ed Columnist: Democracy at Risk

On January 23, 2004, Paul Krugman wrote in a column for the NYT: Internal e-mail from Diebold, the most prominent maker of electronic voting machines (though n…

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Flexibility in Sentencing?

From the Houston Chronicle we learn that  Judge Larry Standly ordered a man convicted of slapping his wife to take a yoga class as a condition of his probation,…