Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
In light of the discussion draft of privacy legislation recently released by Chairman Rick Boucher (our comments here and here), PFF is holding a special “Nuts & Bolts” luncheon briefing on the technical underpinnings of the ongoing privacy policy debate on Monday, May 24, 2010, 12-2 p.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. Our panel [...]
Adam Thierer & I offered our initial thoughts upon first reading the discussion draft of the privacy bill introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) & Cliff Stearns (R-FL). In PFF’s latest TechCast, I sat down to discuss the bill and my concerns about it with PFF’s VP for Communications, Mike Wendy: < p style=”text-align: center;”> [...]
I have a lot of respect for danah boyd and have had the pleasure to interact with her when we both served on the Harvard online child safety task force, and at other times. She’s a very gifted social media researcher. But there are three big problems with her argument that Facebook should be treated [...]
Google has just announced that it is ending web-only sales of its unsubsidized Nexus One smartphone. The company had hoped to created a very different kind of business model for mobile phone retailing, but it just didn’t work and so they are ending the experiment. There are a couple of reasons that it probably didn’t [...]
We’ve added a couple of new speakers to next Thursday’s PFF event on “Can Government Help Save the Press?” Again, the event will take place on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 9 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in the International Gateway Room, Mezzanine Level of the Ronald Reagan Building on 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. here in [...]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released it’s latest report on “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey.” For many years, this CDC report has shown a steady rise in “cord-cutting” with a gradual rise in the number of wireless-only homes. But we’ve now reached an important [...]
A 62 year old former gravedigger in Britain bought a steel cakset on ebay and turned it into a sports car.
My dear friend, fellow space/IT/priavcy/communications lawyer and now PFF Adjunct Fellow Jim Dunstan just published this PFF paper, which I thought I’d share with you (PDF) The FCC’s Title II “Lite” (as a Lead Balloon!) & the Looming Broadband Tax by James E. Dunstan, PFF Adjunct Fellow, Progress Snapshot 6.9 FCC Chairman Genachowski has set [...]
A bill introduced in the Senate yesterday would require Congress to bring earmarks out of the shadows, producing earmark data in a format that the public can easily use. S. 3335 calls for a “unified and searchable database on a public website for congressional earmarks.” This is something President Obama called for in his 2010 State [...]
In their 2006 Cato Policy Analysis, Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture, Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter wrote about how the functions that make up the creative cycle—creation, selection, production, dissemination, promotion, sale, and use of expressive content—are undergoing revolutionary decentralization and disintermediation. The only thing professional in the clip below was the [...]
January 27, 2012
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