Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
The phrase, “well, 26 times, but who‘s counting?” has 26 letters and numbers in it. Each one in this Cato@Liberty blog post about the Obama administration’s moves toward implementing Sunlight Before Signing is a link to another post about Sunlight Before Signing. I do like to entertain me. Recall that President Obama promised on the [...]
I have a blog post up at Cato@Liberty today about Senate Democrats’ national ID plans. The thing is nine printed pages long. It doesn’t get my recommendation that you read the whole thing—unless you really jones for identity-systems talk. Here’s a summary: The plan is confusing, disorganized, repetitive, and sometimes contradictory. Summarizing it is a [...]
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—all one paragraph of it—on the Cato@Liberty blog. The upshot: Their promise not to have a national ID database is almost certainly wrong. Sold as a simple quick-fix, it would take decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build, encountering untold complexities beyond what we already know.
Over on the Cato@Liberty blog, I’ve written a piece grading the “high-value data sets” agencies released a few weeks ago on Data.gov. (Agencies are supposed to have “/open” sites up by tomorrow.) The results? Four As, four Bs, seven Cs, eighteen Ds, and eight Fs. Take a look!
Last week, Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig visited the Cato Institute for a lunchtime talk he had sought through Julian Sanchez. Fellow TLFer Julian discussed the substance of the visit on the Cato@Liberty blog. I discussed the real purpose of the visit as I interpreted it, and Professor Richard Epstein had a comment, too. He finds [...]
Over on the Cato@Liberty blog, I’ve done a fairly lengthy write-up of the Google Flu Trends privacy issue. It’s an important problem that I think deserves a little more than dismissal. My conclusion: “The heart of the problem lies not with the current leader in search, or any other Internet innovator. The problem lies with [...]
Over on the Cato@Liberty blog, I’ve highlighted some recent talk of a creating a national ID system for voting. Worrisome thinking from people who should be more circumspect. “A Breezy Slide From Vote Integrity to National ID” is the post.
I’ve run across the most curious thing today. Searches on Google that should turn up the Cato@Liberty blog (at http://www.cato-at-liberty.org) do not return any result with that URL in it. Berin took great care the other day to report on the temporary demotion of some Progress & Freedom Foundation content by the Google search engine. [...]
February 13, 2012
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