Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
News about the Epsilon breach has spread relatively slowly. The breach of data held by an email service provider is bad—no question—but it’s not terribly consequential. Emails aren’t generally kept private. But the Epsilon story may soon heat up. The presence of an email address on a list creates inferences about aspects of a person’s [...]
Most of you have probably already seen this but Pingdom recently aggregated and posted some amazing stats about “Internet 2009 In Numbers.” Worth checking them all out, but here are some highlights: 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of Sept 2009; 18% increase in Internet users since previous year. 81.8 million .COM domain names at [...]
What Unites Advocates of Speech Controls & Privacy Regulation? [pdf] by Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka The Progress & Freedom Foundation, Progress on Point No. 16.19 Anyone who has spent time following debates about speech and privacy regulation comes to recognize the striking parallels between these two policy arenas. In this paper we will highlight [...]
In episode #44 of “Tech Policy Weekly,” Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer engage in a debate with Internet security expert Chris Soghoian, who is a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University’s School of Informatics. Chris is an up-and-coming star [...]
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May 28, 2012
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