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Privacy

Privacy

Ethan Zuckerman on internet censorship and the limits of circumvention

by Jerry Brito on March 8, 2010 • View Comments

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Ethan Zuckerman, Senior Researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, discusses internet censorship and the limits of circumvention technology. The discussion also turns to censorship in China and other countries, Twitter’s role in last year’s disputed Iranian elections, and online public spaces.

Jim Harper and Berin Szoka on privacy and Google Buzz

by Jerry Brito on February 16, 2010 • View Comments

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Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and Berin Szoka, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, discuss privacy and Google Buzz.

The law, cellphones, and your freedom

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 12, 2010 • View Comments

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Should a warrant be necessary before the government can obtain information from your cellphone?

The internet Bill of Rights?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on January 21, 2010 • View Comments

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Secretary of State Clinton has outlined essential internet freedoms that go beyond the Bill of Rights and into universal service.

Security increases, improvement, and insufficiencies

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on January 8, 2010 • View Comments

Policymakers seek for more and better security instead of recognizing the limitations to aggregation.

No Nicknames Allowed

by Gabriel Okolski on December 15, 2009 • View Comments

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A TSA initiative that requires passengers’ boarding pass names to match those on their identification is a needless source of confusion without targeting TSA’s real problems

Won’t you be my (virtual) neighbor?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on December 3, 2009 • View Comments

Does the internet lead to increased social isolation?

Anonymity and the Internet: A Love/Hate Story

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on November 5, 2009 • View Comments

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Online anonymity has given voices but not faces to thousands, enabling opinion without responsibility. Are there self-regulations to reduce this problem?