So far, it sounds a lot like privacy 2007 and 2008. But, nevertheless, thanks to the Tech Policy Central folks for pulling together a discussion on Internet privacy today at Facebook HQ that featured Center for Democracy and Technology's Jim Dempsey, Chris Hoofnagle of the Berkeley Center for Law &a...

It’s been a big year for tech policy books. Several important titles were released in 2008 that offer interesting perspectives about the future of the Internet and the impact digital technologies are having on our lives, culture, and economy. Back in September, I compared some of the most popu...

As a great philosopher once said, "time keeps on slipping, slipping into the future." Or maybe it was the lyrics to a song played through millions of dorm room windows in the '80s. I can't remember. But, what I can remember, albeit barely, is the many tech policy relevant occurrence and blog-worthy ...

Over the past year, I have been monitoring a very interesting trend with important ramifications for the future of Internet policy. State Attorneys General (AGs) — often in league with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) — have been striking a variety of “...

I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

As we warned on the second day of this year, even a change in government was unlikely to stem the Australian momentum for a national Web filtering implementation. Though, back then, it seemed as if it may be easy to opt-out. A story today from the Herald Sun suggests otherwise: Australia will join C...

Judge Alex Kozinski is a Romanian American jurist. He is currently Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist and judicial opinion–writer. Unfortunately for him, is has been discover - big surprise! - that he has accesed pornographic material...

Yesterday, I asked how one could assert that the Green Party is nutsy. Allow me to answer my own question with a piece of the Green Party’s tentative policy platform for 2008: All viable candidates at the state and federal levels should have free and equal access to a regulated and neutral int...

I ran across this classic, infamous Time Magazine cover the other day and was blown away that it's now 13-years-old. The story is here. Besides making me think about my own age and what I was doing when I first saw it back in 1995, I had a few thoughts on it (that aren't all necessarily related)... ...

Follow along please.... A prominent Australian recognizes that "consumers are demanding more extensive online, video-based entertainment" and that "we are the 'what, when and how we want it' generation." He then says that require circa-1960s rules that require that 55 per cent of all programs broadc...