With the federal government and technology policy shut down in Washington, California is steaming ahead with a series of online privacy laws that will have broad implications for Internet companies and consumers.
Justice Scalia uses the Internet. And he thinks you people on it are narcissists.
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In a lengthy interview with New York Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he uses the Internet -- but doesn't seem particularly thrilled by what he sees.
Black Americans find their voice on Twitter forums
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Like most early Twitter users, many young black Americans initially took to microblogging to follow celebrities or send short, quick messages to friends on their phones, but the site has since grown to become an important forum to discuss broad issues around race in America.
FTC Puts Conditions on Nielsen’s Proposed $1.6 Billion Acquisition of Arbitron
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Media research company Nielsen has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed acquisition of Arbitron may substantially lessen competition.
FCC’s wishy-washy rulemaking might doom net neutrality in court
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When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted the Open Internet Order in 2010 -- forbidding Internet Service Providers from blocking services or charging content providers for access to the network -- there was one thing the FCC was careful not to do. What the FCC did not do is declare that Internet service providers are "common carriers," a classification that could have opened the door to even stricter regulations.
Here’s what you miss by only talking to white men about the digital revolution and journalism
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Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab launched Riptide, a new project about the disruption of journalism by technology.
Consumers worried about NSA intrusions have little recourse
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Consumers worried about the National Security Agency's ability to read even encrypted electronic data have few options, according to cybersecurity and privacy experts. And some experts said the NSA's reported actions to crack the sophisticated technology that masks data traveling over the Internet may have made that information more vulnerable, possibly exposing Web users to criminal hackers.
Verizon-FCC Court Fight Takes On Regulating Net
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Few people would dispute that one of the biggest contributors to the extraordinary success of the Internet has been the ability of just about anyone to use it to offer any product, service or type of information they want. How to maintain that success, however, is the subject of a momentous fight that resumes this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Keeping the Net neutral
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The battle over federal "net neutrality" rules will resume when a federal appeals court takes up the challenge filed by one of the country's largest Internet service providers: Verizon.