For more than a decade, the recording industry has been complaining that online copyright infringement is devastating the music industry. And it's true that the revenues of conventional record labels have plunged in recent years. But if you look at the bigger picture, things don't look so grim.
Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise.
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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.
US phone companies never once challenged NSA data requests
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None of the phone companies that handed over communications metadata in bulk to the National Security Agency ever challenged the agency on its data requests.
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.
Here’s how phone metadata can reveal your secrets
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The National Security Agency’s surveillance program, now being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, only collects metadata about Americans’ phone calls—who they call, when, and how long the calls last. In defending the program, the government has cited a controversial 1979 Supreme Court decision that held that phone records are not protected by the Fourth Amendment because consumers do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their calling records.
RNC votes to exclude CNN, NBC from 2016 presidential primary debates
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The Republican National Committee formally decided August 16 not to partner with CNN and NBC News for any presidential primary debates during the 2016 election cycle, a rebuke of the networks’ plans to air programs about Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Senators lash out at NSA for excessive secrecy
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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) lashed out at “the lack of transparency” surrounding the collection of Americans’ phone records.
Here’s what can go wrong when the government builds a huge database about Americans
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The National Crime Information Center database, maintained by the FBI, provides law enforcement agencies across the country with information they need to do their job, including information about outstanding arrest warrants, gang memberships, firearms records, and much more. According to the AP, it serves 90,000 agencies and receives 9 million data points every day.
Damage to press freedom likely outweighs national security gain
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When the Justice Department launched its investigation of alleged leaks of national security information by the Obama administration a year ago, we were skeptical. Our forebodings have been borne out with the revelation that federal prosecutors have undertaken a broad sweep of the Associated Press’s phone records.