CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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A House subcommittee held hearings this morning about the Berman-Coble peer-to-peer (p2p) hacking bill. I heard the first two hours, but then I had to go give a lecture. The…
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Misleading Term of the Week: "Standard"
A “standard” is a technical specification that allows systems to work together to make themselves more useful. Most people say, for good reasons, that they are in favor of technical…
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Fritz's Hit List #4
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: auto navigation systems. These systems, which display digital maps and compute driving directions, qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the Hollings CBDTPA. If…
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One More on Biometrics
Simson Garfinkel offers a practical perspective on biometrics, at CSO Magazine.
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Washington Post on Biometrics
Today’s Washington Post has an article about the use of biometric technology, and civil-liberties resistance against it. Interestingly, the article conflates two separate ideas: biometrics (the use of physical bodily…
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Wireless Tracking of Everything
Arnold Kling at The Bottom Line points to upcoming technologies that allow the attachment of tiny tags, which can be tracked wirelessly, to almost anything. He writes: In my view,…
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Live On-Line Feed of Tomorrow's House "Piracy" Hearings
Tomorrow (Thu 26 Sept) at 9:00 AM (Eastern time), the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, will hold a hearing on “Piracy Of Intellectual Property On Peer-to-Peer…
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Fritz's Hit List #3
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the Philips digital baby monitor. This product, which transmits audio in digital form from one part of a house to another, qualifies for regulation as…
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Finkelstein on Spam-Blocking vs. Censorware
Seth Finkelstein offers interesting comments on my previous post about the spam-blocking of Schneier’s CryptoGram. I wrote I’m amazed at the number of people who scoff at the feasibility of…
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Schneier's CryptoGram Misclassified as Spam
Seth Schoen reports that Bruce Schneier’s CryptoGram email newsletter is misclassified as spam by SpamAssassin and Razor. Seth Finkelstein explains why SpamAssassin gets it wrong. Schneier’s worst offense, according to…