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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Recently I attended a very interesting conference about high-tech innovation and public policy, with experts in various fields. (Such a conference will be either boring or fascinating, depending on who…
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Does the Great Firewall Violate U.S. Law?
Clayton, Murdoch, and Watson have an interesting new paper describing technical mechanisms that the Great Firewall of China uses to block online access to content the Chinese government doesn’t like.…
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Long-Tail Innovation
Recently I saw a great little talk by Cory Ondrejka on the long tail of innovation. (He followed up with a blog entry.) For those not in the know, “long…
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21st Century Wiretapping: Risk of Abuse
Today I’m returning, probably for the last time, to the public policy questions surrounding today’s wiretapping technology. Thus far in the series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)…
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Freeing the Xbox
When Microsoft shipped its Xbox game console, Linux programmers salivated. The Xbox was a pretty nice computer, priced at $149. The Xbox had all the hardware needed to run Linux…
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Ah, summer, when a man’s thoughts turn to … ski jumping? On Sunday I had the chance to try ski jumping, at the Swiss national team’s training center at Einsiedeln.…
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Syndromic Surveillance: 21st Century Data Harvesting
[This article was written by a pseudonymous reader who calls him/herself Enigma Foundry. I’m publishing it here because I think other readers would find it interesting. – Ed Felten] The…
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The Last Mile Bottleneck and Net Neutrality
When thinking about the performance of any computer system or network, the first question to ask is “Where is the bottleneck?” As demand grows, one part of the system reaches…
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The Exxon Valdez of Privacy
Recently I moderated a panel discussion, at Princeton Reunions, about “Privacy and Security in the Digital Age”. When the discussion turned to public awareness of privacy and data leaks, one…
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Twenty-First Century Wiretapping: False Positives
Lately I’ve been writing about the policy issues surrounding government wiretapping programs that algorithmically analyze large amounts of communication data to identify messages to be shown to human analysts. (Past…