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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The FCC has released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Internet wiretapping. (Backstory here.) The NPRM outlines a set of rules that the FCC is likely to issue, requiring…
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WSJ Opposes Induce Act
The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial today, has come out against the Induce Act. (Sorry, I don’t have an online pointer to the editorial, since I’m not a subscriber.)
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Online Principles
Susan Crawford recently proposed a list of “online principles” to guide development of the online world. Seth Finkelstein comments, “Been there, done that, doesn’t work”; but John Palfrey counters that…
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State AGs Warn P2P Vendors
Yesterday, the National Association of [state] Attorneys General sent a letter to P2P United, a trade association of peer-to-peer vendors, chiding the P2P industry for fostering porn, spyware, and copyright…
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Lawprofs Predict Future of Copyright Law
Tim Wu, guest-blogging over at Larry Lessig’s site, reports: So today copyright scholar Joe Liu at Boston College asked a room full of law professors an interesting question. What did…
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Kerry and Copyright
Tim Wu, guest-blogging on Larry Lessig’s site, asks hypothetically whether President Kerry would veto the Induce Act. Tim, quoting some vague pro-technology language from Kerry’s website, suggests that Kerry might…
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Apple Threatens Real
Pay attention now, ’cause this story gets kinda complicated. See, Apple had this product called iPod that lets you listen to music. That sounds like a good idea. But Apple…
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Blogiversary
Monday was the second anniversary of Freedom to Tinker. Two years seems like a long time, but I still enjoy doing this. Thanks to all of you for your attention,…
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Wiretapping the Net
Another interesting day at the Meltdown conference. John Morris of CDT gave an eye-opening talk about online wiretapping and the policy debate over how to apply CALEA to VoIP services.…
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Too Much Spam, Not Enough Identification
Lots of good stuff yesterday at the Meltdown conference. Rather than summarize it all, let me give you two random observations about the discussion. The security session descended into a…