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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LawMeme is running a wonderful continuing feature, written by James Grimmelmann, to teach non-lawyers, and especially techies, how to read a legal brief: Future lawyers spend three years in law…
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Garfinkel on Wireless Tags
Simson Garfinkel has an interesting short article in Technology Review about wireless tags. He advocates a sort of consumers’ bill of rights, that would protect people against being observed or…
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Fritz's Hit List #10
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the remote controlled fart machine. When a remote control is pressed, this device emits one of five prerecorded fart noises. Because these noises are stored…
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My Testimony on the Berman-Coble Bill
Today I submitted written testimony that will be included in the record of last week’s House hearings on the Berman-Coble bill.
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Doubletalk from MediaDefender?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that MediaDefender has been sending cease-and-desist letters to universities, identifying the IP addresses of specific computers that are alleged to be offering copyrighted movies…
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Misleading Term of the Week: "Rights"
A “right” is a legal entitlement – something that the law says you are allowed to do. But the term is often misused to refer to something else. Consider, for…
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Slashdotted!
Sorry for the outage yesterday. A Slashdot item about Fritz’s Hit List drove enough traffic here to use up our full bandwidth allocation for the month. I’ve put another quarter…
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Fritz's Hit List #9
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: digital hearing aids. These hearing aids receive, process, and retransmit audio in digital form, so they qualify for regulation as “digital media devices” under the…
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"Digital Media Device" Definition from the Hollings CBDTPA
Several readers have asked me to post the precise definition of “digital media device” from the Hollings CBDTPA. Here it is: DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICE. – The term “digital media device”…
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Fritz's Hit List #8
Today on Fritz’s Hit List: the TinkleToonz Musical Potty. This handy toilet training aid offers a “magical, musical land of potty training,” by playing a tune whenever liquid is deposited…