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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Last week I wrote about needle-in-a-haystack problems, in which it’s hard to find the solution but if somebody tells you the solution it’s easy to verify. A commenter asked whether…
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Needle-in-a-Haystack Problems
Sometimes the same idea comes flying at you from several directions at once, and you start seeing that idea everywhere. This has been happening to me lately with needle-in-a-haystack problems,…
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Release Government Data, Early and Often
One of the key axioms of modern open government is that all public data should be published online in a raw but usable form. Usability in this case is aimed…
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Google Publishes Data on Government Data and Takedown Requests
Citizens have long wondered how often their governments ask online service providers for data about users, and how often governments ask providers to take down content. Today Google took a…
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April 27 Workshop at Princeton CITP: Internet Security, Internet Freedom
On April 27th, the Center for Information Technology Policy is hosting a one-day workshop on campus here at Princeton. We invite you to attend. Here is the summary of the…
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Flash, Scratch, Ajax: Apple's War on Programming
Any ambitious regulatory scheme will face pressure to expand, in order to protect the flanks of the main regulation against users’ workarounds. Apple’s strategy of regulating which apps can run…
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What Open Data Means to Marginalized Communities
Two symbols of this era of open data are President Obama’s Open Governance Initiative, a directive that has led agencies to post their results online and open up data sets,…
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iPad: The Disneyland of Computers
Tech commentators have a love/hate relationship with Apple’s new iPad. Those who try it tend to like it, but many dislike its locked-down App Store which only allows Apple-approved apps.…
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CITP Expands Scope of RECAP
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the next version of our RECAP technology, dramatically expanding the scope of the project. Having had some modest success at providing public access to legal…
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Pseudonyms: The Natural State of Online Identity
I’ve been writing recently about the problems that arise when you try to use cryptography to verify who is at the other end of a network connection. The cryptographic math…