The Center For Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization, offers this Web site with information about the state of free speech and civil liberties on the Internet. Visitors to the site will find current headlines, updated every few days, as well as coverage of issues related to privacy, terrorism, cryptography, infrastructure, and digital telephony, among others. Back...
This week's In the News focuses on the disputed Child Online Protection Act (COPA). The eight resources discussed provide news, commentary, analysis, and primary material. Last Wednesday in a US District Court in Philadelphia, proceedings began in a hearing that will determine the future of the controversial COPA. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton last October as part of...
Why Google Won’t Give In
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/2006/01/24/internet-search-porn_cx_ckrr_0124google.html
Google censors itself for China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm
I’m not nuts: they really are out to get you
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2006482,00.html
The Coming Tug of War Over The...
This report, FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Office of Plans and Policy (OPP) Working Paper No. 29, by OPP's Kevin Werbach, "represents the first comprehensive assessment of the questions the Internet poses for traditional communications policy." The paper addresses three major topics: "category difficulties," (Internet services "do not fit easily into the existing classifications for...
INET '97 focused on some of the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues surrounding the use of Internet technology and this site allows users to view the text of these proceedings.
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) produced this final report with respect to the KickStart Initiative for connecting America's communities to the Information Superhighway. KickStart Initiative contains sections on Connecting People and Communities to the Information Superhighway, A Leadership Guide to Getting There, A Resource on Intellectual Property, Privacy, and...
A number of organizations are actively concerned with monitoring the ways in which various governments have attempted to limit or restrict access to the Internet, and the OpenNet Initiative is one such group. Drawing on a collaborative partnership with four academic institutions (including the University of Toronto and Harvard Law School), the group's aim is "to excavate, expose and analyze...
The current session of the Supreme Court ended this week, and included a number of heavily debated cases, including the long-standing debate over the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which has never actually been in effect. In its decision, the Court ruled 5-4 against giving the U.S. government the ability to enforce this latest version of a criminal law that requires commercial websites to...