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Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)

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...

https://cdt.org/
Challenge to the Child Online Protection Act

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...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/ss/1999/0126
Concern Grows over Privacy on the Internet

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...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2006/0127
Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy

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...

https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/OPP/working_papers/oppwp2...
INET '97 Proceedings

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.

https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/resolution...
KickStart Initiative: Connecting America's Communities to the Information Superhighway

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...

https://www.benton.org/archive/publibrary/kickstart/home.htm...
OpenNet Initiative

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...

https://opennet.net/
Supreme Court Rules on Internet Pornography Law

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...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2004/0702