Appeal filed in NJ voting-machines lawsuit
Paperless (DRE) voting machines went on trial in New Jersey in 2009, in the Gusciora v. Corzine lawsuit. In early 2010 Judge Linda Feinberg issued an Opinion that was flawed in many ways (factually and...
View ArticleACM opens another hole in the paywall
Last month I wrote about Princeton University's new open-access policy. In fact, Princeton's policy just recognizes where many disciplines and many scholarly publishers were going already. Most of the...
View ArticleIs Insurance Regulation the Next Frontier in Open Government Data?
My friend Ray Lehman points to an intriguing opportunity to expand public access to government data: insurance regulation. The United States has a decentralized, state-based system for regulating the...
View ArticleDon't Regulate the Internet. No, Wait. Regulate the Internet.
When Congress considered net neutrality legislation in the form of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (H.R. 5353), representatives of corporate copyright owners weighed in to oppose...
View ArticleA Possible Constitutional Caveat to SOPA
Tomorrow, a hearing in the House will consider H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). There are many frustrating and concerning aspects of this bill. Perhaps most troubling, the current proposed...
View ArticleThe Latest in Nationwide Internet User Identification – Part 1 (The Ancient...
Plaintiffs are engaging in aggressive and questionable new tactics in a growing wave of federal copyright "John Doe" lawsuits. In those lawsuits, the obvious objective of the plaintiffs is to discover...
View ArticleCITP Call for 2012-2013 Visiting Fellows and Postdocs
The Center for Information Technology Policy is an interdisciplinary research center at Princeton University that studies the intersection of digital technologies and society. Each academic year, CITP...
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Governor Genro tops President Obama on Citizen Feedback: "The Governer Asks"...
Something neat is happening in Porto Alegre, Brazil today. Governor Tarso Genro, of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, is meeting with some of his constituents. Of course, that's pretty normal; governors...
View ArticleStopping SOPA's Anticircumvention
The House's Stop Online Piracy Act is in Judiciary Committee Markup today. As numerous protests, open letters, and advocacy campaigns across the Web, this is a seriously flawed bill. Sen. Ron Wyden and...
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Wikipedia Banner Challenge
As you can tell from the banners appearing all over Wikipedia, their fundraiser is in full swing. Despite Wikipedia’s importance as a global resource, only about one in a thousand Wikipedia readers...
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