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Radio Moon Bounce
Everybody loves a good moon bounce. Today's moon bounce didn't involve taking your shoes off and jumping, but it was every bit as fun (if you are a geek). Every so often, when the moon is in the right...
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Happy Broadband NOFA Day
NTIA and RUS issued the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for stimulus-related broadband grants.Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities ProgramState Broadband Data and...
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Balancing Access and Privacy: Free PACER
The latest issue of AALL Spectrum has an essay on PACER. It's fairly conservative in its recommendations, but certainly captures the issues and suggests some positive steps.Balancing Access and...
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Can Parties Sue Counsel for Wrongful Publication of Personal Information?
Spam Notes has a good summary of a recent decision on the matter.The Killians filed for bankruptcy in 2005 and Green Tree (on its own, not through a lawyer) filed a proof of claim which attached a...
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RECAP the law
I'm proud to announce the launch of a new project that I've been working on with my colleagues at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.RECAP is an extension to the popular Firefox web...
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My New Working Paper on PACER
Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts’ Budget: An OverviewStephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Abstract: This draft working paper...
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AO and GPO to Host A Discussion on PACER Pilot "Lessons Learned"
I'm curious about what this will entail.At its September 2007 session, the Judicial Conference endorsed a joint pilot between the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the...
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Android Open Source Model Has a Short Circuit
Last year, Google entered the mobile phone market with a Linux-based mobile operating system. The company brought together device manufacturers and carriers in the Open Handset Alliance, explaining...
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Let's Hear it for Renegade Law Librarians!
Video: Interview with Stephen Schultze, co-creator of RecapToday, Stephen Schultze and Harlan Yu from the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton, and two of the creators of the Recap...
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The FCC Releases an Improved Electronic Filing System: ECFS 2.0
This is a super-wonky item, but I am truly excited. This morning, the FCC went live with a new version of its Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS). Anyone who has worked on policy issues that touch...
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The Internet and Common Carriage
I spent this past weekend at the Silicon Flatirons broadband conference in Boulder. The gathering draws telecom lawyers, academics, and advocates for a discussion about policy issues in broadband. The...
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Google Buzz Blowback
The story of the week from my perspective has been Google Buzz and the various privacy concerns it raised. It seems clear that Google did not think this one through entirely. The best critique of the...
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How Do You Trust On the Web?
Over at Freedom to Tinker, I've done a post outlining different models for web security trust models. This issue intersects with policy because it helps determine who we trust with our...
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My Latest Thoughts on the PACER Debate
Over at Freedom to Tinker:Round 2 of the PACER Debate: What to ExpectThe next round of the PACER debate will be over whether or not we make a fundamental change in access to federal court records, or...
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E-Government Oversight Committee Writes Appropriators About PACER Fees
The Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has oversight over the implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002. Chairman Lieberman just sent a letter (PDF) to the Senate...
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Summary of "The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access"
[Update: the video and transcripts for Panel 1 and Panel 2 are now posted]Today I attended the "The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access" event in DC. These DC policy events tend to have more talking...
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What Does It Cost to Provide Electronic Public Access to Court Records?
US Courts have long faced a dilemma. Public access to proceedings is essential to a well-functioning democracy. On the other hand, providing public access requires expenditure of funds. Charging for...
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New Post at FTT on FCC Drama
I just posted over at Freedom To Tinker.Broadband Politics and Closed-Door Negotiations at the FCC The last seven days at the FCC have been drama-filled, and that's not something you can often say...
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Private Information in Public Court Filings
Court proceedings are supposed to be public. When they are public and easily accessible, citizens know the law and the courts are kept accountable. These are the principles that underpin RECAP, our...
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I Got Interested in Web Authentication and Security
Lately there have been some interesting developments in the fundamental structure of web security, and I've gotten involved in discussing how they are coming together. I did a post earlier this year on...
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Things Have Been Quiet Around Here
My rate of posting here has slowed down in the past year as my day job at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy has consumed more of my time. I've also been posting more regularly on the...
View ArticleDear Craig: Voluntarily Dismiss with Prejudice
[Cross-posted on Freedom to Tinker]Last summer, Craigslist filed a federal lawsuit against the company Padmapper (and some related entities). Padmapper.com is a site that, among other things, allows...
View ArticleA Response to Jerry: Craig Should Still Dismiss
[Cross-posted on Freedom to Tinker]Jerry Brito has a new post on the Reason blog arguing that I and others have been too harsh on Craigslist for their recent lawsuit. As I wrote in my earlier post,...
View ArticleArlington v. FCC: What it Means for Net Neutrality
[Cross-posted on Freedom to Tinker]On Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Arlington v. FCC. At issue was a very abstract legal question: whether the FCC has the right to interpret the...
View ArticleI Join the EFF and Others in Calling for Craigslist to Drop CFAA Claims
[Cross-posted on Freedom to Tinker]Craigslist is suing several companies that scrape data from Craigslist advertisements. These companies, like Padmapper and 3taps, repurpose the data in order to...
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