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Good News & Bad News

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Networking+and+Internet&articleId=9128663&taxonomyId=16 Over the past week there’s been good news for freedom and privacy on the internet. First-off, the FCC is threatening to sue corporations that do not meet adequate standards of securing against pretexting. (That’s where a company will pretend to be law enforcement and ask for private data on customers from an ISP or [...]

Thoughts on Genachowski and FCC

It’s pretty-much official now: Obama will appoint Julius Genachowski as chairman of the FCC.  Juding by his past professions and views, he may be not be a Lessig but he is certainly someone to look forward to. Genachowski’s served as General Counsel to Clinton’s FCC chairman Reed Hundt, then went on to run numerous online [...]