Category: policy
Oct
01
My first blog post as part of my new job just went up.
In case you missed it, I'm the new senior staff technologist at the [Center for Democracy and Technology](https://www.cdt.org/). In addition to research and tech. translation, we also aim to put… more »
Jul
26
[Yale Braunstein](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~bigyale/), a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, passed away last night.
Yale was a significant influence in reinforcing my interests in information and technology policy. In his Inf… more »
Dec
17
Make no mistake about it, Louis C.K. is one of the funniest humans alive.
The [web has been abuzz](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/something-for-louis-c-k-to-smile-about-his-internet-comedy-special-is-profitable/) this last week about an… more »
Jun
20
Below is my letter to my congressman, [Steve Rothman], asking him to vote against [HR 672], which will be debated tomorrow on the House floor and likely up for a vote on Wednesday. While I've been critical of the Election Assistance Commission (EA… more »
Dec
13
What Government and Content Have in Common via WikiLeaks
open source, secrecy, privacy, research, policy, DRMLike many who work in the area of government transparency and secrecy, I've found the recent WikiLeaks trickle-disclosure to be perplexing. Unlike the popular Twitter meme -- ["I don't know if I'm pro-Wikileaks, but I know I'm anti-anti-Wikileaks"][1]… more »