Category: Technology & Science
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How Do We Achieve an Open, Secure, Trustworthy, and Inclusive Internet?
The Global Commission on Internet Governance met in Mexico to ask an important question: How can everyone ensure that the Internet lives up to its egalitarian promises? Jeremy Malcolm explores their report.
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Racial Bias and Arrest Tech
Of the many disappointing decisions about surveillance, the recent SCOTUS decision in Utah v Strieff disappoints more than most. Jennifer Lynch and Adam Schwartz reveal the racist bias in contemporary street surveillance.
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The Women That Kill, Abuse and Torture
Marian Partington is working to forgive Rosemary West – one of her sister’s killers – because she thinks the only way to break the cycle of female violence is to understand it. Katharine Quarmby reports.
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The Danger of Corporate Facial Recognition Software
The Illinois biometric privacy statute survived a recent attack. There will be others. What’s at stake? Adam Schwartz schools you.
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FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from its Massive Biometrics Database
Jennifer Lynch considers the absurdity of it all.
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Broadband Privacy Can Prevent Discrimination: The Case of Cable One and FICO Scores
Neutrality also means more freedom from bias. Harold Feld studies an example in the case of FICO.
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The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media, and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
In the patent microcosm — just like the military–industrial complex — a conflict of interests has been created wherein demand is being artificially created for undesirable things, typically for the empowerment of those who are already very powerful. Dr. Roy Schestowitz writes.
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Auto Industry Crosses the Line on 5.9 GHz by Using Dead Pedestrians to Justify Spectrum Squatting
Harold Feld investigates the auto industry’s claims about saving lives by stealing public bandwidth.
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Stakes are High in Oracle v Google
In this short piece about the Oracle vs. Google case, EFF’s Parker Higgins discusses how fair use isn’t enough.
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Eliza Gets Her Gene Therapy
Dr. Ricki Lewis writes of a recent success story in gene therapy for Sanfillipo syndrome.