Nixing Net Neutrality

Published in August 25th, 2006
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This week, a key federal official cautioned against calls for net neutrality, the effort to expand government reach in the Internet marketplace. It’s a wise move to keep the Internet free of red tape. So why are lobbyists pushing for new rules? Net neutrality holds that Internet network providers such as AT&T and Verizon should [...]

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Here Come the Next-Gen Passports

Published in August 18th, 2006
Posted by in Privacy issues, Sonia Arrison Columns
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This week, the U.S. State Department began rolling out “e-passports,” new high-tech documents that bolster border security through identity safeguards. In a dangerous world, upgrading passports is prudent policy that serves the interests of Americans at home and abroad, but not everyone is happy with them. E-passports employ the use of radio frequency identification. RFID [...]

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A Laptop in Every Hut?

Published in August 11th, 2006
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On Tuesday, government officials in India rejected an offer to participate in a much-hyped project to distribute laptops costing US$100 each to the world’s impoverished children. A closer look reveals this scheme to be little more than open source evangelism in the Third World. The laptop project is part of the One Laptop per Child [...]

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