information policy

information policy, legalese and legwork
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Email edition
12.20.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Appeals Court holds that email privacy is covered by Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure. This line of reasoning will continue to hold up as we see more cases on the matter. Read more from the EFF.

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information policy, polity pow-wows
Nailed it
10.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

‎”Tools are what make us human. If you want to be truly human, you need control over your tools.” – Tim Wu (Columbia Law) on the existential imperative of building open networks and devices.

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information policy, mine media minutia
AYP rules everything around me
09.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Just gave my first presentation in a while.

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information policy, polity pow-wows
OMG Obama was on Twitter, Part II: The Governance
02.23.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

There’s been recurrent discussion of the tech-savvy of Obama’s campaign and transition team. An early legislative manifestation of this tuned-in-ness appears in the “implementation instructions” of last week’s stimulus bill. The instructions mandate that agencies report the specific allocation of funds in a feed. “For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula [...]

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Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy, mine media minutia, polity pow-wows
We have a winner: LeRoy E. Myers
03.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Ted Stevens honorary Lawmaker of the Week Award: LeRoy E. Myers, Jr, Maryland House of Delegates, District 1C Open Curtain: LeRoy sits down in his bedroom to watch several torporous hours of old M*A*S*H episodes on YouTube before slipping into an empty vastness of sleep. We watch as he heaves a familiar end-of-the-day sigh, kicks [...]

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Intellectual Property and Culture, information policy
Creative Jets from Brazil: an early model of open information policy
03.23.07 | Permalink | 76 Comments

Litman made a brief mention of how other nations are opening up their information policy as the U.S. codifies more and more mechanisms of control.(find page) She stops with that assertion, however, and leaves the details hanging. This brevity of mention make sense given her focus on specific digital copyright law rather than broader information [...]

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