What You Need to Know About the Fight to Save Net Neutrality
A Q&A with Sarah Morris, director of Open Internet Policy and senior policy counsel at the Open Technology Institute.
November 2017
What does it take to get net neutrality?
We urge the Federal Communications Commission to take its vote to kill net neutrality off the agenda, but our hopes aren’t high. And without these rules, everyday users and small businesses will pay the price, free speech will suffer, and competition and innovation will be eroded.
Using performance analytics in local government (Brookings)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 11/30/2017 - 14:33Apple is sharing your face with apps. That’s a new privacy worry.
Beyond a photo, the iPhone X’s front sensors scan 30,000 points to make a 3D model of your face. That’s how the iPhone X unlocks and makes animations that might have once required a Hollywood studio. Now that a phone can scan your mug, what else might apps want to do with it? They could track your expressions to judge if you’re depressed. They could guess your gender, race and even sexuality. They might combine your face with other data to observe you in stores—or walking down the street. Apps aren’t doing most of these things, yet. But is Apple doing enough to stop it?
President Trump: New York Times a 'pipe organ for the Democratic Party'
President Donald Trump in an early morning tweet accused The New York Times of lobbying for Democrats on tax reform, dubbing the newspaper a "pipe organ for the Democratic Party." "The Failing @nytimes, the pipe organ for the Democrat Party, has become a virtual lobbyist for them with regard to our massive Tax Cut Bill. They are wrong so often that now I know we have a winner!" the president said in a tweet.