Privacy by Design

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 24, 2012 Nicholas Merrill is tired of waiting for Congress to protect Americans' privacy online So he plans to force the matter by changing the way telecommunication companies do business So he plans to change the way telecommunication companies do business. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

EU Battles Extremes

Staff / Truthdig Jul 31, 2011 The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Justice Dept. Wants Providers to Retain Internet Data

Staff / Truthdig Jan 25, 2011 The Justice Department will ask Congress to make it mandatory for Internet service providers to retain data on their users' activity. Law enforcement officials already can ask for data to be preserved, but Justice would like to have more robust snooping capabilities in order to investigate and prosecute "almost every type of crime." (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The FCC, Net Neutrality and You

Staff / Truthdig Dec 22, 2010 How is one to make sense of the FCC's big vote Tuesday? Does it represent a gain for the net-neutrality cause, or is the corporate takeover of the Web upon us in earnest? Well, one thing seems certain: Nobody is all that happy with the outcome -- except, that is, for some lobbyists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC Set to Vote on Net Neutrality

Staff / Truthdig Dec 21, 2010 It may seem as though the Federal Communications Commission might be onto something with the set of guidelines its members will probably approve Tuesday, but do these rules actually add up to what Sen. Al Franken and other skeptics are calling "fake net neutrality"? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC Tries to Find a (Third) Way

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2010 The FCC has reignited the battle for net neutrality after it requested public comment on three different plans for broadband Internet regulation. The new plans were introduced after a court ruling knocked down FCC measures to oversee Internet service providers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Net Neutrality’s Last Stand

Staff / Truthdig Apr 9, 2010 The future of the Internet looked a little bleaker to Net neutrality advocates this week after a federal appeals court decided that the Federal Communications Commission couldn't stop Internet service provider Comcast from messing with the load times of certain websites (continued) . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Someone Tell Google to Calm Down

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2010 Unsatisfied with running just your searches, browser, e-mail, calendar, documents, videos, cell phone, turn-by-turn navigation, operating system, electricity monitoring, much of the advertising on the Internet and more, Google has announced that it plans to experiment with providing Internet service that is about 100 times faster than what most Americans are used to. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

E-Speech: The (Uncertain) Future of Free Expression

By Aram Sinnreich and Masha Zager Oct 29, 2008 As tools like the Web, e-mail, voice over IP, Internet video, mobile phones and peer-to-peer file sharing become increasingly vital to our lives, limitations on speech and threats to our privacy are becoming increasingly important civil rights issues. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )