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Online Postings, Personal Info, IP & Privacy
When people post a restaurant review on Yelp, an advertisement for an apartment or an old TV on Craigslist, or a hotel review on TripAdvisor, Yelp, Craigslist, and TripAdvisor all receive value from the posting. Their business models depend on more »
Posted in Beyond, Home, Intellectual Property, Tech & Internet
Tagged A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, copyright, craigslist, data aggregation, Feist, goodwill, intellectual property, internet, linkedin, personal information, privacy, speed limits, trademark, TripAdvisor, user generated content, yelp
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Why You Should Be Scared of TV
Er, the future of TV, at least. Yes. TV has a future, and it is coming fast. You should probably take a second to think about it, because this: Hulu Will Require Cable Subscription Sure, Hulu is heavily comprised of more »
Posted in Beyond, Home, Media
Tagged broadband, cable, hulu, internet, monopolies, net neutrality, television, the future, tv, youcantfightit
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Culture and Disruption
This is a great article: Why a small startup was able to build Instagram, while a company like Eastman Kodak, was not? Culture is the catalyst for disruption. So even though Google or Facebook or Apple could have made Instagram, more »
Posted in Beyond, Home, Tech & Internet
Tagged 1 biiilllionnnn dollllarsss, Culture, disruptive tech, facebook, innovation, Instagram, internet, startups, titanic
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Too Close for Missiles, I’m Switching to Computers
Have you noticed a trend lately? Reports of hacking are pretty much daily now — and they aren’t just inconsequential, trivial things. Most recently, the CIA website. The Commerce Department. FBI phone calls. VeriSign, and other Fortune 500 companies. And more »
Posted in Beyond, Home
Tagged anonymous, CIA, code, Computers, cybersecurity, euphemisms, FBI, hackers, hacking, programming, security breach, the future
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Cryptic Compulsion: the Intersection of Technology and Constitutional Protection
Every US citizen has a constitutional right precluding self-incrimination, which basically means that a criminal suspect cannot be compelled to incriminate himself. With that in mind, here’s a hypothetical for you to mull over: let’s say that you have been more »
Posted in Beyond, Home, Tech & Internet, Topics
Tagged Bank Fraud, Compulsion, Computers, Constitutional Rights, criminal law, Cyber Law, Encryption, Evidence, Fifth Amendment, Order
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SCOTUS Sides with Sanity on GPS Tracking
…and there was much (UNANIMOUS!) rejoicing: Justices say GPS tracker violated privacy rights: The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and more »
Posted in Beyond, Home, Tech & Internet, Technology & Internet
Tagged fourth amendment, GPS tracking, SCOTUS
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