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Reply Comments on 3.5 GHz Citizen Broadband Radio Service
GN Docket No. 12-354
The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation joined Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in sub...
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President Obama comes out in favor of strong open Internet rules
Last week, President Obama made it clear that he supports an open Internet and would be opposed to a system where discrimination that favors "big w...
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Free wifi is coming to LA’s parks, but is that a good thing? | KPCC
Six public parks in the Los Angeles area are about to get a bit more connected---Echo Park Lake, the Griffith Observatory, Cabrillo Beach, Venice B...
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Freedom Act Leaves IT Sector at Risk for Spy Program Costs | E-Commerce Times
"We are looking at billions of dollars of potential losses for U.S. companies as individuals, businesses, and foreign governments turn away from Am...
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The Most Influential of 2014: Edward Snowden | CRN
"Our findings indicate that the actions of the National Security Agency have already begun and will continue to cause significant damage to the int...
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Costs of the NSA | Federal News Radio
It's been more than a year since Edward Snowden first leaked news of the National Security Agency's collecting metadata on Americans. While the jur...
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Cities Are Fighting States over Municipal Broadband | Governing
*Communities don’t raise and spend the large sums of money it takes to jump into the broadband business unless they are unserved or underserved by ...
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WiFi to the Rescue? | The Wave
For Josh Breitbart of the OTI, the success of the mesh network is really up to the community. He says it builds on neighbor-to-neighbor connections...
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SketchFactor app for unsafe areas in racism row | BBC
"Technology is only as good as the people who form part of its developer and user community," Seeta Peña Gangadharan, a senior research fellow at t...
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The Dangers of High-Tech Profiling, Using Big Data
The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterp...
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Privacy Groups Submit Comments to the NTIA on Metadata Privacy Protections
Yesterday, OTI joined a coalition of public interest organizations, including Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and Free Press in submitting comments...
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Why Even the Definition of “Cyber Attack” Matters
Although definitional debates can sometimes seem pedantic, debates over the term “cyber attack” are an important exception. How “cyber attack” is d...
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What's Inside the FCC's E-rate Order?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its E-rate Order in late July, the biggest overhaul of the program since it was created 17 yea...
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Open Data and Transparency
“Open data has many practical and normative implications. Open data policies support an ecosystem of valuable social and political tenet," said Lau...
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The Future Internet World Order | TIME Magazine
Pay attention to the "swing states" that will determine the future of Internet governance, which depends on a reshuffling of the prevailing world o...
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Exporting Surveillance: A New International Security Issue
Network surveillance systems and intrusion software were recently added to the list of conventional and dual-use technologies that are controlled u...
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How the NSA Hurts Our Economy, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Policy| Slate
More than a year after the Snowden revelations, we’re clearly still grappling with the effects of NSA surveillance. Copyright 2014, Slate Read the ...
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Over 40 Advocacy Groups Agree: New USA FREEDOM Act is a Significant First Step to Needed Comprehensive Reform
Last week, OTI, along with a broad coalition of 44 privacy and advocacy groups, sent a letter to Congress supporting Sen. Leahy's new, stronger ver...
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The Myth of Everybody
Dear Civic Tech: If you really want to make change, we can do better. Copyright 2014, Medium Read the article in Medium
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Broad Coalition Including OTI Supports Updated USA FREEDOM Act to Rein In NSA Surveillance
Washington, DC — New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), on behalf of a broad and bipartisan coalition of over forty civil liberties and hum...
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Government Spying Hurts Journalists and Lawyers, Report Says | TIME Magazine
A report released earlier this month by the New America Foundation argues the NSA deliberately weakens cybersecurity, making online communications,...
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Can Congress Rein in the Spies? | New York Review of Books
And the same day, the New America Foundation issued Surveillance Costs, a report noting the widespread economic harm to US tech companies that NSA ...