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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... -
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... -
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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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... - in the news | August 01, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
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... -
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... -
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... -
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 ... -
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 -
Government Spying Hurts Journalists and Lawyers, Report Says | TIME Magazine
New AmericaA report released earlier this month by the New America Foundation argues the NSA deliberately weakens cybersecurity, making online communications,... -
Can Congress Rein in the Spies? | New York Review of Books
New AmericaAnd the same day, the New America Foundation issued Surveillance Costs, a report noting the widespread economic harm to US tech companies that NSA ... -
Is NSA’s PRISM program ruining cloud computing’s growth? | FedScoop
New AmericaDanielle Kehl: The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute said that without reforms, NSA will continue to “cause significant damage to ... -
New Report: Snowden Revelations Hurt U.S. Companies | Wall
New AmericaA new report by the nonpartisan New America Foundation surveyed the revelations’ impact on U.S. businesses. The authors found that the resulting er... -
U.S. tech business losses foreseen if NSA spying isn't curbed
U.S. technology companies are in danger of losing more business to foreign competitors if the National Security Agency's power to spy on customers ... - in the news | July 29, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
How data caps could reshape the economics of the Internet (again)
This idea that you should pay more for greater usage is hardly new. As the New America Foundation noted last year, advocates for usage-based pricin... -
Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveillance | Wired
New America“Too often, we have discussed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs through the distorting lens of a simplistic ‘security versus pri... -
NSA Spying Will Cost US Tech Titans Billions, and That's Just the Start | Motherboard
New America“Too often, we have discussed the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs through the distorting lens of a simplistic ‘security versus pri... -
Leahy's new USA Freedom Act — Out this morning: The costs of surveillance — FCC Commissioners talk telecom policy with MMTC | Politico
AND, NEW THIS MORNING: THE COSTS OF NSA SURVEILLANCE---A lengthy new report from New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute crunches the nu... -
NSA Costs U.S. Tech $35 Billion Over Three Years | BusinessWeek
New AmericaU.S. technology companies are in danger of losing more business to foreign competitors if the National Security Agency’s power to spy on customers ...