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“e-Deceptive Campaign Practices”

Oct 19, 2008

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in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)’s Technology and Democracy 2.0 report on “e-Deceptive campaign practices” is getting released on Monday, along with a parallel report from Common Cause and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights covering the legal and policy issues.Â Contributors include computer security legends like Peter Neumann (of Bell Labs, SRI and comp.risks fame)…

CFP08 trip report (2): Dear Potus 08

May 29, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing

Part 2 of a series; please see CFP08: trip report for part 1 If the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy community wrote a letter to the next President of the United States about our priorities for technology policy, what would we say — and how would we get him or her to read it? There’s only…

CFP08: trip report

May 25, 2008

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jon

in Personal, political, privacy, Professional, social computing

Part 1 of a series Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 ended with me presenting Dear Potus 08 and circulating the letter to the presidential candidates for signatures, and then a closing plenary by Clay Shirky (notes below). It was exhiliarating as always, and I’m now simultaneously exhausting, revved up, and suffering from jet lag. So…

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008: showtime!

May 20, 2008

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jon

in political, privacy, Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

CFP2008 traditionally starts off with a day of tutorials. I was on a panel organized by Lillie Coney of EPIC on E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: â€œElections 2.0″, which was extremely interesting; I discussed examples of, and responses to, e-deception based on my activism experiences this election season, much of which I’ve blogged about here already. Tova…

E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: “Elections 2.0”

May 18, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing, Uncategorized

I’m at a tutorial on Tuesday discussing “elections 2.0” at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, and one of the things I want to cover is Web 2.0 technologies’ positive role in countering deceptive campaign practices. I’m planning on using some examples from the Obama activism work I’ve been doing on Facebook, as well as…

Clay Shirky to deliver closing plenary at CFP08!

May 7, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing

From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy blog: We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote at CFP Technology Policy ’08. Since the 1990s, Shirky has written, taught, and consulted on the social, cultural, and economic effects of Internet technologies and social media. His most recent book, Here Comes Everybody:…

“9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”

Apr 26, 2008

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jon

in Professional

On the CFP08 blog, Laura DeNardis of the Yale Internet and Society Project writes: To help shape public debate in this election year, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School recommends the following policy principles – The 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration The principles include Privacy, Access, Network Neutrality, Transparency,…

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