Posted on February 4th, 2009 by William McGeveran
A coalition of investors anchored by the New York City pension funds has filed resolutions for consideration at the 2009 annual shareholder meetings of major internet service providers, seeking more information about their network management practices and impacts on customer’s privacy and free expression. In particular, the group wants to know more about deep packet [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Privacy
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Back in September 2006 I expressed skepticism about the posting of all congressional staff salaries by a web site called LegiStorm. At the time I said:
It might be different if this were the members of Congress themselves (whose salaries are set by statute) or perhaps their most senior aides. Can it really matter to [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Voting
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Rebecca Mackinnon, a journalism professor at the University of Hong Kong (who is also a former Berkman fellow, co-founder of Global Voices, and CNN bureau chief in Beijing and Tokyo) has a long thoughtful post about the effort to establish social responsibility standards for international internet companies that must grapple with issues of censorship and [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2007 by William McGeveran
The UK-based advocacy group Privacy International has released a preliminary draft of a provocative study which includes a ranking of major internet companies on their overall privacy practices.
The biggest bombshell in the study must be the ranking of Google as the worst company — alone in the lowest of six color-coded ranks of companies, in [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Activists and policy wonks who work with environmental issues take it for granted that private corporate activities and markets lie at the center of both the problems and the potential solutions (like this and this) to issues such as water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. Organizations like Ceres work with businesses to help [...]
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