Now that Obama has shown his cards on a lot of nominations to techie federal agencies, as well as started fleshing out his own staff, now seems like a good time to take a snapshot of the folks advising the President on tech policy, and those regulating the tech industry. This will be a...
MySpace and Facebook Information Fair Game in Colo...
posted by Claude Aiken
Some subconsciously assume that Facebook is a sort of walled garden where you can control who has access to your personal information. At least in one case, a court has ruled that this is incorrect. Evan Brown at Internet Cases has found an interesting case, Ledbetter v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2009 WL 1067018 (D. Colo. April 21, 2009), a personal injury suit where the Wal-Mart sought information about Ledbetter from MySpace, Facebook, and Meetup in order to defend the case. The court granted their request, but did it get the law right? The order, unfortunately, is severely truncated. The court does not go into in-depth legal...
The FCC and the Nati...
posted by Claude Aiken
Already, the kickoff of this national broadband plan proceeding is receiving so much coverage. Where did this strange bird come from, and where is it going? Well, in the Recovery Act, the FCC was directed to come up with a national broadband plan that addresses a number of public policy...
National Broadband P...
posted by Claude Aiken
The FCC met this morning and formally adopted a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on its development of a national broadband plan. Chairman Copps wants the process to be “open and inclusive”, so if you think you have a good idea for where our nation should go with its broadband...
Data.gov to go onlin...
posted by Claude Aiken
Great news for open government advocates. Under the guidance of Vivek Kundra, the Obama administration’s CIO, the federal government will begin the process of making massive amounts of non-classified government data available on Data.gov. The project, which is slated to go live in...