Michael Klurfeld is a Chicago-based musician and technologist specializing in legal happenings and public policy. You can find him on Twitter here, or send him an email here.
Yesterday Senator Patrick Leahy (D, VM) introduced a bill which, if passed, would grant special privileges to ISPs and DNS providers for complying with government censorship. The “Combating Online Infringement…
The Third Circuit Court of Philadelphia has just issued a very civil rights-friendly decision about the procedures the government should follow to gain access to cell phone location data. This…
HP is suing Mark Hurd for violating the terms of his severance from HP. As you probably know, Mr. Hurd was the CEO of HP until the board forced him…
A new report from analyst firm Piper Jaffray says that in the long run, Android is going to be the OS running on around half of the smartphone market. iOS…
The FCC has issued a public notice (PDF) stating that it would launch further inquiries into broadband industry practices and consumer concerns. Given how long these sorts of inquiries take, this…
A school in California has received a $50,000 grant that it’s spending in a pretty odd way. It’s using the money to put tracking devices on preschoolers. The Contra Costa…
The Ninth Circuit appeals court has come out with a ruling which gives the government full permission to monitor you and attach GPS devices on your car without the need…
In what can be filed in the “well, there’s a first time for everything” category, a software company has sent a letter to popular filesharing site The Pirate Bay. The…
Yesterday BoingBoing posted about how the “Just Say Now” campaign to legalize marijuana had its ad pulled from Facebook. After 38 million impressions, Facebook’s staff pulled the advertisement (pictured in…
The RIAA and other music industry lobbyist organizations have weighed in on the Google-Verizon proposal in the form of a letter to Eric Schmidt. Their position? Any proposal must allow…
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Good friend Alex Wilhelm wrote about how Facebook’s location integration is the destination and termination of prognostication on the location sensation. (I apologize for this sentence). The argument is simple: Facebook…
Lobbyists representing big internet companies, including Microsoft and Yahoo, have resumed meetings to discuss on which side of the net neutrality line they’ll fall this time around. Perhaps the most…
The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania made headlines last year when it was revealed that the Macbooks it issued to its students had remote tracking and webcam software which…
Might Hulu be the next big internet company to go public? It might be if the New York Times’ sources are right. According to “people briefed on the matter,” Hulu’s…
Three engineering researchers from Rice University are set to unveil a next month with findings suggesting that handset makers have been making a mistake in the number of antennae they’ve…
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