The RBC (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
The vulnerability of paperless voting systems to undetectable manipulation is one of those genuine problems that unfortunately attract so many tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists as to make them hard to pay serious attention to. So I'm grateful to WhyTuesday.org for pointing me to Edward Felten of Princeton, whose blog Freedom to Tinker has a wealth of calm and interesting analysis. In his...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
What should be the primary online publishing responsibility of the federal government? In Government Data and the Invisible Hand (SSRN), David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller and Edward Felten (all with the Princton University's Center for Information Technology Policy) argue...
Programmable Web (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
How should the American federal government make available its data? In a preprint of a forthcoming paper from Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Government Data and the Invisible Hand , David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Edward Felten, argue for the role of remixable data in government: Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be...
Jeff Weintraub (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
For a serious, earnest, non-fiction version, you can listen to a clear, informative, and alarming exposition in an interview with a certified expert, Princeton's Edward Felten. Felten is a Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the founding Director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy . The issues discussed include the susceptibility of computerized...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
As rumoured for many months, the Canadian Minister of Industry Jim Prentice today introduced Bill C-61, which has been described as a "Canadian DMCA law," referring to the controversial American law that has seen academics - like Princeton's Edward Felten - unable to present research papers . The Canadian law notable includes anti-circumvention clause that will make it illegal to break...
Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Professor Edward Felten and his colleagues have come up with beautifully simple strategy to improve the way that governments provide information to their citizens: In order for public data to benefit from the same innovation and dynamism that characterize private parties’ use of the Internet, the federal government must reimagine its role as an information provider. [...]
