Center for Information Technology Policy

Center for Information Technology Policy

News

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 — Forthcoming paper in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology: Government Data and the Invisible Hand
Thursday, March 20, 2008 — NJ Voting Machine Documents: An index of public documents related to discrepancies in the February 5, 2008, primary election.
Thursday, February 21 2008 — New Research Result: Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption
Spring 2008 — CITP welcomes 10 new faculty associates.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - Ronald Lee, Details TBA
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - Martin Wattenberg, Details TBA
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - James Grimmelmann, Details TBA
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - Luis von Ahn, Human Computation

Recent Events

05.14.08 and 05.15.08 — Workshop: The Future of News (complete video available)
05.01.08 — Policy Lunch: Guest Speaker: Marc E. Fiuczynski - Information Technology in Africa: A Journey from Grassroots Research to Policy Reform
04.30.08 — Lecture: James E. Katz - How Are Mobile Phones Changing Families?

Center Links
Around the Web
- » According to a survey, one-third of IT staff people abuse their access to snoop on people.
- » A U.S. nuclear plant was offline for two days due to a problem triggered by software updates.
- » Deutsche Telekom admitted to “severe and far-reaching” tracking of phone calls in pursuit of leaks of corporate information.
- » The UK government has proposed a giant database of all phone calls and Internet accesses.
- » A Senate report criticizes the Administration’s new $17B cybersecurity initiative.
- » The judge in a high-profile copyright case reconsidered his prior ruling that merely making a song available constitutes copyright infringement.
- » Confusing ballot designs still plague elections.
- » Cyberattackers hacked an epilepsy group’s site to flash in a seizure-inducing way.
- » Comcast is considering establishing a bandwidth cap and overage fees on residential Internet customers.
- » The key economic force of our age isn’t globalization, but technological change, says David Brooks.