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University Professor Chastised For Using Tor

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 8, 2007in Internet, Privacy

Here's a chilling first-person account of a university professor who was asked to stop using the anonymizing network software, Tor. University IT and campus security staffers came knocking on Prof. Paul Cesarini's door asking why he was using Tor, and…

Entrenchment of Non-Privacy Norms Online

Posted by Michael Zimmeron December 19, 2006in Internet, Privacy

Gaia Bernstein, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law (and guest blogger over at Law & Technology Theory) has a thoughtful post about how particular diffusion characteristics made the Internet vulnerable to the establishment of what she…

Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 13, 2006in Events, Internet, Values In Design

The FTC is holding a set of public hearings November 6-8 called Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, bringing together a diverse collection of scholars and practioners "to examine the key technological and business developments that will shape consumers' core…

CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 19, 2006in Events, Information Law & Policy, Privacy, Social Media, Values In Design1 Comment

[I am one of the organizers the following graduate student symposium to be held this fall at NYU] CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and Identification in a Networked World: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium When: September 29-30, 2006 Where: New York…

Designing a New Internet with a New Architecture

Posted by Michael Zimmeron July 1, 2005in Internet, Values In Design

Wired News reports that David Clark is beginning work (within academia and with the help of the NSF) on a new "clean slate" internet architecture:Clark, who served as chief protocol architect for the government's internet development initiative in the 1980s,…

More Concerns with Google Print Library

Posted by Michael Zimmeron June 6, 2005in Information Ethics, Search Engines

Siva Vaidhyanathan (a professor in my department, btw) has posted reader comments from his original request for feedback as to some of the concerns with of Google's plan to digitize library books. He was kind enough to include my repsonse,…

Tinkering Web Content – Greasemonkey

Posted by Michael Zimmeron May 17, 2005in Internet

In this post on Google Autolink, Dan Gillmor mentions his support of "user-modifiable Web content once it's reached the user's computer." The basic argument here is that once a website's content is called by your browser and resides on your…