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Student Expelled For Profane Tweet Thrust Into Free-Speech Debate

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: First Amendment, Twitter, Student Tweet, Austin Carroll Tweet, Indiana Student Tweet, Garrett High School, Free Speech, Student Expelled for Tweet, Student Expelled, Austin Carroll, Indiana Schools, Freedom of Speech, Indiana High School, Social Media, Video, Center for Democracy and Technology, Social Media in Schools, Student Twitter, Education News

INDIANAPOLIS -- Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when the Indiana teenager turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple t...

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Sen. Mark Udall Questions Federal Surveillance Accountability

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Center for Democracy and Technology, Ron Wyden, Illegal-Surveillance, National Security Agency, National Intelligence Office, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Illegal Wire Tapping, Fisa, Wire Tapping, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Like its predecessor, the Obama administration says it cannot count how many people in the U.S. have had their telephone calls and ...

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Smile! Aerial Images Being Used To Enforce Laws

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aerial Surveillance, Google Earth, Eye in the Sky, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Center for Democracy and Technology, Google, Law Enforcement, Crime, Technology News

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipali...

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Twittering the G20 Iranian Style

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Liberties, Iran, Center for Democracy and Technology, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, State Department, Federal Government of the United States, Free Speech, United State, U.S. Government, Twitter, New York, Pittsburgh, Technology News
Leslie Harris

In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.

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Debunking the Half-Baked "Cookie Conspiracy"

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Cdt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Office of Management and Budget, Websites, Obama Administration, Privacy, HTTP Cookie, Government, Center for Democracy and Technology, Technology, Politics News
Leslie Harris

The White House Office of Management and Budget is retooling the current federal policy that governs how federal agencies are allowed to place "cookies" on citizens' computers to track their visits to agency web sites.

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Stimulating the Information Technology Economy and Expanding Democracy

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Information Technology, Economy, Web 2.0, Internet, Gni, Center for Democracy and Technology, Yahoo, Global Network Initiative, President Obama, Computers, China, Hillary Clinton, Media News
Leslie Harris

The web should be a tool for ordinary people throughout the world to reach beyond boundaries and become the driving force for social, political, and economic progress.

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