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Welcome To The Machine: Privacy And Workplace Implications Of Predictive Analytics, Robert Sprague
Welcome To The Machine: Privacy And Workplace Implications Of Predictive Analytics, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons
Internet Pricing: The Next Policy Frontier, Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons
In the past few years, broadband providers have begun shifting toward tiered service plans (sometimes known as usage-based pricing) that offer customers a fixed amount of data each month for a fee. On average, less than 2 percent of users exceed the most commonly-used tier of 300 GB; nearly 80 percent of consumers never exceed even 50 GB per month. Nevertheless, some critics such as Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation are concerned that this trend may bring higher prices and reduced service. Most recently, NAF analyst Benjamin Lennett asked whether tiered service plans are a plot by cable …
Privacy Concern In Google Voice Call Recording, Michael Katz, James Tuthill
Privacy Concern In Google Voice Call Recording, Michael Katz, James Tuthill
Michael Katz
The Federal Communications Commission, taking note of AT&T's complaint, has written to Google with questions about its call blocking. But the implications for our privacy of software-managed call services like Google Voice are a much greater threat to consumers, and that's where the FCC should direct its energy - immediately.
Western Frontier Or Feudal Society? Metaphors And Perceptions Of Cyberspace, Alfred C. Yen
Western Frontier Or Feudal Society? Metaphors And Perceptions Of Cyberspace, Alfred C. Yen
Alfred C. Yen
The Article examines how metaphors influence perceptions of cyberspace. Among other things, the Article studies the comparison of cyberspace to the American western frontier and the metaphor's construction cyberspace as a "place" whose natural characteristics guarantee freedom and opportunity. This supports an often-made claim that cyberspace is different from real space, and that government should generally refrain from regulating the Internet.
The Article surveys the basis of the western frontier metaphor in academic history and popular culture and concludes that the metaphor misleads people to overestimate cyberspace's "natural" ability to guarantee freedom and opportunity. The Article accomplishes this in part …