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Google: Censorship Should Be Trade Barrier
News Speaking last week at a conference organised by US thinktank the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Eric Schmidt said that to defend freedom of speech, governments should use internet censorship as a non-tariff trade barrier.
[August 28, 2007, 13:34]
HP's Fiorina Backs Net Regulation
News It cannot be every man, woman and child out for themselves in the wild, wild west," she told a group of high-powered policy makers and industry leaders attending the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit.
[August 23, 2000, 14:57]
Ira Magaziner: U.S. At Odds With EU Net Privacy Directive
News While negotiations with EU governments are on hold until next month, Clinton administration officials believe they can be induced to consider a more market-driven approach to protecting consumers' online privacy, Ira Magaziner, the senior adviser...
[August 26, 1998, 6:44]
First World, Not World Wide, Web
News It would be the natural thing for the government bureaucracy to end all government bureaucracies, the United Nations, to suggest more regulation as a way of extending the Internet into the undeveloped world," said Jeff Eisenach, president of the...
[July 13, 1999, 9:52]
Google Joins Open Source-patent Network
News Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, said in a speech in May that companies such as Google and Yahoo have "ethical and community responsibilities" to contribute their code back to the...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
Open Source Stirs Up Trouble For Novell
News If they get away with scaring users into paying Novell, they will deny users the most basic freedom, freedom zero: the freedom to run the program. Pointing to the dangers he sees in the Microsoft/Novell partnership, Stallman said: "If nothing...
[March 21, 2007, 16:41]
Think Tank Urges Microsoft Breakup
News The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is suggesting a new way to slice and dice Microsoft. While it's hardly the first third party to weigh in on suggested remedies in the ongoing Department of Justice vs.
[January 28, 2000, 8:50]
AT&T Exec: Net Is Full Of Hate
News But when Leo Hindery, president and CEO of AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, instead devoted his keynote at the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Cyberspace and the American Dream conference to the threat posed by porn and hate Web sites, the...
[August 25, 1999, 9:30]
US Justice Department Ready To Prosecute File-swappers
News A lot of people think these activities are legal, and they think they ought to be legal," Malcolm told an audience at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit. The US Department of Justice is prepared to begin...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
Internet A 'moral-free Zone', Warns Media Chief
News Speaking on Tuesday at an annual conference organised by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Peter Chernin decried the "enormous amount" of worthless content online. The president of media giant News Corp.warns that the Internet has become a "moral...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
FTC Head Sceptical About Net Neutrality Laws
News I ask myself whether consumers will stand for an Internet that suddenly imposes restrictions on their ability to freely explore the Internet or does not provide for the choices they want," Majoras told a luncheon audience at the Progress and...
[August 22, 2006, 9:40]
Bush Snubs Tech VC For Commerce Post
News The high-tech sector of the economy already is experiencing a virtual breakdown," said Jeffrey Eisenbach, president of the Progress and Freedom Foundation. President-elect George W Bush on Wednesday will choose longtime Texas friend Donald Evans as...
[December 20, 2000, 15:44]
Tuesday
Blog Speaking at a conference in the US organised by the Progress & Freedom Foundation -- why do these things have such overtly Stalinist names? Tuesday 20/08/2002I'm sure Monday's diary entry is the sort of thing that Peter Chernin's dead against.
[August 23, 2002, 15:58]
Justice Dept Cools On Suing Swappers
News That idea is "something that people should take with a grain of salt", Pate said at a conference held by the Progress & Freedom Foundation. A top Justice Department official on Monday took a swipe at one of the recording industry's favourite ideas...
[August 24, 2004, 11:45]
Software-licensing Law Loses Supporters
News They say it grants software makers too much freedom in restricting the use of their products and in dictating settlement terms for conflicts. Because it's on the books in two states, courts across the country could be influenced by it, according to...
[August 8, 2003, 13:10]
Political Paradox: Technology Is Everywhere, Except In Voters' Hearts
News It's not that voters aren't concerned about issues such as online privacy, but they aren't as worrysome to voters as bottom-line concerns such as taxes, said Jody Westby, the director for information technology studies at the Progress & Freedom...
[October 20, 1998, 6:03]
P3P: Big Backers, Slow Pickup
News Sagi Leizerov, Ph.D.a privacy expert with Ernst & Young LLP, cites a May 2002 survey by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) that indicates that 35 percent of the most popular Web sites have implemented P3P to some extent.
[June 11, 2002, 10:02]
Study: Big Sites Improving Privacy
News The Progress & Freedom Foundation, which studies digital technologies and their implications for public policy, had accounting firm Ernst & Young begin surveying the Web pages of the top 100 e-commerce sites, plus a random sample of approximately...
[April 1, 2002, 7:31]
Sun Rises On Open DRM
News Sun's president, Jonathan Schwartz, is scheduled to announce the long-brewing project, called the Open Media Commons, at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit on Monday. After years of work, Sun has begun trying to rally corporate...
[August 22, 2005, 9:10]
The Guerilla Approach To Net Privacy
News Nearly as popular, Pew found in its survey presented Tuesday at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit, was giving a secondary email address to avoid the inevitable follow-up marketing pitches.
[August 23, 2000, 9:17]
