That world is gone. I JUST arrived in Shanghai, but I’m thinking about Estonia and wondering about something Presidents Clinton and Obama have been saying. Wired magazine reported last week that public schools in Estonia [...]

Governments pose the biggest threat to global innovation, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton has warned. Speaking at LeWeb London, Alec Ross said the “hierarchy of control” is being taken from those in power and [...]

The oppression industry is bad enough now …   The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, [...]

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin Sergey Brin says he and Google co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create their search giant if the internet was dominated by [...]

What is the most egregious example of corporate censhorship? As promised, here is our discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, the author of Consent of the Networked, a fascinating book about the fine balance online today between [...]

Growing the Internet, like a seed Tell us about KeyWiFi? What we’ve done is we have created a solution that enables the providers of Internet and the ISPs to benefit from their capacity to share. [...]

A government that claims to protect its citizens by spying on them is a government that needs to be watched, monitored and held under strict surveillance by its own citizens. Ten years after 9/11, the [...]

To what extent will it be legal Last week President Obama signed a sweeping aviation bill that, among other things, will open the skies to “unmanned aircraft systems,” more commonly known as drones. Much of [...]

New ideas about how to distribute content while being user-friendly and setting low fees are the way forward.   San Francisco, CA – In an op-ed published by Al Jazeera on February 18, Princeton ethicist [...]

The move immediately prompted outcry   It started five years ago after a young engineer in San Francisco sketched out a quirky little Web tool for telling your friends what you were up to. It [...]

Shouldn’t the first people to surrender their privacy be those in authority?   Your phone might be spying on you. The many cameras you pass every day can recognize your face. Facebook, despite its grudging [...]

Well, last week, smarts won — at least one round.   BACK in high school they always told us that brains prevail — that cool gets you only so far. Well, last week, smarts won [...]