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From the New York Times: Privacy is central to American law. And in 1986, Congress applied that principle to electronic communications by setting limits on law enforcement access to Internet and wireless technologies. It was a laudable law at the time, but cellphones were still oddities, the Internet was mostly
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Google Fiber for Communities Project Nomination of EFF-Austin We at EFF-Austin have submitted our Google Fiber for Communities nomination. Our letter will be included in the City of Austin's official nomination package. We think Austin, as a community and a broadband market, is the perfect place
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The SXSW Film Festival is screening a documentary about the open Internet and Net Neutrality called Barbershop Punk at the Austin Convention Center on March 15th and 18th. The title refers to Robb Topolski's 2007 investigation of Comcast's network management practices after having trouble sharing public
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The University of Texas' student newspaper, The Daily Texan, covered last night's panel on the 20th anniversary of the Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games. “I got a phone call one morning saying, ‘Steve, the office is full of Secret Service agents, and they’re not
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NOTE: Live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/effaustin! March 9, 2010. 7pm-9pm, Independence Brewing. Austin was a hotbed of pioneering Internet activity in the early 1990s, and one event that put us on the Internet map was the March 1, 1990 Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson
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Google just announced that they plan on rolling out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service in a number of trial locations. To give some perspective, a 1Gbps Internet access service would be over 65 times faster than Time Warner Cable's fastest Road Runner tier
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Ever wondered how these IntarTubes work to to build up the IntarWebzNet thingy? Next time you run into someone who thinks of the Internet like that, you might want to point them to this video produced by TheEuroIX. It's simple, clear, only has a slight bias to support
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Austin Non Profit Camp is a free, facilitated and participant driven conference that will be the place in Austin for non profits to learn and troubleshoot their technology problems in a supportive, collaborative setting. http://npocamp.eventbrite.com/ Austin Non Profit Camp is being spearheaded by David J. Neff, Jon
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Download carlsettlesowd.mp3 The fine folks at FG Squared sponsored OneWebDay2009 Austin, which was co-produced by EFF-Austin and Plutopia Productions. What follows are the audio recordings of the talks and panel. The Internet Then and Now The Internet Then and Now AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer1", {soundFile: "
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EFF-Austin is coordinating One Web Day Austin, September 22 at Austin Centre, 5pm-9pm. Download the event flyer (pdf). | Learn more about One Web Day.
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IIW2009a took place May 18-20th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Please check the top of the notes page for links to other blog coverage. The previous workshop IIW2008b was memorable for the many sweet apps (several from Google) that made use of OAuth and the marathon
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As Time Warner’s metered broadband plans are currently shelved, awaiting a more palatable consumer climate, we have time to examine why broadband providers suddenly feel compelled to eliminate the flat-rate, all-you-can-eat pricing model. Metered Internet service is hardly a new idea; early services like AOL