Government 2.0
On Wednesday September 21st, EFF Austin [ @EFFaustin ] was notified about the Austin Police Department's (APD) Digital Analysis Response Team's [ DART, @APDDART ] "Operation Wardrive" [ #OpWardrive ] via the KVUE [ @KVUE ] news article that originally appeared at the following URI (it's relatively common for journalism
Government 2.0
Update (Sep 22 @ 1:07pm) - The Austin Police Department has decided to cancel Operation Wardrive and focus on the public education facet of this work. See Mark Boyden's comment, an email response from APD Chief Art Acevedo. Thanks go to <a href="http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.
Activism
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 for a
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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 available in Austin