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Transcript PFF Online Child Safety Privacy Hill Event (7-27-2009)

This is transcript of a program that took place on July 27, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The event was hosted by The Progress & Freedom Foundation (www.PFF.org). The audio for this event can be heard ...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 08/18/2009
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"Against Techno-Panics" by Adam Thierer, PFF (July 2009 - Inside ALEC)

An essay by Adam Thierer of the Progress & Freedom Foundation (www.PFF.org) arguing against "techno-panics," or public and political crusades against the use of new media or technologies by the you...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 07/15/2009
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Five Online Safety Task Forces Agree [PFF - Adam Thierer]

In this Progress & Freedom Foundation white paper, PFF senior fellow Adam Thierer surveys the findings of five major online safety task forces that have been convened between 2000 - 2009.
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  • Adam Thierer published this 07/07/2009
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COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech

Online privacy, child safety, free speech and anonymity are on a collision course. The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) already mandates certain online privacy protections for ...
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  • Berin Szoka published this 05/21/2009
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Google’s Ad Preference Manager: One Small Step for Google, One Giant Leap for Privacy

Google's new "Interest Based Advertising" (IBA) program represents the company's first foray into what is generally called "Online Behavioral Advertising" (OBA): In order to deliver more relevant ...
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  • Berin Szoka published this 03/11/2009
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Who Needs Parental Controls PFF

In this piece, I address the argument made by some media and Internet critics who say that government intervention (perhaps even censorship) may be necessary because parental control technologies a...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 02/27/2009
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FCC v Fox and Future of First Amendment (Thierer-PFF)

On November 4th, 2008, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the potentially historic free speech case of Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. This case, which ori...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 02/19/2009
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Targeted Online Advertising: What's the Harm & Where Are We Heading?

The Federal Trade Commission should avoid laying the groundwork for more onerous regulation of the online advertising marketplace, state Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer in "Targeted Online Advertising...
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  • Berin Szoka published this 02/18/2009
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ISTTF Thierer Closing Statement

Final statement of Adam Thierer, senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation, regarding the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF), which was run by the Berkman Center at Harvard Unive...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 01/13/2009
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Pacifica Decision at 30 (Thierer-Morris)

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  • Adam Thierer published this 07/02/2008
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Parental Controls and Online Content Protection-Version 4.0 (Adam Thierer - PFF)

This is version 4.0 of "Parental Controls & Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods." This booklet is published by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tan...
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  • Adam Thierer published this 05/05/2008
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