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Wonks, geeks, Venus, Mars: Ed Felten’s FTC debrief with Ars Technica

By Teresa Riordan On September 19, 2012 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science

For­mer Prince­ton com­puter sci­ence grad stu­dent Tim­o­thy Lee inter­viewed Ed Fel­ten of the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy about his time as the Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion’s first Chief Tech­nol­o­gist. The piece has the provoca­tive title of “Geeks are from Mars Wonks are from Venus.” Read the full ars tech­nica piece

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On NPR: Ed Felten discusses digital user-advertiser arms race

By Teresa Riordan On June 27, 2012 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science

An inter­view with Ed Fel­ten, direc­tor of the Princeton’s Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy, on a “Do Not Track” sys­tem for web browsers aired recently on NPR.

Fel­ten, who is cur­rently on leave as chief tech­nol­o­gist for the Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion and a mem­ber of the Do […]

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Wired profiles Arvind Narayanan

By Teresa Riordan On June 19, 2012 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science, Uncategorized

 

Kim Zetter has writ­ten a fas­ci­nat­ing, in-depth pro­file of com­puter sci­en­tist and data pri­vacy expert Arvind Narayanan. As the arti­cle notes, Narayanan is “head­ing to Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity next year to join the well-regarded Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy, led by com­puter sci­en­tist Ed Fel­ten.”

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FTC chief technologist Ed Felten encourages techies to influence policy

By Teresa Riordan On June 14, 2012 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science, electrical engineering

Deliv­er­ing a USENIX con­fer­ence keynote address in Boston this week, FTC chief tech­nol­o­gist Ed Fel­ten urged fel­low com­puter sci­en­tists to do as he has done and serve in government.

Fel­ten said that “tech­nol­o­gists should seek out gov­ern­ment posts because it gives them the oppor­tu­nity to affect pub­lic pol­icy, which often affects their jobs,” […]

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Anonymous bubble forms potentially not so anonymous

By Teresa Riordan On June 10, 2011 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science

Researchers from the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy have released a study on the stan­dard­ized forms com­monly used in test­ing and vot­ing that require respon­dents to select answers by pen­cil­ing in a bubble.

CITP’s sur­pris­ing find­ing? These forms are not so anony­mous as one might think. The researchers have created […]

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All Things Digital lauds Felten appointment

By Teresa Riordan On November 4, 2010 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science

All Things Dig­i­tal colum­nist John Paczkowski is unequiv­o­cal in his enthu­si­asm for today’s announce­ment that Princeton’s Ed Fel­ten has been appointed chief tech­nol­o­gist for the Fed­eral Trade Commission.

Says Paczkowski:

“Looks like the Fed­eral Trade Com­mis­sion got its first choice of Chief Tech­nol­o­gist, because it’s hard to think of any­one bet­ter to serve […]

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Halderman details arrest by Indian officials of election security researcher

By Teresa Riordan On August 24, 2010 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science, Princeton Engineering alumni

J. Alex Hal­der­man on the blog Free­dom to Tin­ker reports the arrest of Hari Prasad, an Indian col­league who coau­thored a research paper detail­ing seri­ous secu­rity flaws in India’s elec­tronic vot­ing machines.

The research paper has pro­duced a hot debate in India, accord­ing to Hal­der­man: “Many commentators […]

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Boingboing highlights “architecture is politics” panel featuring Ed Felten

By Teresa Riordan On March 30, 2010 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science

The Elec­tronic Free­dom Foun­da­tion (EFF) recently held a panel dis­cus­sion at Carnegie-Mellon explor­ing how the tech­ni­cal design of com­puter sys­tems impacts free speech, pri­vacy, prop­erty own­er­ship, and cre­ative thought.

Princeton’s  Ed Fel­ten, direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy, joined Dave Far­ber, Lor­rie Cra­nor, John Buck­man, and Cindy Cohn — […]

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Vote now for Art of Science “people’s choice” award

By Teresa Riordan On June 23, 2009 · In Center for Information Technology Policy, computer science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Almost 15,000 votes have already been cast in the online Art of Sci­ence vot­ing gallery. The top vote-getter as of noon on July 1 will receive a spe­cial “people’s choice” award. It’s fas­ci­nat­ing to watch the ever-changing lineup of the top 10 vote get­ters. When EQN last checked, none of […]

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Boingboing: Felten is “fascinating listening”

By Teresa Riordan On April 27, 2009 · In Center for Information Technology Policy

Cory Doc­torow writ­ing for boing­bo­ing calls an Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty Col­lo­quium pod­cast fea­tur­ing Ed Fel­ten “fas­ci­nat­ing lis­ten­ing that makes a good stab at unpick­ing the tech and the law of DRM.” DRM is short­hand for “dig­i­tal rights man­age­ment,” a term that broadly speak­ing refers to the deploy­ment of tech­nolo­gies intended to control […]

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