Peter DiamondThe FCC’s latest attempt to defend net neutrality has been challenged in court by telecom and cable companies. Should Internet service be treated similarly to landline telephone service? Read more →
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Today we reach out to the ACLU of Minnesota and the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information to ask about police body cameras. Are they invasive for the public? Are they holding police accountable? Read more →
In an Intelligence Squared debate, those in favor of the right to be forgotten argue that it protects individual’s privacy rights, while others say that the decision censors free speech and disrupts the free flow of information on the Internet. Read more →
British scientists announced Friday that they had applied for permission to edit the DNA in human embryos, a controversial step that has provoked intense debate around the world. Read more →
Molly BloomIf researchers from Princeton are right, Facebook will have gone the way of Friendster and MySpace by 2017. But if that’s true, what will take its place? Time reports: Disease models can be used to understand the mass adoption and subsequent flight from online social networks, researchers at Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Read more →
Michael Olson
“Many Americans would be surprised by how easily local law enforcement, IRS investigators, the FBI and private attorneys can reach into the vast pool of personal information about their lives with little more than a subpoena, which no judge needs to review,” write G.W. Schulz and Daniel Zwerdling. “And it’s not just for selling you Read more →
A disease known as citrus greening has devastated the orange crop in Florida. Thousands of trees with the disease have been cut down and pesticides have been sprayed to kill the bug that carries the disease. “But the contagion could not be contained,” writes New York Times reporter Amy Harmon. “Oranges are not the only Read more →
“Black bear researcher Lynn Rogers has filed suit against the DNR. He’s asking a judge in Ramsey County District Court to issue a temporary restraining order to keep the agency from forcing him to remove collars on about a dozen bears he’s researching,” writes MPR News reporter Stephanie Hemphill. The DNR has repeatedly told Rogers Read more →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK3e-UCJXi0 Minnesota’s wolf population has dropped by about 24 percent since 2008, according to new survey numbers released Tuesday by the state Department of Natural Resources, writes MPR News reporter Elizabeth Dunbar. The new numbers likely mean fewer wolves will be allowed to be killed during the next hunting season this fall and winter, said Read more →
With help from a WikiLeaks lawyer, the young American who admits he leaked information about National Security Agency surveillance programs has now asked more than 20 nations to give him asylum. But as NPR’s Jean Cochran said early Tuesday on the network’s newscast, Edward Snowden’s chances of getting asylum from any nation in Europe “do Read more →