The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. Its mission is to educate policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government, free markets, and individual sovereignty.
We had a great discussion yesterday about the technical underpinnings of the ongoing privacy policy debate in light of the discussion draft of privacy legislation recently released by Chairman Rick Boucher (see PFF's initial comments here and here). I moderated...
Adam Thierer & I offered our initial thoughts upon first reading the discussion draft of the privacy bill introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) & Cliff Stearns (R-FL). In PFF's latest TechCast, I sat down to discuss the bill and...
I'm testifying this morning before the Senate Commerce Committee's Consumer Protection Subcommittee on Examining Children's Privacy: New Technologies and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act at 10 am in 253 Russell. I offered an overview of my testimony in a...
In this latest PFF TechCast, Berin Szoka and I discuss the two latest installments in our ongoing "Wrong Way to Reinvent Media" series. These two recent installments dealt with "media vouchers" and expanded postal subsidies as methods of assisting struggling...
In this TechCast, Adam Thierer discusses the second essay in a series, entitled, "The Wrong Way to Reinvent Media, Part 2: Spectrum Taxes to Subsidize Public Media." MP3 file: PFF TechCast #2 - Saving the Media Through Broadcast Spectrum Taxes...
PFF recently started a new "TechCast" podcast series and the topic for one of our first episodes was about the new series of essays that we have coming out about "The Wrong Way to Reinvent Media." In this series, we're...
On July 27th, The Progress & Freedom Foundation hosted a Capitol Hill panel discussion entitled "Online Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech: An Overview of Challenges in Congress & the States." The event featured remarks from: Parry Aftab, Executive Director,...