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What Startups Should Know About TPP
In the name of “individual rights and free expression,” WikiLeaks has released the draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Negotiations over this trade agreement began in secret between 12 Pacific Rim countries in December 2012, and despite the secrecy, we know (from a previous leak) that discussions have covered intellectual property, competition and State-owned enterprises, environmental policy, services and investment, and government procurement, among other issues. But how will this impact startups?
Startups Speak: Democracy Requires a Right to Privacy
To date I have been operating on a rather simple premise. If democracy equals freedom and freedom equals privacy then - by the transitive property of mathematics - democracy and privacy must be intricately linked. Like all constitutional queries, the discussions we are having about privacy - and those yet to be had - are centered around a single question: what kind of country do we want to live in?
California Law Lets Minors Erase Online ‘Overshares’
This week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that aims to protect the online privacy of minors in California by fashioning a right to erase content posted on the internet. The new law is specifically designed to protect "the teenager who says something on the Internet that they regret five minutes later," but it also leads to questions about broader online privacy issues.
Recess is Over. What Now For Tech Policy?
As D.C. returns to work this week, we reset our focus on what remains of the first session of the 113th Congress, still hopeful for movement on immigration reform, patent litigation reform, and other issues that impact the tech community.
Midweek Policy Update
Startup Act 2.0 rolls out in the House, lawmakers worry about privacy for pre-teens, and the FCC releases research on potential alternatives to the spectrum management regime.
Midweek Policy Review
This week in Washington: the FTC holds a workshop on privacy, The FCC gets a new wireless chief, and legislators hold a hearing on internet governance.