WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Law is one place where the physical world and the digital world exist in a very rickety tension these days. If it was ever true that “on the Internet, no one knows if you are a dog,” it isn’t true any more. For better or worse, government can use laws written long before the Internet existed to find out pretty near anything about anybody in cyberspace, as these recent court cases illustrate,
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
The FCC is asking for comments on whether and/or under what circumstances government agencies should be able to shut down cellphone service to protect public safety. That’s a big question. Here’s some context. If you’d like to make a comment, you can do so at http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs by May 30, 2012. You can read the comments already made there by others as well.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Today, let’s catch up on some recent developments in labs and elsewhere that will be affecting our lives sooner or later ranging from storing information in bacteria to letting government agents have access to our reading habits for no particular reason.