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Big Data

Big data may increase power disparity

January 23, 2017May 22, 2017By Observatory Admin

Professor Dan Schiller was invited to deliver several lectures at the Global Fellowship Progam at Peking University October/November, 2016. Below is his interview on “big data”

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China Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

What is CFIUS?

February 26, 2016February 26, 2016By Observatory Admin

Comes now, the news that Tsinghua, a Chinese tech company, has abandoned its $3.8 billion plan to become the largest shareholder in the U.S. data

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Telecom Act 1996

Cause for celebration on the 20th anniversary of the Telecom Act?

February 11, 2016February 18, 2018By Observatory Admin

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996.  Celebrations have been sighted in and around Washington, D.C.[1] Helpful clarification of

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Safe Harbor

U.S. Dominance Over International Communications: A Status Report

February 3, 2016February 26, 2016By Observatory Admin

Two stories jump out this week. One concerns the Internet’s coordinating mechanism, the other the pact that enables European data to be sent to the

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Free Markets In Action

January 22, 2016By Observatory Admin

Even when it isn’t election season in the United States, there’s a lot of noise made about “the free market” and “entrepreneurialism.”  Government, goes the

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Automation Class Internet Industry Labor Uber Working Class

Low-Wage Workers & the Internet Industry

January 4, 2016February 9, 2016By Observatory Admin

What are the overall impacts of tech companies on occupational structures, employment patterns, and labor practices? This question is large, complicated, and vital.[1] To engage

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