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...outside organizations, such as the government, businesses, or even health insurance providers. He proposed a hypothetical case where a health insurance company might raise a premium for a client who searched online for “cancer.” In the paper, Mayer-Schoenberger writes that a limit should be set on how long information remains personally identifiable. While Google announced in March that it would make server logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months, the rest of the internet has not taken such steps toward protecting a user’s privacy. The purpose of Mayer-Schoenberger?...
Maybe I’m bitter because my cell phone plan only gives me something like 50 free texts per month, and I always go over my limit (sorry Mom). Maybe I’m upset because my finger reflexes are a bit slow, and I can’t churn out 160 characters in 42 seconds like the text-messaging record holder (it’s a real competition, look...
...capital is a surprisingly effective and fast-acting way to reduce air pollution. The study, conducted by a professor and two post-doctoral fellows at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used satellite data to examine the effects of a three-day limit on vehicle traffic in Beijing during the November 2006 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. By removing about 800,000 of Beijing’s nearly three million vehicles from the road during the conference—and pushing people to make greater use of busses and subways—officials...
...remembers that a lack of community among the undergraduates in the department was, for her, one of the few disadvantages of her chosen field, adding that she did get to know the graduate students.Christian is now studying German literature at Princeton University.Although small numbers may limit student interactions, Foster says that students and faculty receive both academic and personal attention. “We become sort of a big family,” she says.BEGINNINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS The success of graduates from smaller concentrations attests to the benefits of both the flexibility and the individual attention that students receive...
...constructive debate. The ideals of free speech encompass the right of a speaker to speak and the audience to hear. Without undermining either right, a member of the community may register dissent by any number of effective means. Choosing a device that is designed to disrupt an event or limit debate is not consistent with these ideals...