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Mar 23

Senate votes to undo privacy rules that protect user data

By Tali Arbel and Richard Lardner, Associated Press

The Republican-led Senate moved Thursday to undo Obama-era regulations that would have forced internet service providers to ask customers' permission before they could use or sell much of their personal information.

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Jan 02

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Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn’t disappear

By PBS NewsHour, Frank Carlson

What’s online doesn’t necessarily last forever. Content on the Internet is revised and deleted all the time. Hyperlinks “rot,” and with them goes history, lost in space. With that in mind, Brewster Kahle set out to develop the Internet Archive,…

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Oct 27

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FCC chief outlines new plans to protect consumer data online

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Oct 24

Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet?

By Robert Graboyes

For better or worse, the digital age forces experts to make the case that a Google search doesn’t replace the librarian, and WebMD doesn’t replace the doctor.

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Oct 21

Internet struggles? It’s not you. A colossal attack has crippled America’s web address book

By Nsikan Akpan

Early Friday, Hackers struck the New Hampshire-based web company Dyn, which controls one of the cornerstones of U.S. internet infrastructure.

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Oct 19

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What’s the motive behind Julian Assange’s internet ban?

By PBS NewsHour

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in exile in London's Ecuadorian embassy for four years. Now Ecuador says it's shut off Assange's internet access, months after WikiLeaks began to release documents and emails stolen from the DNC and…

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Sep 29

13 percent of American adults do not use internet

By Courtney Norris

40 million Americans, still don’t go online, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis.

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Sep 21

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Why we believe what we read on the internet

By PBS NewsHour

In the digital age, we have access to all the information that we could ever want. But that means there’s also a lot of misinformation out there. How do we know what’s true and what isn’t? That’s what Daniel Levitin…

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Sep 07

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Why it’s so hard to fight extremist propaganda online

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How do you deter people from being seduced by messages of extremism on social media? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien looks at some of the strategies, including videos that provide a counter-narrative to the Islamic State and a computer program that…

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Aug 25

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Why the ‘alt-right’ is coming out of online chat rooms to support Trump

By PBS NewsHour

Donald Trump is appealing to voters who reject mainstream conservative ideals. These members of the so-called "alt-right" have typically taken their frustrations to the internet, rather than to the polls. John Yang interviews the Washington Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti and…

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