Mar 26 Watch 3:56 Senate votes to undo internet privacy regulations By PBS News Hour The Senate voted on March 23 to overturn internet privacy rules created to prevent providers like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from sharing users' personal information or selling it without permission. While the House has yet to vote on the issue,… Continue watching
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. Continue reading
Jan 02 Watch 9:12 Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn’t disappear By PBS News Hour, 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,… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch 5:33 FCC chief outlines new plans to protect consumer data online By PBS News Hour Continue watching
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch 4:39 What’s the motive behind Julian Assange’s internet ban? By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching
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. Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch 6:27 Why we believe what we read on the internet By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 8:44 Why it’s so hard to fight extremist propaganda online By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching