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CalMatters; iStockAbout 450 companies are on the data broker registry in California, and a law passed last year will make it easier to delete the data they collect about people. -
Rahul Lal/CalMattersWednesday could be your last chance to apply for a federal high-speed internet subsidy. Unless Congress intervenes, the program that subsidizes internet access for poorer Californians will run out of money in April 鈥� and also pull the plug on a state program to expand broadband access.
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Assembly members and disgruntled Californians urged the California Public Utilities Commission to keep low-income subsidies as is. -
A first-in-in the nation bill that would protect kids鈥� privacy online passed out of the California Legislature. Here鈥檚 what it does, and what happens next. -
On Thursday, the Yurok Tribe received a $61 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to bring high speed internet to nearly 1,000 homes and 110 businesses on the far northern California coast. -
After last year's wildfires in Southern Oregon, around 1000 people in the city of Talent still don't have access to the internet in their homes and businesses. Now the city is looking to change that by partnering with a nonprofit called No One Left Offline (NOLO). -
Southern Oregon state Representative Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, is proposing legislation in the upcoming session to increase funding for broadband internet in鈥� -
The Internet was supposed to be a powerful force for good and democracy in the world. And it certainly opened up the world in new ways... until it didn't.鈥� -
It's probably safe to call Michael Patrick Lynch a critic of the Internet. But you might want to Google him to be sure. Lynch runs the "Humility and鈥� -
It was a web site where you could buy ANYTHING. eBay? Not hardly. "Silk Road" was the name of the purposely obscure website that moved goods and services鈥� -
Even those of us who consider ourselves tech-savvy can be left in the dust by today's children. The "digital natives" grew up with screens of all sizes in鈥� -
Can you even remember the last time you opened a physical dictionary or encyclopedia? You don't have to anymore, with the ability to type any term into鈥� -
It's not just the Internet that encourages anonymous commenting... even The Exchange only requires first names from people who call and email. So this鈥� -
Go ahead, click that link below. It's got to be safe, right? Nobody would deliberately cause harm to you on the Internet, after all. If only that were鈥�
