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Civil Liberties

Notes from the Online World

Jesse Walker | 4.16.2010 10:49 AM

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- A study confirms what you probably already knew: Many online security measures are a waste of time.

- The folks who make Facebook apps need to learn the difference between ugly viral and pretty viral.

- The courts are still figuring out whether the First Amendment protects student activities in MySpace.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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