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White House Names Ed Felten As Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer
New submitter bird writes: Ed Felton, Director of Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and well-known and outspoken consumer advocate, has been appointed deputy US chief technology officer. His is a voice of reason that needs to be heard when tech policy is made. The press release says: "We are excited to announce that Dr. Ed Felten is joining the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Ed joins a growing number of techies at the White House working to further President Obama’s vision to ensure policy decisions are informed by our best understanding of state-of-the-art technology and innovation, to quickly and efficiently deliver great services for the American people, and to broaden and deepen the American people’s engagement with their government."
White House Press Goons:
"Ed joins a growing number of techies at the White House working to further President Obama’s vision to ensure policy decisions are informed by our best understanding of state-of-the-art technology and innovation, to quickly and efficiently deliver great services for the American people, and to broaden and deepen the American people’s engagement with their government."
Dr. Evil:
"Riiiiiiiiight."
I'm more amazed that Ed signed up.
But seriously between this, and the moves that the FCC will actually implement Title 2 protections to uphold Net Neutrality, my hopes for humanity (and the US Govt in general) have gone up a bit.
Fingers crossed...
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he's in and out with Obama.
"Mr. Felton will be in charge of ensuring the security of the web servers and Java application server codebases providing the consumer interface to the Affordable Care Act".
What, that wasn't your understanding, Ed?
Seems to be well-respected - hopefully this was an anomaly. EFF Honors Paid Eolas Patent Expert Witness: Doesn't seem like Felten's ongoing efforts as a paid expert for Eolas that helped return a $521M judgment against Microsoft for infringing on a web
plug-in patent jibe too well with the EFF's raison d'etre, which includes Patent Busting. In a letter to the USPTO, previous Pioneer Award recipient Tim Berners-Lee termed the Eolas patent 'a substantial setback for global interoperability and the success of the open Web.'
Job Requirements:
1) setting up private email servers
2) deleting emails
3) destroying backup tapes
Can we get one of those for our secret trade deals? Or is that off the table?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Just kidding, nobody cares.
I'm more amazed that Ed signed up.
But seriously between this, and the moves that the FCC will actually implement Title 2 protections to uphold Net Neutrality, my hopes for humanity (and the US Govt in general) have gone up a bit.
Fingers crossed...
It's basically the time post-second-election when the Pres starts to worry less about election of his party in the future and more about doing the right thing. So we're had more DoJ civil rights investigations, more support for net neutrality, etc...
He's another "techie"? Why didn't they use the more common idiom "dweeb"? Clearly Felton will be a powerful influence at the WH fraternity.
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
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The Obama administration's US Trade Representative is negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, yet another treaty to export copyright provisions friendly to the RIAA and MPAA to other countries. So it hires Ed Felten, the guy who cracked the RIAA's Secure Digital Music Initiative watermark scheme, as its deputy CTO. The left hand knows not what the right hand does.
I can imagine Ed Felton getting frustrated with just how little power the position actually has.
He would get even more frustrated if he knew that neither Slashdot editors or readers can decide on how to spell his name.
lucm, indeed.
Does nothing.
Earns nothing.
Says nothing.
Is nothing.
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"Ed joins a growing number of techies at the White House working to further President Obama’s vision to ensure policy decisions are informed by our best understanding of state-of-the-art technology and innovation..."
THIS is what us common folk (volk?) call "propaganda" (werbung?) ... ring any bells????
The statement was clearly written by a sycophant who would not know "unbiased" if it kicked him in the butt: It is every bit as possible that this is further evidence that corrupt evil technocrat crony-capitalists are further infecting the Obama administration as pay-back for all their massive piles of campaign cash in a move to further re-direct federal policies to make them even richer and more-powerful. Google, for example, nearly ran Obama's re-election while just happening to enjoy policies they wanted. Given that the author cannot read the minds of anybody involved and had no power to subpoena documents from these businesses and the federal government, he had a duty to neither assert the garbage he asserted nor presume the opposite which I have posited.