Author Archives: Carinne Johnson

Here’s the link to the patents episode of NPR’s This American Life, mentioned in today’s lecture: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack. A really interesting exploration of the dysfunctional U.S. patent system.

Written by Carinne Johnson and Andrea Angquist with reference to this article: Back in January, Twitter resisted a court order to turn over personal data about users connected to WikiLeaks (including founder Julian Assange and accused leaker Pfc. Bradley Manning) … Continue reading →