The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | Electronic meeting technology provider Zoom is coming under harsh and much needed scrutiny regarding its privacy and security practices. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Monday, April 6th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Privacy, User Consent |
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| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Great Hack, an essential, must-see film breaking down what happened to our democracy in the 2016 presidential election. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 PM on Sunday, September 1st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Elections, Technology, Views & Reviews |
| Other Tags: | Brexit, Films, Privacy |
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| Excerpt: | Three years to the month after launching the first Raspberry Pi microcomputer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has unveiled a new Pi that uses a more modern processor and has twice as much memory onboard. The Raspberry Pi 2, as it’s being called, will sell for $35, just like its predecessors (the first generation Model A […] |
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| Published at: | 1:09 PM on Monday, February 2nd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Interoperability |
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| Excerpt: | With each passing week, it is becoming increasingly clear that former NSA employee Edward Snowden’s document dump constitutes the largest and most important leak in the history of the United States of America. While Snowden remains in Russia, newspapers in the West continue to sift through the documents he leaked, using those as the basis […] |
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| Published at: | 2:01 PM on Thursday, September 5th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, National Defense, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Intelligence, Privacy, User Consent |
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| Excerpt: | Ignoring a veto threat from President Barack Obama, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to pass Republican Congressman Mike Rogers’ Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, for the second year in a row. The vote on final passage, which happened this morning, was two hundred and eighty-eight to one hundred […] |
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| Published at: | 11:52 AM on Thursday, April 18th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | Legislation making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives that could further erode our civil liberties would be vetoed by President Obama were it to reach his desk in its current form, the White House said today. In a formal statement of administration policy on H.R. 624, more commonly known as the Cyber Intelligence Sharing […] |
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| Published at: | 1:14 PM on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | As we reported earlier today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scrapped plans to hold a vote on the “Protect IP Act”, also known as PIPA, next Tuesday. PIPA is one of the two MPAA and RIAA-backed bills that would permit major media conglomerates to indirectly censor the Internet, using the long arm of the […] |
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| Published at: | 4:36 PM on Friday, January 20th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Public Planning, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | Another victory! From Senator Harry Reid’s office: In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act. There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved. Counterfeiting and piracy cost the American economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs each […] |
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| Published at: | 9:15 AM on Friday, January 20th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | We’re back! Twenty-one hours ago, we took down this blog, The Advocate, along with Pacific NW Portal and our home page to protest two destructive bills that threaten Internet freedom, stability, and security: the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and the “Protect IP Act” (PIPA). In their place, we activated an action center explaining our […] |
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| Published at: | 9:56 PM on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | We are less than a few hours away from the beginning of the biggest virtual grassroots protest the Internet has ever seen. As you may have heard, the Web — or at least a sizable fraction of it — is going on strike to protest two destructive bills pending before Congress that would allow giant media […] |
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| Published at: | 5:28 PM on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | Readers who are regulars at Reddit or who closely follow technology news may have heard that the social news site is leading the way in fermenting what’s being called an Internet strike against two destructive, anti-Internet bills being pushed by Hollywood on Capitol Hill (the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” and the “Protect IP Act”). […] |
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| Published at: | 2:09 PM on Monday, January 16th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | Responding to a pair of petitions calling on President Obama to take a stand against two bills that threaten Internet freedom (the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” and “Protect IP”), three administration officials have published a position paper on the White House website which suggests that the administration does not find SOPA or PIPA acceptable […] |
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| Published at: | 11:50 AM on Saturday, January 14th, 2012 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, Technology |
| Tags: | Digital Freedom |
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| Excerpt: | Editor’s Note: The following is the text of a letter sent by NPI to the offices of U.S. Senators Patty Murray of Washington and Jeff Merkley of Oregon this morning. Dear Senators Murray and Merkley: On behalf of the team at the Northwest Progressive Institute, I am writing to express our strong opposition to two […] |
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| Published at: | 11:12 AM on Monday, December 5th, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Interoperability, Net Neutrality, User Consent |
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| Excerpt: | In a matter of days, the United States Senate may be voting on an extremely dangerous bill backed by the entertainment industry that would allow powerful media conglomerates and other big corporations to censor the Internet at will. This bill, S. 968, which we’ve previously written about, is officially known as the Preventing Real Online Threats […] |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Policy Topics, Technology |
| Other Tags: | Net Neutrality |
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