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Jane Susskind

Jane recently graduated with honors from the University of California San Diego, earning a degree in Political Science with a minor in the Study of Religion. Throughout her college career, she involved herself in politics through her government relations internship at the Sacramento Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and as an intern at the San Diego Office of Arnold Schwarzenegger. She is now the community manager at IVN. Here, she focuses on the growing importance of online communications in the political sphere while covering recent trends in social media. Her role is to facilitate conversations, allow for open dialogue, and update you on what's going on with IVN, the political world, and social media.

Articles By Jane Susskind

California_Online_Voting_Bill
By | 05/17/2013 | California, Electoral Reform, Headline, In-Depth | 35 Comments

Independent voters now account for approximately 40 percent of all voters in the United States. Following the national trend, California voters are increasingly leaving the two major parties, with almost 3.7 million voters now registered under “No Party Preference” in the state.

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Zuckerberg's PAC
By | 05/15/2013 | Activism, Immigration, Movements, Organizations | 2 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg’s 501(c)(4) organization, FWD.us, took another political blow last week when two key donors publicly left the super PAC. Focused on the expansion of the H1-B visas, FWD.us recently launched a series of advertisements featuring lawmakers pushing for immigration reform.

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Domestic_drone_policy
By | 05/10/2013 | IVN, Privacy | 4 Comments

Emerging from the dialogue are rational perspectives, informed advocates, and trained experts engaging in meaningful discussions on the domestic and commercial use of drones, some of which we invited to join us for our Tweet Chat on drone policy.

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Silicon Valley Lobbying
By | 05/08/2013 | California, Headline, Privacy, Social Media, Technology | 5 Comments

The fight for online privacy rights in California took a major blow this month as AB 1291, or the “Right to Know Act of 2013,” became a two-year bill, essentially halting all action until January 2014. Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal’s Right to Know Act would have made California the first state…

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TweetChat_Drones
By | 05/06/2013 | IVN, Social Media

In light of the recent attention on domestic drone, proposed legislation, and outpour of privacy concerns, IVN is hosting a tweet chat on Thursday, May 9, at 5pm PT on “Drone Policy & Privacy.”

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Facebook Graph Search Privacy
By | 05/03/2013 | Privacy

In January, Facebook released Graph search, a function designed to allow users to tap into the vast amount of user information to search for specific results among friends based on specific criteria.

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Twitter's two-step authentication
By | 05/01/2013 | Social Media | 4 Comments

It’s been a hectic few weeks for Twitter, with the acceleration of false allegations from the Boston bombing and repeated high profile hacking incidences drawing national attention.

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