The Women Who Won Net Neutrality
Read more » about The Women Who Won Net NeutralityAuthor(s): Marvin AmmoriPublication Date: September 22, 2015Publication Type: Other Writing
View ArticleThese two apps immune to government spying, experts say
Date published: September 22, 2015"FaceTime and "possibly" WhatsApp are the only applications that prevent governments from accessing the contents of communication, a cybersecurity expert said on...
View ArticleHas White House finally got the message about strong encryption? Welcome...
Read more » about Has White House finally got the message about strong encryption? Welcome shift seen in speeches and policy memoAuthor(s): Geoffrey KingPublication Date: September 22, 2015Publication...
View ArticlePETA Files Lawsuit In SF Court To Give Monkey Ownership Of His Own Selfie Photos
Date published: September 22, 2015"Legal expert Andrew Bridges told CBS MoneyWatch said Slater isn’t the copyright owner because he didn’t have artistic control. “Copyright requires original creative...
View ArticleVolkswagen isn’t the first company to use software to break the law and it...
Date published: September 23, 2015"“Here’s an extreme example: What if Amazon’s robotic warehouses could reorganize themselves to meet fire code requirements with very little advance notice of an...
View ArticleWhy are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard...
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: September 23, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingLauren Rivera is an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg...
View ArticleFirst Amendment & Cyberlaw Scholars File Brief to Defend Open Internet Rules
On Monday, September 21st, fifteen of the nation's leading First Amendment and cyberlaw scholars -- including Jack Balkin (Yale), Yochai Benkler (Harvard), Theodore L. Glasser (Stanford), Larry Lessig...
View ArticleData and protecting the right to privacy
Cross-posted from the Knight Foundation. Video: Knight News Challenge: Data.Read more » about Data and protecting the right to privacyRelated Topics: Privacysurveillance
View ArticleSymposium: Living in Public: (Re)Negotiating Privacy + Security + Surveillance
Co-hosted and presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation and the San Jose Museum of Art. Read more » about Symposium: Living in Public: (Re)Negotiating Privacy + Security + SurveillanceOctober 3,...
View ArticleUsers are the real winners of the Google books case
Date published: October 19, 2015"“This is a big shift in thinking,” said Annemarie Bridy, a scholar of technology law and intellectual property at the University of Idaho College of Law. “It’s a...
View ArticleWhat is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that...
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 19, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingShowtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations...
View ArticleCampaign to Stop Killer Robots warns UN of threat 'a few years away'
Date published: October 20, 2015"Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York, noted that without a human in control, machines fail to take in the unpredictable variables and context of war:...
View ArticleUpdate on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: October 20, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingLast week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that...
View ArticleWhy Making People Register Their Drones May Just Create More Problems
Date published: October 20, 2015"There are two possible lines for making the determination, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, suggested to The Huffington Post: weight and...
View ArticleSurvey Shows Amount of Trust in Autonomous Vehicles
Date published: October 20, 2015""The key question here is whether the relevant technologies have reached a demonstrated level of socially acceptable risk," said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant...
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Valarie Kaur at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Valarie Kaur, founder of Groundswell, gave this moving address on Revolutionary Love at the world's largest interfaith gathering – the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions. Don't miss the message...
View ArticleCollege textbooks are a racket
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 21, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingThe Orange County Register reports that Alain Bourget, a math professor at Cal State Fullerton, is in danger of...
View ArticleFaced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
Date published: October 21, 2015"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encrypted iOS 8...
View ArticleThe good, bad, and ugly of binary thinking . . .
Sometimes the best choice when you come to a fork in the road is to retreat, or even merge the two forks by taking one then going off road to the other! And yet binary thinking will force us to choose...
View ArticleHere’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: December 16, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingTwo months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor...
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