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By Bryant Walker Smith on January 12, 2015 at 3:42 pm
By Richard Forno on January 9, 2015 at 11:01 am
Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) at the start of the 114th Congress. Although it's impractical to speculate on the contents of the latest proposal without seeing its legislative language, if CISPA '15 simply is a mirror-image resubmission of last year's version (as I suspect it is) my previous comments about its shortcomings and controversies still remain relevant: Read more about CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)
By Jeffrey Vagle on January 8, 2015 at 3:04 pm
With the horrifying attacks in Paris yesterday, we were witness, once again, to the remorseless brutality that can arise from extremist thinking that refuses to tolerate the existence of any worldview but its own. Read more about Charlie Hebdo and the Problem of Structural Surveillance
By Jennifer Granick on January 6, 2015 at 4:11 pm
By Center for Internet and Society on January 6, 2015 at 11:45 am
We are happy to announce the new 2014-2016 CIS Affiliates. Read more about CIS Affiliates 2014-2016 Announced
By Richard Forno on January 2, 2015 at 9:46 am
The Sony incident reminds us again about the fragile yet constantly shifting state of cybersecurity and Internet policy. Clearly the international political ramifications of this incident, who actually did it, and Sony's potential culpability remain unknown. Read more about The Sony Hack: A Warning for Internet Policy
By Chuck Cosson on December 29, 2014 at 5:25 pm
In the previous blog, I noted that the logical next step in understanding “privacy as fairness” was to examine if it is possible to identify principles that would effectively guide regulation based on "privacy as fairness." In this blog post, I observe that debate about regulations based on "privacy as fairness" should be oriented by three considerations: 1) regulations should be linked back to legitimate concerns about human emotional and physical well-being, not just abstract concepts such as "autonomy"; 2) regulations should enjoy a broad consensus as to both the harm to be addressed and the effectiveness of the proposed rule, and 3) “privacy as fairness” should not be confused with the protection of privacy as “solitude.” In this light, I note favorably regulations that are demonstrably necessary to ensure access to economic opportunity, while suggesting caution when considering official legal intervention aimed at balancing power among economic actors. Read more about “Tool Without A Handle”: Privacy and Regulation – An Expanded Rationale
By Elizabeth Townsend Gard on December 20, 2014 at 7:55 am
I've been a CIS non-resident fellow (or now faculty afflilaite) now for a decade, beginning in 2004. I love being associated with CIS, and many of my closest friends have come from my connections with CIS. Whereever we've moved--Tuscon, London, Seattle, or New Orleans, CIS has always been a constant. When I was on the job market in 2006, I felt part of a crowd that year that included David Olsen and David Levine, as well as others connected to Stanford. CIS is an anchor. Read more about New Year's Resolution: Be better at blogging
By Kate Westmoreland on December 19, 2014 at 9:25 am
When I first started working on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), they were seen as the less glamorous, hard-working cousin of extradition treaties. An international fugitive being flown back under armed guard to face justice is a satisfying conclusion to a long-running extradition case. By contrast, when the mail room delivers a series of boxes stuffed with bank records or electronic files in response to an MLAT request, it’s hardly a Law and Order scene in the making. With the frenzy of interest in the Microsoft Ireland cas Read more about The MLAT roadmap - visualizing how the process actually works
By Giancarlo Frosio on December 16, 2014 at 5:42 pm
