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"It seemed impossible a year ago because if you made a power map, you’d have seen a modest, courageous coalition of small web companies, political activists, and public interest groups on the one hand, and the biggest monopolists on the other. The biggest organizational players in support of Title II classification were groups that did not exist 15 years ago. Read more » about How the Little Guys Beat the Monopolists on Net Neutrality
""For the millennial generation, taking away an open Internet is like, for an older generation, taking away Social Security or Medicare—or for some people in the red states, taking away their guns," Ammori said. "If you try to do this, they will call Congress every day. They will think you are a corrupt stooge."" Read more » about How a Ragtag Band of Activists Won the Battle for Net Neutrality
""It's a breakthrough case," said University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, who has written extensively on revenge porn and the law. "It sends a powerful message to the sites that are up and running still that we're not going to treat this as something we ignore, but as a criminal matter."" Read more » about San Diego Man Found Guilty In Revenge Porn Trial
"“For many younger companies, the focus has been more on building the product out and less on guaranteeing a level of comprehensive privacy and security protection commensurate with the sensitive information associated with education,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer science graduate student at Stanford University. “It seems to be a recurring theme.”" Read more » about Uncovering Security Flaws in Digital Education Products for Schoolchildren
"The decision came under quick fire from Web activists and, soon after, by 150 Internet companies including giants like Google and Netflix, who sent a letter warning that it represented a “grave threat to the Internet.”
The letter made it clear that Web companies had a stake in the fight and “totally shifted the way people in D.C. thought about it,” said Marvin Ammori, a tech policy lawyer who helped to rally startups around the push. " Read more » about FCC head: Hero or puppet?
"Barbara van Schewick and Morgan Weiland detailed the bill’s holes in The Stanford Law Review, ultimately calling it “network neutrality in name only.” Read more » about Surprise, surprise: There's a partisan divide in the net neutrality debate
"Peter Asaro has spent the past few years lobbying the international community for a ban on killer robots as the founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. He believes that it’s time for “a clear international prohibition on their development and use.” According to him, this would let companies like Clearpath continue to cook up cool stuff, “without worrying that their products may be used in ways that threaten civilians and undermine human rights.”" Read more » about We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea
"Before the verdict came in, I talked to Ryan E. Long, a lawyer affiliated with Stanford's Center on Internet and Society, about the potential impact of this case on future internet-related trials. He zeroed in on the importance of authenticating the evidence that the government showed, and making sure it was obtained without violating the Constitution. Read more » about How the Silk Road Trial Could Lead to a Dangerous Legal Precedent
""Maybe these hackers are thinking: 'If we can attack state systems, we can get info that NSA isn't releasing," said Richard Forno, director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's, graduate cybersecurity program." Read more » about Cyber-attacks rising in Utah, likely due to NSA facility
"“Once upon a time, you had the rights to your property under the soil and to the sky,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor told the Atlantic in 2012. “It went by the colorful, Latin label “ad coelum et ad inferos” – to the heavens and hell.”" Read more » about Americans Okay with Police Drones, Worried About Private UAVs
