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By Riana Pfefferkorn on May 21, 2019 at 1:28 pm
After 32 months of litigation, my quest to unseal my local federal district court's sealed surveillance docket has ended with not a single page unsealed and no prospective reforms in place. Read more about Court Denies Petition to Unseal Its Perma-Sealed Surveillance Docket
By Riana Pfefferkorn on May 16, 2019 at 1:01 pm
Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect democracy against what they call "information attacks" designed to undermine the public's trust in elections and other institutions for Read more about Essay in the Boston Review
By Daphne Keller on May 6, 2019 at 10:28 am
This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators of major Internet platforms should be held to the same First Amendment standards as the government, and prevented from using their Terms of Service or Community Guidelines to prohibit lawful speech. Read more about What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value
By Daphne Keller on May 6, 2019 at 10:19 am
By Daphne Keller on May 6, 2019 at 9:41 am
Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information. Read more about Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems
By Richard Forno on May 1, 2019 at 6:39 am
I'm pleased to be part of the inaugural group of security professionals standing up for the rights of technology owners to repair, re-use, fix, modify, and enhance the many modern products they buy, use, and depend on for work and personal use. Securepairs.Org is our voice on this critical architecture and public policy item, which has cybersecurity, operational, and resiliency considerations for every technology user. Read more about Prominent security pros enter the 'Right to Repair' debate
By Riana Pfefferkorn on April 29, 2019 at 7:58 pm
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” – The Wizard of Oz Read more about The Wonderful Wizards of Oz
By Daphne Keller on April 11, 2019 at 10:03 am
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By Barbara van Schewick on April 8, 2019 at 11:50 am
The following is the executive summary of an analysis I wrote looking at two bills in the House, both of which purport to restore the net neutrality protections in the 2015 Open Internet Order. Only one actually does so. The full six-page analysis can be downloaded here. (.pdf) Read more about Restoring Net Neutrality Protections: An Analysis of H.R. 1096 vs. H.R. 1644
By Jen King on March 29, 2019 at 2:45 pm
In collaboration with CIS Visiting Research Scholar Jana Gooth, we have (belatedly) submitted comments to the California Attorney General's office regarding California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This was a cooperative exercise between an information scientist (me) and a German lawyer (Jana), and we were able to work in many valuable insights from Jana's experience working on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Parliment. Read more about Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
