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Copyright, Remix and the Art of Collaborative Media: A conversation with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Falzone
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May 16, 2019
On this episode of National Security Podcast, Katherine Mansted speaks to Scott Schakelford, Angie Raymond, and Abbey Stemler on social media’s influence on democracies, and what international law has to say about data sharing.
April 13, 2019
A recent Supreme Court case, Carpenter v United States, questioned whether the government could get location data from a cell phone company for a criminal case. The Court held that the government needs a warrant to procure cellphone information because, as Justice Roberts said, “the time stamp data that comes from your cell phone site location information provides an intimate window in a person’s life, revealing not only his particular movements but through them his familiar, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.
February 21, 2019
February 18, 2019
In this episode, The Stream speaks with tech industry experts and policy analysts to explore whether the Indian government’s plan will ensure public safety or set a dangerous precedent.
January 18, 2019
Speaking before the audience at the recent IAPP Data Protection Congress in Brussels, keynoter Woody Hartzog made a challenging assertion: "Control is the wrong goal for privacy by design, perhaps the wrong goal for data protection in general." But isn't control a central tenet of good privacy? It sure is. But it shouldn't be, the author of "Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" argued. While everyone emphasizes "control" of personal data as core to privacy, too much zeal for control dilutes efforts to design information tech correctly.
January 15, 2019
The latest in the EU's string of internet regulatory efforts has a new target: terrorist propaganda. Just as with past regulations, the proposed rules seem onerous and insane, creating huge liability for internet platforms that fail to do the impossible.
December 13, 2018
In 1968, Science published the now-famous paper “The Tragedy of the Commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin. In it, Hardin questioned society’s ability to manage shared resources, concluding that individuals will act in their self-interest and ultimately spoil the resource.
December 10, 2018
In the digital age, the fact Australians still vote using paper and pencils might seem a bit quaint, or even out of date.
But researchers both here and in the US say hand-written ballots are actually helping keep Australian elections secure.
They're recommending the US go back to paper-voting, though that seems unlikely.
And despite the evidence against electronic voting, the shift towards it is already underway here.
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December 5, 2018
We're yet to see the details of the deal between the Government and Labor which would allow the passage of laws to give police and investigators access to encrypted messages.
That leaves one more day in this sitting of Parliament to get the laws through, after the Government claimed there was an urgent need to do so before Christmas.
December 4, 2018
Design is one of the most important but overlooked factors that determines people’s privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves ― even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.