Here’s how Google is helping, not hurting, democracy
Sean Richey and J. Benjamin Taylor have a new book on how Google searches affect democratic knowledge, “Google and Democracy: Politics and the Power of the Inte…
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State Hacking An Option To Overcome Encryption, IGF Hears
"The days of unfettered access to internet content are over, Riana Pfefferkorn of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society told government representati…
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What will happen now that net neutrality is gone? We asked the experts
"With the Dec. 14 repeal, Comcast and others will be able to charge content companies exorbitant fees without, technically, blocking. This fundamentally ch…
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In 2017, society started taking AI bias seriously
""2017, perhaps, was a watershed year, and I predict that in the next year or two the issue is only going to continue to increase in importance,"…
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State-led Interference in Encrypted Systems: A Public Debate on Different Policy Approaches
"Ms Riana Pfefferkorn, Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in the USA, argued that while governments suggest companies should live up to…
Three Questions on the WannaCry Attribution to North Korea
The Trump Administration this week formally accused the North Korean government of responsibility for the WannaCry ransomware attacks that hobbled hundreds of t…
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Elon Law Scholar, David Levine, Named to Jennings Professorship
"A faculty member who frequently publishes and presents on complex issues related to intellectual property, privacy, technology and information flow has be…
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New Low-Cost Spy Satellites Are Getting Scarily Powerful
"“We can imagine a series of market-rational decisions that produce a society we really don’t want,” says Neil Richards, an expert on privacy issues and a…
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Where Were Netflix and Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
"Ryan Singel, a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and a former reporter at Wired, agrees that it’s hard to imagine the Google…
The benefits of police body cams are a myth
In the three years since Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, police body-worn cameras have been sold to the public as a tool that would primarily deter…
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Net Neutrality Repeal Undermines Black Efforts to Combat Racial Bias in the Media, Activists Say
""The vote to repeal net neutrality is easily the most unpopular decision the FCC has ever made," said Malkia Cyril, a civil rights activist and…
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The Citizen’s Dilemma
" I pose the question to Stanford’s Gidari: Would you use this app in a crisis? He doesn’t take long to answer in the negative. “This is a poor substitute…