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Watch live: Encryption vs. the FBI
Please join us this Wednesday, Apr. 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. PDT for a discussion on encryption. What's the latest on encryption? Stanford University'…
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Europe’s Web Privacy Rules: Bad for Google, Bad for Everyone
In a concession to regulators, Google is . . . using “geo-blocking” technology to control what European users can see. Under the new system, Google will not onl…
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Can't find Prince on Spotify? Here's how to listen
""And there's no way this would be some kind of market substitute for the original Prince song", Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Daniel…
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Second Bid by Feds to Make Apple Unlock iPhone Ends in a Whimper
"Like the California case, the New York fight is ending "not with a bang, but with a whimper," said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at t…
Conservative professors live a closeted life. Here’s why.
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Jr. are the authors of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in The Progressive University, a new book from Oxford Uni…
Network Neutrality: A Perspective from the Frontline in the Battle for Free Speech in the Digital Era
Morgan Weiland delivers Convocation at Carleton College entitled "Network Neutrality: A Perspective from the Frontline in the Battle for Free Speech in the…
The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty
The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have alre…
This new book explains why so many Islamist extremists have studied engineering
Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog’s new book, “Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education,” examines why a disproportion…
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DMCA Classic, DMCA Turbo: Major new empirical research on notice and takedown operations
Good data about Notice and Takedown can be hard to find. Jennifer Urban and Laura Quilter’s seminal 2006 study has long been the gold standard, combining rigoro…
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When Rape Is Broadcast Live On The Internet
"Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, recognises that the current systems in place for fl…
Dr. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky
I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Most of the technologi…
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Europe Tried to Rein In Google. It Backfired.
"“If governments were handling ‘right to be forgotten,’ they would have to publish data,” said Martin Husovec, a professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law…