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Ontario students win charter challenge
"The ruling also shows how hard it can be for schools to balance increasingly high expectations of safety and also increasingly high standards of respect f…
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How Ukrainian immigrants used a Tor-like network to send uncensored letters during the Cold War
"“Everyone who came to the States was anxious to link up with friends and family back home but everything was monitored,” she said in a telephone interview…
CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Victoria Stodden and David Levine - Basing Rules on Empirical Evidence: Transparency in Lawmaking
Full video available at CITP's YouTube Channel. The increasing use of empirical evidence in policy making is raising questions about rules that govern the…
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Woman With The Fate Of The Internet In Her Hands Reveals Thoughts On Upcoming Net Neutrality Vote
"However, multiple sources told The Huffington Post that the proposal of Clyburn's described in The Hill could actually make net neutrality rules stron…
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Five Loopholes That Could Undermine Net Neutrality
"Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor who specializes in Internet policy issues, thinks Wheeler’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. Full details of…
God in the Machine: The Role of Religion in Net Neutrality Debates
The public movement to protect a free and open Internet is approaching a critical moment this week: on February 26, the Federal Communications Commission will v…
How social science explains the Silk Road
I just wrote an article at Aeon, looking at the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the Texan who created and ran the online drugs market Silk Road. The piece uses…
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How Much Training Do You Need to Be a Robocar Test Driver? It Depends On Whom You Work For
"Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Polytechnic State University, adds, “Allowing manufacturers to have variable…
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The Mutual Legal Assistance Problem explained
Following Edward Snowden revelations, it’s an understatement to say that governments were unhappy with their citizens' data being managed solely under US la…
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Your Kid's School Is Missing the Tech Revolution, and It's All Your Fault
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrif…
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Getting net neutrality right: Four improvements to take us across the finish line
This Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to reclassify ISPs like Verizon and Comcast that connect us to the Internet as common carri…
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Lawsuits’ Lurid Details Draw an Online Crowd
"In interviews, several plaintiffs’ lawyers said the current online environment was already deterring potential clients from filing suit. Now a Google sear…