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Response to BEREC's Public Consultation Read more about Comments on Draft BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation of the Open Internet Regulation
By Daphne Keller on April 6, 2022 at 6:00 am
This post is about what I consider one of the hardest questions, particularly under laws that create special data-access regimes for researchers. What data are platforms supposed to share, and what personal information will it disclose about Internet users? This question pits privacy goals against data-access and research goals. A strongly pro-privacy answer will curtail research into questions of great public importance. A strongly pro-research answer will limit users’ privacy rights. In between lie a lot of difficult calls and complex trade-offs. Read more about User Privacy vs. Platform Transparency: The Conflicts Are Real and We Need to Talk About Them
By Richard Forno on March 28, 2022 at 5:55 am
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Read more about Local governments are attractive targets for hackers and are ill-prepared
By Riana Pfefferkorn on March 9, 2022 at 7:27 pm
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: Read more about Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away
By Richard Forno on February 24, 2022 at 11:20 am
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Read more about Ukraine conflict brings cybersecurity risks to US homes, businesses
By Riana Pfefferkorn on February 4, 2022 at 1:23 pm
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: Read more about The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever
“Today’s ruling by the Ninth Circuit is a big win for Californians and a free and open internet,” Stanford Center for Internet and Society Director Barbara van Schewick said in a statement. “It means California can continue to enforce its net neutrality law and protect Californians against unfair practices by the companies they pay to get online.” Read more about Appeals court upholds California’s right to enforce its net neutrality law while the FCC remains at a standstill
By Bryant Walker Smith on January 24, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Are you familiar with SAE J3016, the recommended practice that defines, among many other terms, the widely (mis)cited levels of driving automation? You can be! You could read one of the many purported (and often erroneous) summaries of it. You could read my short gloss on it. Or you could read the actual current document by downloading it for free from SAE's website. Go ahead. I'll wait. Read more about Deep in the Weeds of the Levels of Driving Automation Lurks an Ambiguous Minimal Risk Condition
By Bryant Walker Smith on December 17, 2021 at 8:16 am
Five years to the day after I criticized Uber for testing its self-proclaimed "self-driving" vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California's automated driving law, I find myself criticizing Tesla for testing its self-proclaimed "full self-driving" vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California's automated driving law. Read more about California's AV Testing Rules Apply to Tesla's "FSD"
“When the providers are telling you one thing, and the government is telling you another, then something’s broken and it needs to be fixed,” said Albert Gidari, who served as consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and recently retired. He has also represented Google as a lawyer in the past. Read more about Thousands of Geofence Warrants Appear to Be Missing from a California DOJ Transparency Database
