We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
Cross-posted from Wired Opinion. Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net n…
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New Just Security Post: We All Go Down Together
I have a new post up at Just Security today. In it, I point to the fact that ongoing NSA revelations show that significant surveillance activities are taking…
NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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Can policy keep up with technology? New UW lab gets $1.7M from Microsoft
"The three founding directors are Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor at the UW’s School of Law; UW Associate Professor Tadayoshi Kohno, from Computer Science a…
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UW, Microsoft create Tech Policy Lab
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law and a founding director of the lab, said technology policy can rarely be addressed by a single discipline." *…
Privacy Substitutes
Privacy Substitutes by Jonathan Mayer & Arvind Narayanan Debates over information privacy are often framed as an inescapable conflict between competing int…
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Meet our 2013 Legal Rebels
"Design thinking has finally reached the text-heavy, no-nonsense bastion of law, and recent Stanford Law grad Margaret Hagan is drawing a lot of attention…
Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations and Trade Secrecy
Comments submitted to the Bureau of Land Management regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations and Trade Secrecy. * Publication Type:Regulatory Filing * Publ…
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Initial Thoughts on POTUS surveillance reforms
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
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Amash Amendment to defund NSA surveillance fails narrowly
In a closely watched vote that ended within the past hour, the US House of Representatives narrowly rejected Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment (205-217)…
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Could Overreaction to Cybersecurity Threats Hurt Transparency at Home?
Last week, President Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the ongoing problem of Chinese cyber espionage. The Obama administration has recentl…