Why losing a trade vote in Congress may strengthen America’s bargaining position
The House has just voted down an item of legislation that was critical to Obama’s hopes to get authority to negotiate TPP, a trade deal with countries in the Pa…
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The Open Internet Order Becomes Law: Why Faith Leaders are Celebrating
Read the full piece at The Huffington Post. Today, after more than a year of national debate, the Open Internet Order goes into effect. The Order keeps the Int…
5 Reasons the Future of Faith Depends on the Open Internet
Today, the Open Internet Order goes into effect. Many business owners, entrepreneurs, and economists are praising the order as a win for the economy. But there’…
Save the Internet: 12 Faith Voices You Should Hear
Today, the Open Internet Order becomes effective. Adopted after a year of national debate, the order codifies “net neutrality” — the principle that keeps the In…
Computers Are Getting Better Than Humans at Facial Recognition
Perceiving whether someone is sad, happy, or angry by the way he turns up his nose or knits his brow comes naturally to humans. Most of us are good at reading f…
Automated and Autonomous Driving: Regulation Under Uncertainty
This report examines various emerging regulatory issues surrounding the deployment of automated and autonomous vehicles. This work was based on the expert opini…
Regulation and the Risk of Inaction
Abstract This chapter begins with two fundamental questions: How should risk be allocated in the face of significant uncertainty—and who should decide? Its foc…
Open Wireless Advocates to European Court: Don't Make Us Lock Down Our Networks
Cross-posted from EFF. The vision of a world of shared open wireless is a compelling one—it means that wherever you go in an urban or other covered area, the c…
Status update: Facebook users now have access to PGP encryption
Today Facebook announced on its blog a new set of features adding support for the PGP email encryption system. The changes allow users to post their public emai…
The Dread Pirate Roberts was as much lawmaker as lawbreaker
Ross Ulbricht, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts and created the Silk Road online drugs market, has just been sentenced to life in prison. In a letter…
A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
In the wake of a recent appellate court’s decision that the NSA’s domestic dragnet collection of phone call records is illegal, political support for maintainin…
Siri Is Judging You
In a fresh and recent whitepaper, Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes and law student Jodie Liu turn the standard privacy argument on its head:…