California must lead on cybersecurity
By Jonathan Mayer and Edward W. Felten Special to The Bee No state has more at stake on cybersecurity than California. From Hollywood’s intellectual property…
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The Latest Rules on How Long NSA Can Keep Americans’ Encrypted Data Look Too Familiar
Does the National Security Agency (NSA) have the authority to collect and keep all encrypted Internet traffic for as long as is necessary to decrypt that traffi…
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Abstract: Most people believe that privacy and free speech are always at odds. People all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of m…
Why our success in managing the banking crisis was the mother of failure
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also…
Classifying media and encryption as a threat is danger to press freedom
The U.K. prides itself on its commitment to free expression, but the latest revelations of surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain's Prime Minister…
New Republican Bill Is Network Neutrality in Name Only
After a year of debates and a month before the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) rulemaking on network neutrality, the GOP has finally joined the party…
Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: What a Nondiscrimination Rule Should Look Like
Download article from the Stanford Law Review.Over the past ten years, the debate over “network neutrality” has remained one of the central debates in Internet…
Ongwen Onward to the Hague: Lord’s Resistance Army commander to face justice
Media are reporting that Dominic Ongwen, the Joseph Kony deputy who defected last week from the Lord’s Resistance Army, will be transferred to the International…
A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What?
It is always fun, and sometimes worrying, to see imagination come to life. I was on a panel last year at UC Berkeley around robotics and law. We talked about so…
Why We Need a Federal Agency on Robotics
The robots are no longer coming; they are here. And the law's response has been lacking. Many believe that the Federal Aviation Administration has overstepp…
Open Net
st summer, I argued that U.S. President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to push for “net neutrality” might end up being “the biggest technology-related failure of…
The Surveillance State’s Legalism Isn’t About Morals, It’s About Manipulating the Rules
Cross-posted from Just Security. Margo Schlanger has written a great article forthcoming in the Harvard National Security Journal about intelligence legalism,…