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But the Internet is a difficult place to police. "The law is frankly very ill-suited to respond to that," says Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law. "It doesn't really offer a great tool to respond to unwanted attention." Read more » about Internet Memes And 'The Right To Be Forgotten'
Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University and noted expert on the FTC, argued that a decision against the commission could harm consumers. Read more » about Regulator accused of overstepping on cybersecurity enforcement
With the Net Neutrality regulations essentially giving the FCC the power to arbitrate the Internet’s open playing field, Barbara van Schewick - a Stanford University professor of law, and director of the school’s Center for Internet and Society – said that the regulations “ensure that every American — no matter the size of their wallets or the color of their skin — has an equal chance to innovate and reach people online.” Read more » about FCC’s 3-2 vote codifies Net Neutrality concept
“In 2010 large companies like Google, eBay, Microsoft, and Skype, were really important partners in the fight for network neutrality rules,” says Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford professor who has written about net neutrality. “They lobbied the FTC; they send their lobbyists to Congress; they all submitted detailed comments to the FCC. This round of the net neutrality debate was very different.” Read more » about How Google's Silence Helped Net Neutrality Win
The new rules, are expected to be passed, and according to Marvin Ammori, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and a tech company advisor on net neutrality, it’s the New York tech community that is “completely owning this victory.” He said they have been standing up and defending an open internet—not the California Giants tech giants. Read more » about A ‘Free Ride': Silicon Valley Tech Companies Sit Out Net Neutrality Fight Amid FCC Vote
"I think zero-rating is the next big threat to innovation and free speech online," says Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School. She says the problem with some zero-rating plans is that they create an un-level playing field — where wireless companies can favor their own video services, for example, or strike business deals that favor other big companies. Read more » about What Net Neutrality Rules Could Mean For Your Wireless Carrier
"If you care about Skyping with your grandma or sending email or watching something on Vimeo or sharing a meme on Tumblr … the reason they exist is [because] we've had an open, neutral Internet where anybody could create anything and you could use it," said Marvin Ammori, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Read more » about FCC's net neutrality plan spurs debate on how to keep open Internet
"It seemed impossible a year ago because if you made a power map, you’d have seen a modest, courageous coalition of small web companies, political activists, and public interest groups on the one hand, and the biggest monopolists on the other. The biggest organizational players in support of Title II classification were groups that did not exist 15 years ago. Read more » about How the Little Guys Beat the Monopolists on Net Neutrality
"“For many younger companies, the focus has been more on building the product out and less on guaranteeing a level of comprehensive privacy and security protection commensurate with the sensitive information associated with education,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer science graduate student at Stanford University. “It seems to be a recurring theme.”" Read more » about Uncovering Security Flaws in Digital Education Products for Schoolchildren
"The decision came under quick fire from Web activists and, soon after, by 150 Internet companies including giants like Google and Netflix, who sent a letter warning that it represented a “grave threat to the Internet.”
The letter made it clear that Web companies had a stake in the fight and “totally shifted the way people in D.C. thought about it,” said Marvin Ammori, a tech policy lawyer who helped to rally startups around the push. " Read more » about FCC head: Hero or puppet?
"Barbara van Schewick and Morgan Weiland detailed the bill’s holes in The Stanford Law Review, ultimately calling it “network neutrality in name only.” Read more » about Surprise, surprise: There's a partisan divide in the net neutrality debate
"Peter Asaro has spent the past few years lobbying the international community for a ban on killer robots as the founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. He believes that it’s time for “a clear international prohibition on their development and use.” According to him, this would let companies like Clearpath continue to cook up cool stuff, “without worrying that their products may be used in ways that threaten civilians and undermine human rights.”" Read more » about We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea
""Maybe these hackers are thinking: 'If we can attack state systems, we can get info that NSA isn't releasing," said Richard Forno, director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's, graduate cybersecurity program." Read more » about Cyber-attacks rising in Utah, likely due to NSA facility
"Before the verdict came in, I talked to Ryan E. Long, a lawyer affiliated with Stanford's Center on Internet and Society, about the potential impact of this case on future internet-related trials. He zeroed in on the importance of authenticating the evidence that the government showed, and making sure it was obtained without violating the Constitution. Read more » about How the Silk Road Trial Could Lead to a Dangerous Legal Precedent
""For the millennial generation, taking away an open Internet is like, for an older generation, taking away Social Security or Medicare—or for some people in the red states, taking away their guns," Ammori said. "If you try to do this, they will call Congress every day. They will think you are a corrupt stooge."" Read more » about How a Ragtag Band of Activists Won the Battle for Net Neutrality
"“Once upon a time, you had the rights to your property under the soil and to the sky,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor told the Atlantic in 2012. “It went by the colorful, Latin label “ad coelum et ad inferos” – to the heavens and hell.”" Read more » about Americans Okay with Police Drones, Worried About Private UAVs
""I've gotten messages from people in the start-up community where they're pinching themselves to make sure it's real, they're really pumped," said Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who advises major tech companies and supports net neutrality." Read more » about FCC Chief Announces Big Win For Net Neutrality Advocates
"Broadband companies generally liked the FCC chairman’s approach, but net-neutrality die-hards quickly started mobilizing against it. Last April, Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who advises startups and Web companies, warned in a meeting at Tumblr’s headquarters in the Flatiron District of New York City that Internet regulation was a do-or-die necessity for small firms." Read more » about Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief
"I worry ... that there isn't the expertise in government to deal with robotics, whether it's drones or driverless cars." Read more » about Robotics-law expert Ryan Calo weighs in on drone regulations -- and 'drunk droning'