In that light the debate over encryption doesnt seem like a tailored response to the threat but rather something law enforcement have been trying to pursue for sometime said Andy Sellars a fellow at Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Why Donald Trump Cant Actually Close Parts of the Internet TIME, 16 December 2015
The Internet is designed to be decentralized says Andy Sellars a fellow at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic. Its designed to be that no single power could deny its use. Thats served the Internet quite well because its allowed it to grow in unexpected ways.
Twitter can be a mean place. Meet @TheNiceBot. – The Washington Post, 11 December 2015
David Weinberger, a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an author who focuses on the impact of technology on ideas, apparently agrees:
Source: Twitter can be a mean place. Meet @TheNiceBot. – The Washington Post
The Internet’s Loop of Action and Reaction Is Worsening – The New York Times, 9 December 2015
“The academic in me says that discourse norms have shifted,” said Susan Benesch, a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the director of the Dangerous Speech Project, an effort to study speech that leads to violence. “It’s become so common to figuratively walk through garbage and violent imagery online that people have accepted it in a way. And it’s become so noisy that you have to shout more loudly, and more shockingly, to be heard.”
Source: The Internet’s Loop of Action and Reaction Is Worsening – The New York Times
Innovation, Invention Key Strategies at both MIT and Harvard University | The Drum, 9 December 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a hub of technological innovation influenced by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where academic and technological collaboration fuels the tech industry in Massachusetts.
Source: Innovation, Invention Key Strategies at both MIT and Harvard University | The Drum
The False Tradeoff Between Customer Experience and Customer Privacy | CustomerThink, 8 December 2015
France may consider public Wi-Fi ban during emergencies – Technology & Science – CBC News, 8 December 2015
Nathan Freitas is a fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He argues it’s precisely during states of emergency when open Wi-Fi is at its most useful, especially when the regular cellphone networks are down.
Source: France may consider public Wi-Fi ban during emergencies – Technology & Science – CBC News
Cable Company Uses Social Media to Shame Late Payers | Money Talks News, 7 December 2015
Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, tells CBS MoneyWatch that social media is an “immense power” because the list of delinquent customers could show if someone searched online for one of those customers’ names. For example, an employer could decide not to hire a job candidate after encountering his or her name on Senga’s list.
Source: Cable Company Uses Social Media to Shame Late Payers | Money Talks News
Is it OK to shame late-paying customers on Facebook? – CBS News, 4 December 2015
“This is a huge deal,” said Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Security. “You are dealing with this immense power. When someone searches for you, it shows up. How do we deal with that?”He added, “The issue isn’t whether people are deadbeats and should pay. The issue is whether the punishment fits the crime.” For instance, a potential employer could search for one of those cable customers singled out by the cable company, and decide not to hire the candidate because of the posting. “Now you’ll lose your career and your life because you didn’t pay your cable bill,” Schneier said.
Source: Is it OK to shame late-paying customers on Facebook? – CBS News