{"id":775,"date":"2014-03-03T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=775"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:56:13","slug":"promise-and-peril-in-an-ultra-connected-world-the-washington-post-2-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/03\/03\/promise-and-peril-in-an-ultra-connected-world-the-washington-post-2-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise and peril in an ultra-connected world &#8211; The Washington Post, 2 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard University, said it\u2019s difficult for people to say no when presented with immediate benefits because any potential problems are vague and years away.\u201cInformation seems harmless and trivial at the moment, but can be recorded forever . and can be combined with other data,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve come to terms with that yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/promise-and-peril-in-an-ultra-connected-world\/2014\/03\/02\/8f99ec54-a1dc-11e3-878c-65222df220eb_story.html?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=173c45ee20-News_Law_Monday_March_3_2014_3_3_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-173c45ee20-259577617\">Promise and peril in an ultra-connected world &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard University, said it\u2019s difficult for people to say no when presented with immediate benefits because any potential problems are vague and years away.\u201cInformation seems harmless and trivial at the moment, but can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/03\/03\/promise-and-peril-in-an-ultra-connected-world-the-washington-post-2-march-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}