{"id":7,"date":"2011-11-08T16:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:46:54","slug":"assessing-digital-preemption","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/assessing-digital-preemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Digital Preemption (and the Future of Law Enforcement?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>14 New Criminal L. Rev. 576 (2011)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1735479\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract: \u00a0Like \u201cchild-safe\u201d toys, modern technological tools can be designed to prevent users from harming themselves and others. For instance, vehicle manufacturers are testing cars that would automatically brake when a collision is imminent. And digital programming can target moral as well as physical harms. The\u00a0iPhone was designed to allow Apple to remove applications from users\u2019 devices,\u00a0a capability it utilized to excise sexually suggestive applications in early 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Government may increasingly seek to manipulate digital design to make it\u00a0difficult or impossible to break laws using digital devices. In a 2008 book,\u00a0Jonathan Zittrain discusses this approach, which he calls \u201cpreemption.\u201d\u00a0Zittrain argues persuasively that digital preemption gives serious cause for concern.\u00a0But he admits that \u201cour instincts for when we object to such code are not well\u00a0formed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article attempts to fill that gap by connecting digital preemption to existing literature and analyzing the most significant unexplored risks of digital\u00a0preemption. The article starts by situating preemption among related enforcement techniques. Next, the article explores two key objections to digital preemption that have not been developed in previous discussions. The article concludes\u00a0with policy suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 New Criminal L. Rev. 576 (2011) Full article Abstract: \u00a0Like \u201cchild-safe\u201d toys, modern technological tools can be designed to prevent users from harming themselves and others. For instance, vehicle manufacturers are testing cars that would automatically brake when a collision is imminent. And digital programming can target moral as well as physical harms. The\u00a0iPhone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dannyrosenthal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}