{"id":4051,"date":"2016-04-28T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:02:22","slug":"jon-penney-on-chilling-effects-insights-on-how-laws-and-surveillance-impact-people-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2016\/04\/28\/jon-penney-on-chilling-effects-insights-on-how-laws-and-surveillance-impact-people-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Penney on &#8220;Chilling Effects&#8221;: Insights on How Laws and Surveillance Impact People Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Internet censorship and mass surveillance on the rise globally, understanding regulatory &#8220;chilling effects&#8221; &#8212; the idea that laws, regulations, or state surveillance can deter people from exercising their freedoms or engaging in entirely legal activities &#8212; has thus today, in our Post-Snowden world, taken on greater urgency and public importance.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Jon Penney &#8212; doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (Balliol College), and a research fellow at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto &#8212; fills in some of the gaps in our understanding of chilling effects online. Through discussion of three empirical legal case studies &#8212; one on surveillance-related chilling effects and Wikipedia, a second on the impact of the DMCA&#8217;s copyright enforcement scheme, and a third survey-based study on &#8220;chilling effect scenarios&#8221; &#8212; Jon offers insights into the nature and scale of regulatory chilling effects online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-04-27_penney\/2016-04-27_penney.mp4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-04-27_penney\/2016-04-27_penney.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016-04-27_penney\/2016-04-27_penney.ogv\">in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on this event <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2016\/04\/Penney\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Internet censorship and mass surveillance on the rise globally, understanding regulatory &#8220;chilling effects&#8221; &#8212; the idea that laws, regulations, or state surveillance can deter people from exercising their freedoms or engaging in entirely legal activities &#8212; has thus today, in our Post-Snowden world, taken on greater urgency and public importance. In this talk, Jon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}