Today, I moderated a panel at the Cybersecurity Workshop at Central European University on the role that information law will play in cybersecurity. (Thanks to Kate Coyer, Stefaan Verhulst, Monroe Price, and Roxana Radu for inviting me!) Here’s basically what I said:
Cybersecurity may be the issue that leads states to re-fight the old battle of [...]
I’m attending the Cybersecurity Workshop at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop seeks to help researchers set an agenda for studying cybersecurity policy and issues. Tomorrow, I’m moderating a panel on the role that information law plays in cybersecurity, and I’ll post a precis of my talk here afterwards. There’s a great mix [...]
Over at Tim Bray’s Android Developers Blog, there is a fascinating post by Dan Morrill, the Open Source & Compatibility Program Manager for Android. (“Program Manager” is tech-speak; it generally means someone who tries to make sure that the trains run on time and that a given program / project stays on track to meeting [...]
Professor Richard Epstein (U. Chicago) and I have been debating Internet censorship, and the exchange is posted at the State Department’s America.gov site. This is a rematch of our Legal Affairs debate in 2006. I think the heart of the debate is Epstein’s position that there are universal moral norms that should govern (and, largely, [...]
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows:
Tom Jenkins of Open Text spoke at the London TechAlliance “Gearing Up For Growth” conference yesterday about digital media in Canada. He likened the current position of traditional media (TV, newspapers) to town criers at the advent of the printing press. Here’s one [...]
Readers of this blog with an interest in open-access issues may enjoy a pair of short essays I recently posted on SSRN. They bring together a fair amount of the thinking I previously deployed in piecemeal fashion on this blog here, here, here, here, here, and here. (My co-bloggers, of course, have written very perceptively [...]
On Friday, March 19, Brooklyn Law School hosts a symposium on data security and data privacy in the payment system. There’s a terrific lineup of speakers, including James Grimmelmann of NYLS, Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley, Sarah Jane Hughes from Indiana-Bloomington, Adam Levitin of Georgetown, Juliet Moringiello from Widener, Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall, and [...]
My friend and Berkman colleague Oliver Day and I have just released a new paper, The Hacker’s Aegis. It argues that intellectual property law has been hacked to block socially valuable research on software security. Moreover, we contend that software vulnerability data challenges existing assumptions, and scholarship, on how information about improvements to works protected [...]
Here’s a jaw-dropping accusation of privacy invasion, and another example of some major gaps in privacy law. A complaint filed in federal court in Philadelphia claims that officials at suburban Harriton High School remotely turned on the cameras in laptops issued to students and captured images, including at their homes. The school denies the allegations [...]
I had been hoping to read Bill Patry’s new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, over the winter holidays, but, thanks to a combination of short-fuse writing projects (about which I’ll have more to say soon) and a fairly grueling committee schedule (about which the less said, the better), that probably will not happen [...]