Zittrain Warns of the Cloud
Jonathan Zittrain expands on the themes in his must-read book this morning in a must-read New York Times op-ed about the shift toward cloud computing. A taste of the main point:
[T]he most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate. The crucial [...]
Canadian Privacy Commissioner: Facebook Violates National Law
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, a federal regulator responsible for overseeing compliance with that country’s broad data protection statute, has issued a long-awaited report on Facebook’s privacy practices. The investigation was triggered by a formal complaint filed by students at the University of Ontario’s cyberlaw clinic. The result is a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis that [...]
Cool Job for a Bioethics Guru
My school, the University of Minnesota, is seeking applicants for a very cool job that mixes expertise in law, policy, technology, medicine, and ethics. You can check out the full job announcement; a taste follows:
The Associate Director of Research & Education for the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life [...]
Passwords and Post-Its
Bruce Schneier links to a paper from HotSec that argues strong passwords accomplish little; instead, stronger user IDs and limits on log-in attempts are better solutions. (Implicit in this argument is that dictionary or guessing attacks are lower-priority threats than phishing or keyloggers.) And John Kelly of the Washington Post bemoans the standard yet brain-dead [...]
Mickey Kaus Discovers Section 230
Yep, it’s all Section 230, all the time here at Info/Law! Makes for a nice change from filtering. Mickey Kaus writes about the threat by Sarah Palin’s attorney to sue anyone defaming her, and also those who republish such defamation. He’s astonished to learn that Section 230 could shield him and other bloggers. (I’d presume [...]
Is Corporate Compliance Deceitful?
My friend and colleague Miriam Baer, an expert on corporate compliance and criminal law, thinks that it is – and that we should be more skeptical of compliance (a favorite buzzword post-Enron and post-meltdown). The clash between transparency and compliance is a troubling one that I hadn’t thought about before; Miriam’s paper is an important [...]
Trademarks, Movies, and the Clearance Culture
As I hole up in my ivory tower writing about trademark fair use reform this summer, it’s nice to know that the issue might matter in the outside world. In a pair of signs yesterday, I ran across two different news articles showing how seriously our overbroad trademark rights are constraining free expression.
First, while waiting [...]
Iran and the New Net
Iranian demonstrators protesting the recent election results (which look dicey) – and their opponents – are using networked technologies to communicate and organize, including Twitter, blogs, SMS, and the like. John Palfrey, Rob Faris, and Bruce Etling point out, though, that these capabilities, while empowering, won’t carry the day. Whether the demonstrations succeed depends on [...]
Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship
I delivered my “Crowdsourcing and Open Access” presentation earlier today at CALICon09. A huge thank-you to all who attended; I learned a good deal from the comments and questions (as always happens at these things) and it was a very enjoyable experience. I spent a good part of the presentation talking about how crowdsourced proofreading [...]
Follow CFP 2009 Live
You can follow along with Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009 (”Creating the Future”) even if you’re not here in DC (where the weather is surprisingly lovely for June): via Twitter at Tweezup, the CFP blog, and streaming video. The Filtering panel, which also now includes Catherine Crump from the ACLU and Nicole Wong from Google, [...]
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