Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard, said companies realized how high the stakes were and were hiring accordingly.“A tweet-length change to a law could spell the difference between success and failure of an entire new sector,” he said.
via Uber Picks David Plouffe to Wage Regulatory Fight – NYTimes.com.
People socialize online more than ever: posting photos on Instagram, job-hunting on LinkedIn, joking about politics on Twitter, and sharing reviews of everything from hotels to running shoes. Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, argues against using real names for most of these Internet interactions and relying instead on pseudonyms.
Others are less sure that you can draw a straight line from Snowden to the changes in al-Qaida’s encryption program. Bruce Schneier, a technologist and fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, said it’s hard to tell.
via Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior : The Two-Way : NPR.