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.
Students of every stripe use DASH, as do teachers at community colleges, independent scholars, researchers from library-poor countries, medical patients, and legions of the merely curious. “Academics have underestimated the non-academic demand for their work,” said Suber, who is also director of the Harvard Open Access Project and a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Last week Google created an advisory committee to help it implement the “right to be forgotten” online that has been demanded by the European Court of Justice. It has its work cut out: the search giant has received more than 70,000 requests since May to decouple a claimant’s name from search results that may be true but are deemed “irrelevant” and presumably reputation-damaging.
via The right to be forgotten ruling leaves nagging doubts – FT.com.
“The surveillance law that purports to protect American communications contains several major loopholes,” said Axel Arnbak, a security and privacy law researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center For Internet & Society. “We’ve found several known and also several new ways that intelligence agencies can exploit the legal loopholes.”
via Scholars warn of NSA loopholes – Business – The Boston Globe.
What’s the goal of my project? Which technology best serves my project? What is my audience and what is the best platform to reach them? For instance, if my audience is a poor community that primarily gets most of its news from the radio and they don’t have a lot of Internet access, does it make sense to do a rich HTML5 presentation?
via Ivan Sigal on Bringing New Ideas and Underrepresented Voices to Storytelling.
“This is the amount spent by the NSA in fiscal year 2013 under what it calls its corporate-partner access project,” Says Susan Crawford, visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. “What they’re doing is reimbursing telecommunications companies for domestic surveillance of all internet traffic”
via Data on our data: The cost of surveillance | Marketplace.org.
For a bit more technical detail, here’s a five-minute video about how mesh networks could “revolutionize and democratize the way people share data” from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society:
via The Promise of a New Internet – Adrienne LaFrance – The Atlantic.
WBUR’s Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with a Harvard professor about “digital gerrymandering” and how to prevent it.
via Could Facebook Or Google Manipulate An Election? | Radio Boston.
A new report from the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Journalist’s Resource project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy puts the SCOTUSblog fight in a national perspective. What is happening to SCOTUSblog in Washington, DC, is happening to journalists around the country. As the landscape of news is changing, laws and guidelines that dictate who can get a press pass are causing problems and, at times, blocking access to important new journalism organizations and individuals.
Decisions about cloud-based education technology should be made at the district level, at least at this point in time, advise three researchers from the Student Privacy Initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
via Ed-Tech Decisions Best Made at District Level, Researchers Say – Marketplace K-12 – Education Week.