Susan Crawford, the co-author of a report from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, reports for Backchannel that in Western Massachusetts, for instance, tens of thousands of residents are “forced to rely on satellite or awful DSL connections.”
Source: Why High-Speed Internet is So Slow to Reach Rural America
The Berkman Center’s privacy-focused projects include Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data and the Student Privacy Initiative. Gasser has written extensively on a variety of privacy related issues, such as student privacy, privacy behaviors on social media, and privacy law, both within the U.S. and abroad, independently and through his capacity as executive director of the Berkman Center.
Source: Students host mini-symposium on data privacy – Harvard Law Today
Still, despite anxieties over “going dark”, a February report from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University said the situation was not as dire as law enforcement had described and that investigators were not “headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible”.
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The report from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society highlights nagging gaps in Massachusetts’ modern Internet infrastructure, which researchers said “is fast becoming a basic need like electricity or water.”
Source: Broadband connections still lag in Western Mass. – The Boston Globe
The public startup organization is called WiredWest. Today the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University released a report on the project, which will allow up to 31 towns to collectively finance, operate, and provide services over a fiber optic network—no need for Verizon or other major incumbents.
Source: WiredWest Needs State Help to Bring Broadband to Western MA: Report | Xconomy
The collectives behind the localized project are In-media and Keyboard Frontline and Dr. Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Chinese University of Hong Kong and a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Still, despite anxieties over ‘‘going dark,’’ a February report from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University said the situation was not as dire as law enforcement had described and that investigators were not ‘‘headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible.’’
Source: FBI: Using third parties to break encryption not only answer – The Boston Globe
The Consortium of Networked Schools (CoSN), in partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, has released a new online resource to help school districts leverage their options for expanded fiber connectivity opportunities under the federal E-rate program.
Source: CoSN resource aims to help schools with fiber internet connections | Education Dive
It was localised by Hong Kong-based groups In-media and Keyboard Frontline and Dr. Lokman Tsui, an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Source: New app helps citizens find out what Hong Kong companies know about them | Hong Kong Free Press
Similarly, in a panel on the subject the previous day, Patrick Murck, fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and former executive director of the bitcoin industry trade group the Bitcoin Foundation, said he “chafes” at the term, coined by Nick Szabo in 1997.
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