But some observers are skeptical. Susan Crawford, a Harvard Law School professor and director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said it’s unclear whether Fios will actually result in lower prices and better service because of the increased competition with Comcast.
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Plus, encryption poses no existential threat to law enforcement for several reasons, a panel of experts at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society concluded in a February report.
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End-to-end encryption generally “would conflict with the advertising model and presumably curtail revenues,” Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society noted in a February report.
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End-to-end encryption generally “would conflict with the advertising model and presumably curtail revenues,” Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society noted in a February report. It concluded that profit-driven tech firms “have little incentive to veer from this model, making it unlikely that end-to-end encryption will become ubiquitous across applications and services.”
Source: Will Google And Facebook Copy WhatsApp’s Encryption Tech? | Foreign Policy
Lumen, which is a Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society project studying online content take-down requests, claims that in the past four months, Vobile has filed more than 350 take-down notices against Google, asking the search giant to remove suspected URLs from its search results, the report says.
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Encryption is more common, but as more devices are linked to the internet, more unencrypted data will be available. “The trajectory of technological development points to a future abundant in unencrypted data,” wrote several researchers in a recent paper from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Over roughly the past four months, Vobile filed more than 350 takedown notices to Google, according to Lumen, a Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society project studying online content takedown requests. The notices ask Google to remove the suspected URLs from its search results.
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‘The Transparency Reporting Toolkit: Survey and Best Practice Memos,’ a new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Open Technology Initiative, is a compilation of eight memos that look at the major challenges that U.S. Internet and telecommunications companies face when reporting on U.S. law enforcement and government requests for user information, and identify industry best practices for this transparency reporting.
“While it is appropriate for law enforcement, with a warrant, to use a security flaw to gain access to which it is legally entitled, the flaw should be patched as soon as possible for everyone else’s sake,” Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard Law School, told the Monitor.
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In a recent report published by Havard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a team of experts pointed out that some powerful trends will continue to “facilitate government access” to personal information.