The Real Culprit in the Apple-FBI Encryption Dispute: Congress – The American Prospect, 9 March 2016

As a report last month from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society explained, federal officials have been raising alarm bells since 2010 about what FBI Director James Comey has called the risk that terrorists and other dangerous criminals are “going dark.”

Source: The Real Culprit in the Apple-FBI Encryption Dispute: Congress

An A-Z of Women Pushing Boundaries in Science and Tech | Motherboard, 8 March 2016

Darling is at the forefront of technology and the law and a leading expert in robot ethics. As a research specialist at MIT’s Media Lab, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and a visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, Darling has written extensively about robot ethics, intellectual property, and the intersection of technology and society.

Source: An A-Z of Women Pushing Boundaries in Science and Tech | Motherboard

Apple’s Conflict With The FBI Over Unlocking An iPhone Is A ‘Bellwether’, Not The ‘Case Of The Century’ | WGBH News, 8 March 2016

“Many other paths to data are available. We are exuding data all over the place,” said Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It. “The FBI has chosen this case … in large part, I think, because there is so little privacy interest on the other side.”

Source: Apple’s Conflict With The FBI Over Unlocking An iPhone Is A ‘Bellwether’, Not The ‘Case Of The Century’ | WGBH News

Going Dark? FBI Not So Blind Despite Apple iPhone And Other Encrypted Devices – International Business Times, 7 March 2016

A report published last month by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University called “Don’t Panic: Making Progress on the Going Dark Debate” suggests the FBI is using the wrong metaphor. While it concedes that encryption and “provider-opaque services” make surveillance more difficult in certain cases, the landscape is far more varied. “There are and will always be pockets of dimness and some dark spots — communications channels resistant to surveillance — but this does not mean we are completely ‘going dark’,” the report said.

Source: Going Dark? FBI Not So Blind Despite Apple iPhone And Other Encrypted Devices

China Is Watching the FBI-Apple Battle Very Closely – Defense One, 4 March 2016

As a recent report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University argues, there are now massive amounts of data generated through the Internet of Things (cars, thermostats, surveillance cameras and hundreds of devices other connected devices) and the metadata (time, location, address, but not content) produced by cell phones and Internet communications.

Source: China Is Watching the FBI-Apple Battle Very Closely