“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.
Berkman Fellow Camille Francois’ op-ed in Wired on self-driving cards.
Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry | Opinion | WIRED.
Hwang stayed on at the Berkman Center after graduation. He and his friends would sit around and complain about the lack of cool things to do in Boston. So Hwang launched the Awesome Foundation. They each threw in $100 to make a $1,000 grant for the creation of something “awesome.” The first grant went to a Rhode Island School of Design professor who applied to make a 33-foot-long hammock that sat in Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
It’s a shift that’s changing teaching in the humanities as well. “It’s a project-based model where students learn by actually being engaged in a collaborative, team-based experience of actually creating original scholarship, developing a small piece of a larger mosaic — getting their hands dirty, working with digital media tools, making arguments in video, doing ethnographic work,” said Jeffrey Schnapp, founder and faculty director of metaLAB at Harvard, an arts and humanities research and teaching unit of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.