David Weinberger, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Brookline resident, launched a GoFundMe page Sunday as a way for Democrats to raise cash to help the North Carolina GOP reopen its office.
Source: Democrats raise money for firebombed GOP headquarters through GoFundMe – Metro
Democrats joined a campaign to raise $10,000 to reopen the GOP office, meeting the goal in less than 40 minutes and “showing that Americans are thirsty for civility and decency, and that we love our democracy above all differences,” wrote the GoFundMe drive’s creator, David Weinberger, a researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Source: Clinton, Trump condemn Republican Party office firebombing | CTV News
Yarden Katz is a departmental fellow in Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and a fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He received his PhD in neuroscience from MIT in 2014.
Source: Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to patent trolls – Medium
For public figures, according to Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, “the actual malice standard extends to statements involving virtually any aspect of their private lives.”
Source: Trump Can Sue for Defamation, but Proving It is a Different Story – Law Blog – WSJ
Kendra K. Albert, an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, urged audience members at a Harvard Law School event Tuesday to examine critically the use of legal terminology in casual settings outside the court of law.
According to research from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, data protection like encryption won’t be enough to ensure that information is kept private.
Source: 5 Tech Issues Lawyers Should Be Prepared to Discuss With Clients – Technologist
Will paranoia reduce misbehavior, or will humans be humans and maintain our blithe and blundering ways? “It’s hard to change our daily habits,” says Jonathan Zittrain, a co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Source: What Surveillance Will Look Like in the Future – The Atlantic
Yet he’s amassed a network of volunteers keen to get involved, thanks in part to his frequent cameos on the thought-leader speaker circuit, including talks at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; the O’Reilly Design Conference; an internal meeting of Facebook designers; and a TEDx event, whose video has been viewed more than 1 million times online.
Source: Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic
Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, which provides pro-bono legal services to clients in matters involving the Internet, technology and intellectual property, filed friend-of-the-court briefs in both cases.
Source: Cyberlaw wins two victories in local court – Harvard Law Today
As part of Boston’s HUBweek, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Susan Crawford addressed a gathering of more than 100 people at Harvard Law School in September and made the case for her new Responsive Communities Initiative, a three-pronged program aimed at addressing issues of social justice, civil liberties, and economic development involving high-speed Internet access and government use of data. The initiative is based at HLS and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
Source: Susan Crawford makes the case for the Responsive Communities Initiative – Harvard Law Today