The Berkman Klein Center, with key input from senior researcher David O’Brien, an attorney, and fellow Alexandra Wood, plays an important role in this part of the project together with Sweeney, IQSS chief data science and technology officer Mercè Crosas, fellow Michael Bar-Sinai, data scientist Micah Altman of MIT, Chong, and three of Chong’s students: Ph.D. candidate Aaron Bembenek, Obasi Shaw ’17, and Kevin Wang ’18.

Source: Deploying Differential Privacy to Protect Human Research Data | Harvard Magazine

The deportation force envisioned by Trump, targeted with court-released Facebook data, is a legal possibility. “We’ve built the mechanism to enable a police state,” says Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Source: We already have a Muslim registry. It’s called Facebook (FB), Google (Goog), and every major technology company that tracks its users — Quartz

Joining the show to remember some of the top cybersecurity issues in the news this year, including the Democratic National Committee hack, the “Internet Of Things” malware attack and more, is Harvard Berkman fellow and security expert Bruce Schneier.

Source: Reflecting On 2016: The Year In Cybersecurity | Radio Boston

Twitter and Facebook will continue to survive for a few more years. We will see new players emerging in the future. Live streaming of videos is an emerging trend that will be an interesting thing to watch out for. – Noopur Raval, Affiliate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Source: Throwing light on 2016 in social media – The Hindu

Earlier this year, John Palfrey ’01, head of school at Phillips Academy and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03, Harvard Law School professor of practice and executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, published “Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age,” an expansion of their celebrated 2008 book “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.”

Source: ‘Born Digital’ Redux – Harvard Law Today

The wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in conjunction with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at MIT and research affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Source: VICE News sues FBI for info on Trump, the Clintons, and Breitbart News – VICE News

The Harmful Speech Online project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce a new set of publications authored by a global and multidisciplinary group of project collaborators within our community.

Source: New publications examine harmful speech online | Harvard Gazette

Uber has said it plans to monitor the location of riders only during and immediately after a ride. But Greg Leppert, who is affiliated with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, is concerned about the amount of data Uber could conceivably gather.

Source: Does a better Uber rider tracking app signal the rise of Big Brother in tech? – CSMonitor.com

To lay the legal foundation for the Digital Age, policymakers need to start wrapping their minds around the idea that we’re living in an era of technology, where everything we depend on is a computer that may be connected to the internet, says cryptographer Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Source: Should companies be held liable for software flaws?

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes, Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Professor Yochai Benkler, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and Alaska State Senator Bill Wielechowski may not agree on everything, but they agree on this: Cash handouts have the potential to help Americans and the American economy.

Source: Facebook co-founder’s new $10 million initiative to test if cash handouts will help fix America