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A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data

April 6th, 2018  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  Comments Off on A novel way of defending against mass uses of our data

AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook — either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people consent to the access — and then use a well-trained categorizer to automatically discern ethnicity, […]

Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?

June 29th, 2015  |  by z  |  published in cybersecurity  |  Comments Off on Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?

I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week’s question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself among good company among the noes, including Dan Kaminsky and Dan Geer.  My answer: […]

Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan (Transcript)

January 19th, 2015  |  by Benjamin Sobel  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  Comments Off on Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan (Transcript)

Jonathan Zittrain: This is Jonathan Zittrain speaking. I’m on the line, wherever that is, with one Eric Kaplan, author of “Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Investigation,” a book that I had the pleasure of reading and that Eric had the burden of writing—and we thought we would talk about it for a little bit. So, […]

Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan

December 26th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  Comments Off on Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan

Eric Kaplan is a writer and producer of the Big Bang Theory. He’s also a student and teacher of philosophy. Put the two together and you get Does Santa Exist?, an exploration of metaphysics, life, and ethics, from the point of view of a dangerously smart comedian. Eric and I recorded a conversation about his book, below.  (Spoiler non-alert: […]

Everything you should know about … warrant canaries

December 8th, 2014  |  by ngilens  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  1 Comment

  Guest post by Naomi Gilens, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School [I’m pleased to feature on the blog some of the best work undertaken by HLS students on Internet-related topics. –JZ] In 2002, the FBI used the newly-passed Patriot Act to demand that libraries secretly turn over records of patrons’ reading materials and Internet use. The […]

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Of course, in transformative tech it seems like there are only two phases in evaluating risk: too early to tell, and too late to do anything about it.

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So, as François Chollet succinctly put it after the February letter: twitter.com/fchollet/statu…

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