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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

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Future of the Internet Blog

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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@juliacarriew Truth. It seems a variety of the food is bad, and the portions are small -- both no trust for effective moderation, and not enough of it, particularly outside the company's core income-generating jurisdictions. Sure seems like govt's have a new openness to regulation.

About 11 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

@juliacarriew I share your doubt that anyone can run a social network at this scale in a responsible way. Which raises a question down the line: what is the alternative, and how would we get to it? It's awfully hard to do much beyond subsidizing alternatives without hitting 1st A issues.

About 11 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web App

@Jefe @Cryptoterra I guess some of it is of a piece with other unpaid professional internships that are now being widely rightly revisited. But to ask someone to wait tables for free is so far removed from any concept of apprenticeship that it really gives the lie to the whole thing.

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@Cryptoterra I had no idea this was a thing

About 3 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@FoxCahn @normative It’d be helpful to have the relevant platforms gathering cell phone location data make clear that they will disclose any civil subpoenas lodged, and fight them. Ditto for intermediaries. (Also, hard but not impossible to imagine a pre-litigation subpoena being upheld here.)

About 4 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

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