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If our devices, information, and institutions are to remain secure, smart government regulation is inevitable

Government access to encrypted data is best conceptualized as a "wicked problem": one where the goals are unclear, the information is incomplete, and the solutions are always…

The shift away from social exchange and toward markets, and what this means for the sharing economy

On the importance of thinking about both the human rights implications and the ethics of AI.

On the state of information controls in Azerbaijan

Journalists have a new task at hand: to report on what information tech companies collect and to surface the extent to which public institutions use personal data

Foreign meddling is to our politics what a fever is to tuberculosis: a mere symptom of a deeper problem.

India is attempting to create a complex new framework for data protection that will require firms to physically host user data, but they might be moving too fast.

To really prioritize user privacy would also mean to compromise an underlying business model that has been very successful

Cynthia Rudin shares her 10 minute presentation, “Please Stop Doing Explainable ML.”

A theoretical model of platform moderation, and how sites like Twitter and Facebook should think about when and why to suppress certain objectionable content

Yochai Benkler at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.

Our Cyberlaw Clinic has urged the Ninth Circuit court not to touch a lower court decision ending a corporate landlord's lawsuit accusing Airbnb of helping tenants break building…

Profiling six areas where current deployments of artificial intelligence are having an impact on human rights

A discussion on how to think about technology, politics, and media in the post-truth moment

A service providing off-grid communications services to everyday people received the grand prize at the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) Challenge from Mozilla…

"The First Amendment is rather unique. Free speech is widely protected with very few exceptions."

New policies aim to protect the privacy and security of personal data. How can trust be strengthened in the digital economy?

Internet companies need "information fiduciaries" to ensure that the consumer's best interest is kept at heart.

"We're all so aware of AI's tremendous power as a tool for manipulating customers and citizens that there are official calls to make AI dumber"