Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Privacy Rethinks and the Example of Privacy-Preserving Marketplaces

Tuesday, June 28, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

Societal demands to share large-scale collections of detailed personal information are driving new directions for privacy. These rethinks are happening within legacy environments (e.g., the HIPAA Privacy Rule). And these rethinks are happening at architectural levels too (e.g., open consent). Our prior research exposes ways of thinking about design components when architecting privacy solutions, and so, we use this lens to examine some new architectures in depth. One of these will be the privacy-preserving marketplace paradigm, which seeks to design data sharing arrangements as markets that must insulate or compensate data subjects for economic harms. Latanya Sweeney,PhD is a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and founder and director of the Data Privacy Lab. She has a long history of weaving technology and policy together to remove stakeholder barriers to technology adoption and has impacted American privacy policy. Her work is explicitly cited in 2 federal regulations (the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Health Data Breach Regulation). In 2009, GAO appointed her to the Federal HIT Policy Committee. She received her PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, see http://dataprivacylab.org/people/sweeney. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

Cultivating New voices, Approaches, and Audiences for national - and international - reporting in an era of global interconnectedness and shrinking news budgets

Monday, July 11, 5:00pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society / Location TBA. RSVP Required.

The Berkman Center will host a conversation about the challenges of reporting international stories to US and Global audiences. In an age of shrinking news budgets, American newspapers and broadcasters are producing less original reporting of international stories. And while gripping events like the Arab Spring capture the attention of the public, many important international stories fail to capture widespread attention. The challenges for international reporting are both ones of supply (who reports the news from around the world?) and demand (who pays attention?) This conversation was inspired by the work of Berkman Fellow Persephone Miel, whose work focused on how compelling narrative and context for international stories could make unfamiliar international news more accessible to American and global audiences. Her efforts to support and promote talented local, non-US journalists whose work has the potential for global impact, but need to overcome significant obstacles to succeed, are continued through a fellowship established in her honor by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Journalists Fatima Tlisova (Voice of America) and Pulitzer Prize winner Dele Olojede will join Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center/C4/Global Voices), Colin Maclay (Berkman Center), Ivan Sigal (Global Voices) and the Miel family for a discussion and reflection on these questions, and on Persephone's work and the journalistic values she championed. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

The Internet and the Commerce Clause through the Prism of the Federal Kidnapping Act

Tuesday, July 12, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

Should kidnapping be a federal crime where use of the Internet or other telecommunications facilities is central to the crime's execution, but the physical act itself takes place within the borders of a single state? Through the case study of the harrowing kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Brooke Bennett, this article examines a uniquely 21st century legal question about federalism, technology and criminal law. In 2006, the Federal Kidnapping Act was amended to broaden federal jurisdiction in a clear effort to reach kidnappings committed by Internet sexual predators. The article that is the subject of this talk is the first non-student piece to address this amendment, and the only one to date to defend it. Michele Martinez Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, where she specializes in criminal law and criminal procedure. Professor Martinez Campbell graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received her JD with distinction from Stanford Law School. After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert F. Peckham, Chief Judge of the Northern District of California, then spent three years as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. She spent eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York (covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island), where she served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Unit. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

The Hacker's Aegis - Protecting Hackers From Lawyers

Tuesday, July 19, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

Research on software security vulnerabilities is a valuable example of peer production. However, hackers are often threatened with intellectual property lawsuits by companies who want to keep flaws secret. Oliver Day and Derek Bambauer propose a liability shield for security research to improve cybersecurity in a world dependent on cloud computing and mobile platforms. Come debate whether hackers are whistleblowers, and how legal immunity affects security when cyberweapons like Stuxnet are increasingly available. Derek Bambauer teaches Internet law and intellectual property and publishes articles on intellectual property, information control, and health law. He has also written technical articles on data recovery and fault tolerance, and on deployment of software upgrades. Oliver Day currently works at Akamai as a security researcher. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

Hyperlinking Hyper-Public #1: Videos, Visual Map, and Symposium Redux

In the coming weeks, we will be releasing videos, audio, visualizations, and other outputs from "Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space," which took place on June 10th at Harvard University. Hyper-Public brought together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians, artists and legal scholars to discuss how design influences privacy and public space, how it shapes and is shaped by human behavior and experience, and how it can cultivate norms such as tolerance and diversity. As the first post in our series of recaps, we have collected videos from Urs Gasser, Judith Donath, John Palfrey, danah boyd, and Adam Greenfield, as well as a visual map put together by Berkman's Youth & Media team. find these materials and much more on our site>