Debunking privacy myths. Privacy is not merely an elitist concern, argues Berkman fellow Malavika Jayaram. As she explains in this piece in Scroll.in, "privacy helps secure and implement equality." Of particular concern, she writes in the Mumbai Mirror, is intellectual privacy, which, against the backdrop of newly-installed facial recognition surveillance software in the city of Surat, may be at risk.
Fixing the Chaotic Crowdworker Economy. The people, "doing the digital piecework required to make the Internet seem magically automated," are a growing segment of the US labor market. As incoming fellow Mary L. Gray argues in Bloomberg View, they need "an objective third-party registry that allows [them] to build their resumes and establish reputations," as well as increased transparency and collaboration.
When forgetting isn't best. The Right to be Forgotten is a "bad solution to a real problem," according to faculty chair Jonathan Zittrain. In a recent talk at the Berkman Center, he outlined what's wrong with the ruling and what could be done instead.
Seven years after Bitcoin was unleashed on the world, we look at how digital currency and its underlying technology are changing the way we think about money.
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