From Berkman Fellow danah boyd...Many people have asked me why I have not addressed the Megan Meier story that broke over the last month.

Your regular dose of public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

In our increasingly networked world, information relating to an individual is of interest for its commercial value and for its potential to help promote a safe electronic realm,…

Increasingly, governments are regulating the “Net” – that is, the Internet and people’s activities over it. Because the Net is global in nature, governments are turning to…

Spammers continue to run circles around the anti-spam police. Dozens of countries have antispam laws on the books, yet enforcement of the statutes is costly, infrequent, and…

The Internet filtering problem, on one level, is an unattractive candidate for the Internet governance decision-makers to take up.

In this study we explore the global effect of the Internet on democracy over the period of 1992 to 2002 by observing the relationships between measures related to democracy and…

Drawing from an early-adopter survey conducted through Gartner, Slater and McGuire find that consumer-to-consumer recommendation tools, like playlists, enable consumers to…