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Why Libraries Matter

September 10th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  Comments Off on Why Libraries Matter

I’ve written up a piece on Medium on why libraries matter — you can find it here: Vital parts of the Web are censored, poisoned, and lost amidst truthiness. Libraries are our unusual defense. With thanks to Knight Foundation for its new Library Challenge.

Righting the right to be forgotten

July 14th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  8 Comments

The F-T just published a piece I wrote about the implementation of the right to be forgotten in Europe.  Here is a draft from which the op-ed was drawn: Last week Google formally launched a blue-ribbon committee of advisors to help it implement the European Court of Justice’s new “right to be forgotten.” Its work is cut out […]

Time capsule crypto can help us commit our secrets to history

June 9th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  1 Comment

More than a decade ago, researchers at Boston College interviewed people from both sides of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, promising each contributor to the “Belfast Project” that his or her interview recording wouldn’t be released until the contributor died. In the meantime, the tapes would be deposited at the College’s rare books library under […]

The ten things that define you

May 15th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  2 Comments

I’ve written an op-ed for the New York Times about the European Court of Justice’s ruling finding a “right to be forgotten.” After that and my initial blog post in reaction to the court’s ruling, I wanted to share some further thoughts on this fascinating and potentially far-reaching development. First, a refresher on the facts: A […]

Is the EU compelling Google to become about.me?

May 13th, 2014  |  by z  |  published in Future of the Internet  |  17 Comments

Today the EU’s highest court interpreted the EU’s 1995 Data Protection Directive to mean that individuals should have a shot at insisting that Google and other search engines remove certain search results found upon a search for their names, not because they are false, or infringe copyright, but because they violate a “respect for private life” […]

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@paulg Imagine this phenomenon applied to legal reasoning: AI might predict what a judge would say and even write the appellate opinion. But then does the law stop developing in 2023? Do we have a pool of human judges to apply contemporary standards and create new training data?

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