I’ve long thought that, as tough as privacy against government intrusion and corporate surveillance are, the most novel and complex privacy challenges will be peer-to-peer. With gov’t and corporate privacy issues, the players to be affected are more known and manageable, and impinging on their freedom to collect on us — or report what they […]

“The Big Brother Problem” is a timely, difficult, and sweeping topic, at WEF ’14, covering digital surveillance by both public and private actors and its implications for human rights.  I’ll be moderating the session for it this week, and I thought I’d share my thoughts on both process and substance as I prepare for it. […]

The HLS Library, in conjunction with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is pleased to announce two new project manager positions.  The newly posted Library Technology (LT) Project Manager will be responsible for design, implementation, and management of special and ongoing projects across the HLS Library. The recently posted Academic Technology (AT) Project Manager will […]

I wrote this in April of 2008 for The Times, and don’t think I ever posted it here — Humanizing the Web The Web’s design reflects the open ethos of its early users: it has no central managers, no main menu, and no investment in content – indeed, no business plan whatsoever. Instead, its framers […]

The accessibility and flexibility of the Internet is a double-edged sword. A distributed web makes it easy to publish content and link to it, but it also means that this content is by no means permanent: any given server or page can disappear or change at any time.  (For example, the U.S. federal government was […]