Our News Roundup leads with the long, slow death of Section 230 immunity. Nick Weaver explains why he thinks social media’s pursuit of engagement has led to a poisonous online environment, and Matthew Heiman replays the astonishing international consensus that Silicon Valley deserves the blame – and the regulation – for all that ails… Continue Reading
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Episode 241: “You’ll never know how evil a technology can be until the engineers deploying it fear for their jobs”
Posted in International, Security Programs & PoliciesI propose this episode’s title as Baker’s Law of Evil Technology, something that explains Twitter’s dysfunctional woke-ness, Yahoo’s crappy security, and Uber’s deadly autonomous vehicles. Companies with lots of revenue can afford to offer a lot of stuff they don’t much care about, including protection of minority voices, security, and, um, not killing people…. Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Paul Rosenzweig
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesEpisode 60 of the Cyberlaw Podcast features Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC and Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Most importantly he was a superb Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security when I was Assistant Secretary. Paul discourses on the latest developments in ICANN, almost persuading me… Continue Reading