John Palfrey
John Palfrey
John Palfreyis a leading American educator, scholar, and law professor. He is a notable authority on the legal aspects of emerging media, and he is an advocate for Internet freedom, including increased online transparency and accountability as well as child safety. He was selected to be the Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2012. He has been an important figure at Harvard Law School and served as executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet &...
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Intruders are now in your house without your permission. They entered through your computer to bombard you with sneaky pop-ups and install tracking software to spy on your every move and steal your most personal information.
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We think there's enormous value ... in giving consumers more control and giving them more information before they do something that could be damaging to their computers. The longer-term goal is we hope that these reports ... will lead the providers of applications to operate more openly and more transparently.
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Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.
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We do have companies in mind but we are not going to name names off the bat.
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For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.
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For too long, these companies have been able to hide in the shadows of the Internet. What we're after is a more accountable Internet.
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Massachusetts is the canary in the mine on this issue. If Massachusetts gets this right, others will follow.
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We have a whole bunch more lined up behind this one.
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There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.
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China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.
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Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.
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It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.
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Research now means a Google search.
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Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside the classroom