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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There's a fine line between legitimate advertising practices and unwanted advertising practices, and finding where that line falls is a difficult one.
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We chose four quite common applications to highlight, and we have found that in each instance the applications do things to violate the guidelines.
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The state's abilities in terms of content control online -- through a mixture of methods -- should not be underestimated.
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Other companies that follow similar practices beware: This is just the beginning of what we hope to identify and publicize.
We think of it as a neighborhood watch.
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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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On the one hand, these are important, critical issues for the future of democracy in the world, and on the other, they're thorny and unpleasant to talk about. It's a massive brewing dispute.
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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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We do have companies in mind but we are not going to name names off the bat.
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Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.
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It's putting the providers of this software on notice that we're going to be paying attention.
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The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.
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Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.