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 do have companies in mind but we are not going to name names off the bat.
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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 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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Filtering technologies, and the way that they are implemented, are becoming more sophisticated.
We think of it as a neighborhood watch.
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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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Massachusetts is the canary in the mine on this issue. If Massachusetts gets this right, others will follow.
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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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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.
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We have a whole bunch more lined up behind this one.
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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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It's related to the problems that Yahoo and Microsoft and others are facing in China, ... but here the issue is that these technology security companies are directly profiting from the censorship regime itself.