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• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 6 – Experts Discuss Preventing Intellectual Property Theft

  Consumers and Corporations, First Amendment, Podcast, Privacy and National Security March 18, 2012 at 12:00 pm 0 comments

  Daniel Mandil, Associate General Counsel for Viacom, and Fred von Lohmann, Senior Copyright Counsel for Google, provide two perspectives on how to best balance internet freedom and protection of intellectual property. Mr. Mandil, now at Viacom, was formerly an attorney for the Motion Picture Association of America, and Mr. von Lohmann worked previously at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Their different perspectives provide a sensible discussion on how to move forward and ensure that both intellectual property and intellectual freedom are protected in the digital age.

   

• CR-CL Podcast – Episode 0 – U.S. v. Jones and SOPA/PIPA

  Podcast February 6, 2012 at 7:55 pm 0 comments

  Harvard CR-CL is proud to publish the first episode of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Podcast! In this inaugural episode, Senior Online Editor Noah Kaplan talks with Executive Online Editor Matt Giffin about the recent Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking units, United States v. Jones, and about the response to the proposed copyright protection legislation SOPA and PIPA.

   

• Cause for Optimism on Google's Privacy Policy?

  By Andrew Mamo, Consumers and Corporations, Privacy and National Security February 5, 2012 at 11:50 pm 2 comments

  There are clear tradeoffs involved in Google’s new privacy policy, but what does it suggest for the growing problem of data privacy more generally? Despite the seeming novelty of privacy problems in the age of the Internet, we can learn a few lessons by turning to privacy problems at the beginning of the information age.

   

• Kids, Sex, and Free Speech

  Education, First Amendment, Issue Areas March 30, 2011 at 8:21 pm 5 comments

  Kids will be kids, but ‘sexting’ may lead to federal child pornography charges and sex offender registration for the nation’s youth. ‘Sexting’ is a growing phenomenon among adolescents: equipped with cell phones and teenage dreams, adolescents ‘sext’ when they take nude or semi-nude photographs and text or email them to friends or significant others.

   

• In America, Privacy Takes a Back Seat

  By Daniel Nazar, Issue Areas, Privacy and National Security December 19, 2010 at 4:12 pm 13 comments

  By Daniel Nazar As a nation, America lacks strong privacy protections. While we live in a country proud of its constitutionally guaranteed rights, it wasn’t clear until the 2003 Lawrence decision that privacy was protected enough to prevent states from criminalizing some forms of consensual sex in the privacy of [...]