[liberationtech] London job for Liberty

2015-09-24 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
In case anyone’s interested, there’s a really interesting job coming up in London (UK): Policy Officer (Technology and Surveillance) for Liberty, one of the biggest human rights and civil liberties NGOs in the UK. You can find the details here:

Re: [liberationtech] Big data ethics

2014-03-02 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
The academic article behind it is also online, here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2384174 It’s a good piece, I think! Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email:

Re: [liberationtech] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated

2014-01-28 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Looks great - will order it, and tweet about it. Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email: paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk Web: http://www.paulbernal.co.uk/ Blog: http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/

Re: [liberationtech] Recommended surveillance readings?

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
From a legal perspective, an interesting recent piece is Neil Richards' The Dangers of Surveillance: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/may13/Symposium_9477.php On 13 Sep 2013, at 16:09, Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.orgmailto:rgue...@privaterra.org wrote: A global context would

Re: [liberationtech] {Spam?} Re: Travellers' mobile phone data seized by police at border

2013-07-16 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Our police do it to 'suspects' inside the UK too… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18102793 The Metropolitan Police has implemented a system to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody. The data includes call history, texts and contacts, and the BBC has learned that it will

Re: [liberationtech] Paper on Google Glass

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
subject our lives to constant peer approval. I think that wisdom of the crowd only works when individuals in the crowd are not subjected to the same bias. Raven Jiang Stanford University Computer Science soraven.comhttp://www.soraven.com/ On 10 July 2013 11:08, Paul Bernal (LAW) paul.ber

Re: [liberationtech] Secret European deals to hand over private data to America

2013-06-30 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
You're right of course: it was a facile reply of mine, particularly on here. It's how we respond that matters. On 30 Jun 2013, at 04:10, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Paul Bernal (LAW): None of this should be surprising, should it? It's a reasonable assumption that all

Re: [liberationtech] Secret European deals to hand over private data to America

2013-06-29 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
None of this should be surprising, should it? It's a reasonable assumption that all intelligence agencies share their data on a pretty regular basis - certainly with 'friendly' nations, and almost certainly with others, on a quid pro quo basis. It's always been that way. On 29 Jun 2013, at

Re: [liberationtech] {Spam?} Re: NYT: Obama’s German Storm

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
://paulbernal.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @paulbernalUK On 21 Jun 2013, at 08:20, fukami f...@foo.iomailto:f...@foo.io wrote: Hey Paul! On 18.06.2013, at 11:48, Paul Bernal (LAW) paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk wrote: This all needs to be viewed in the context of complex and contentious

Re: [liberationtech] NYT: Obama’s German Storm

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
This all needs to be viewed in the context of complex and contentious internal wrangling within the EU over the data protection reform package. What the PRISM saga does is strengthen the hand of those within the EU advocating for a stronger new package, and less watering down. To an extent this

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
This all rings very true for me: I'm a legal academic, and barely a geek, and in reality I barely ever use crypto. I was at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference in Berkeley last week when the PRISM story broke, and we had a special session at the end of the conference to talk about what we knew

[liberationtech] Mexico's Geo-location law

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
A quick question: I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find a good English translation of the Mexican Geo-location/Geo-localization law, do they? Many thanks Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email:

Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Reply to list, if possible. Kind regards Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email: paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk Web: http://www.paulbernal.co.uk/ Blog: http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/ Twitter:

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Well done!! Sent from my iPhone On 21 Mar 2013, at 14:10, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.ccmailto:na...@nadim.cc wrote: We did it! Our Skype Open Letter worked!!! *Pats self on back* NK On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Losey lo...@newamerica.netmailto:lo...@newamerica.net wrote: From

Re: [liberationtech] CNN writer on leaving Facebook

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Hi Jon Thanks for the detailed response - and I can see your points. Indeed, to an extent I agree with them! I'll try to do a more detailed response tomorrow, but just a few points now. 1. On privacy, I agree, it's more about helping get a more 'savvy' community than anything else. 2. On

Re: [liberationtech] CNN writer on leaving Facebook

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
In case anyone's interested, I've written about this before too: my 10 reasons to leave Facebook. http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/10-reasons-to-leave-facebook/ There's quite a lot of stuff written on this in the academic world. Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: Launch Date!

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
-57565690/activists-to-microsoft-who-is-requesting-our-skype-data/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/9827215/Microsoft-urged-to-open-up-over-privacy-of-Skype-data.html NK On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Paul Bernal (LAW) paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk wrote: It's

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I like it - keep me on the letter. Many thanks for all your work. Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email: paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk Web: http://www.paulbernal.co.uk/ Blog:

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I'd like to sign too, if you'd like it! Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email: paul.ber...@uea.ac.ukmailto:paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk Web: http://www.paulbernal.co.uk/ Blog: http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/ Twitter:

[liberationtech] Facebook wants you to snitch?

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I've been following a story on twitter and wondered if anyone knew the background - and in particular, whether it's true! The story suggests that Facebook is experimenting with asking people to confirm whether their friends are who they say they are: here's a tweet about it.

Re: [liberationtech] Opinion on a paper?

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
joss-liberationt...@pseudonymity.netmailto:joss-liberationt...@pseudonymity.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:19:22PM +, Paul Bernal (LAW) wrote: I wondered if anyone had an opinion on it - I don't have the technical knowledge to be able to evaluate it properly. The basic conclusion seems

Re: [liberationtech] Opinion on a paper?

2012-09-09 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Thanks! Sent from my iPhone On 9 Sep 2012, at 20:18, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.commailto:jschnei...@pobox.com wrote: Paul, You might ask Arvind Narayanan -- reidentification is his expertise: http://33bits.org/about/ -Jodi On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Paul Bernal (LAW) paul.ber

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech Mailing List Survey

2012-08-19 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I'm entirely neutral on all three questions: I post rarely, but when I do I write on the assumption that my posts are effectively public. Paul Sent from my iPhone On 18 Aug 2012, at 17:00, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edumailto:compa...@stanford.edu wrote: Just a reminder about the

Re: [liberationtech] Peter Theil On Arab spring

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I don't suppose there's an online version of the Howard and Hussain article for Journal of Democracy available, is there? I'm struggling to get access to it from here. Kind regards Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email:

[liberationtech] The right to be forgotten

2012-05-26 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
In case anyone's interested, I've written a short piece (about 1,000 words) for the Open Rights Group zine about the right to be forgotten - a kind of 'right to be forgotten for dummies'. The idea's to give a sense of what the right actually is - rather than how it's presented in the media -