J.R.McHale

> **Cybersecurity**: [How Does the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 change the Internet Surveillance Laws?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/12/24/how-does-the-cybersecurity-act-of-2015-change-the-internet-surveillance-laws/) – Orin Kerr in the Washington Post

> **TPP**:

>> [The Trouble with the TPP](http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/01/the-trouble-with-the-tpp-day-1-u-s-blocks-balancing-objectives/) – Canadian law professor, Michael Geist, is blogging every weekday until February 4th on what he believes are the significant problems with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The link is to his first daily post in the series

>> Human Rights Watch’s [TPP Q&A](https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/12/qa-trans-pacific-partnership)

>> [Trans-Pacific Partnership is a Wonderful Idea . . . for China](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/trans-pacific-partnership-is-a-wonderful-idea-for-china/article27939142/) – Dan Breznitz (University of Toronto) in the Globe and Mail

>> See also: my earlier posts on the TPP – [here](https://www.jrmchale.org/2015/10/quote-of-the-day-on-the-tpp/) and [here](https://www.jrmchale.org/2015/07/impact-of-trade-pacts-on-ip-and-the-internet-link-roundup/)

> **EU vs. US on Data + Privacy**:

>> [The Transatlantic Data War – Europe Fights Back Against the NSA](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2015-12-14/transatlantic-data-war) – Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman in Foreign Affairs

>> [Time to Get Serious About Europe’s Sabotage of US Terror Intelligence Programs](http://www.skatingonstilts.com/skating-on-stilts/2016/01/time-to-get-serious-about-europes-sabotage-of-us-terror-intelligence-programs-.html) – Stewart Baker at his “Skating on Stilts” book-related website; “Skating on Stilts” has been released as a free creative commons book available [here](http://www.skatingonstilts.com/skating-on-stilts/tired-of-reading-chapters-backwards.html)

> **More on Privacy**: [Lawrence Lessig: Technology Will Create New Models for Privacy Regulation](http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/12/30/lawrence-lessig-how-technology-policy-will-evolve/) – Wall Street Journal, and [A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?](https://www.justsecurity.org/28752/keystrokes-solve-crime-press-enter/) – Jonathan Zittrain at JustSecurity

> **Internet Access**: [How Facebook Stumbled On Its Quest to Give Internet Away For Free](http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-facebooks-plan-to-give-the-world-free-mobile-internet-we#.ed86zwVoK) – BuzzFeed; See Also: [Tech’s ‘Frightful 5’ Will Dominate Digital Life for Foreseeable Future](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/technology/techs-frightful-5-will-dominate-digital-life-for-foreseeable-future.html?utm_source=loopinsight.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+loopinsight%2FKqJb+(The+Loop)&utm_content=FeedBurner&_r=0) – New York Times

> **Whistleblower Protections**: [Protect Intelligence Whistleblowers](http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/39/protect-intelligence-whistleblowers/) – Mieke Eoyang in Democracy Journal, and PEN America’s report [Secret Sources: Whistleblowers, National Security and Free Expression](http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Secret%20Sources%20report.pdf) (pdf; 40 pages)

> **Freedom of Information Act Reform**: [Here’s How the Senate Should Fix the FOIA Reform Bill](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/heres-how-senate-should-fix-foia-reform-bill) – EFF

> **Cybercrime**: [Judges Struggle with Cyber Crime Punishment](http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/265285-judges-struggle-with-cyber-crime-punishment) – The Hill

> **TOR**:

>> How Tor Works: [Part One](http://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/02/28/how-tor-works-part-one/); [Part Two](http://jordan-wright.com/blog/2015/05/09/how-tor-works-part-two-relays-vs-bridges/) – Jordan Wright

>> [How Tor’s Privacy was (Momentarily) Broken, and the Questions it Raises](http://theconversation.com/how-tors-privacy-was-momentarily-broken-and-the-questions-it-raises-52048) – The Conversation

>> [Shari Steele on Online Anonymity: Tor Staff are ‘Freedom Fighters’](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/11/shari-steele-tor-encryption-online-anonymity-censorship) – Guardian

> **IoT**: [DMCA and the Internet of Things](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/12/dmca_and_the_in.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter) and [The Internet of Things that Talk About You Behind Your Back](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/01/the_internet_of.html) – Bruce Schneier at his Schneier on Security. See also: [The problem with self-driving cars: who controls the code?](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/the-problem-with-self-driving-cars-who-controls-the-code) – Cory Doctorow in The Guardian

> **Robots**: [Robots in War: the Next Weapons of Mass Destruction?](http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/robots-in-war-the-next-weapons-of-mass-destruction) – UCBerkeley professor, Stuart Russell; Related: [What If: Robots Go to War?](http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2016/sessions/what-if-robots-go-to-war) Davos World Economic Forum (video; substance begins at 3:40)

> **The Mobile Internet**: [16 Mobile Theses](http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/12/15/16-mobile-theses) – Benedict Evans

> **IP and Startups**: [Oculus Faces Messy Ownership Claims Over Its Head Mounted Display: Total Recall v. Luckey](http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2016/01/oculus-faces-messy-ownership-claims-over-its-head-mounted-display-total-recall-v-luckey.htm) – Technology & Marketing Law Blog

> **Tech and Age Discrimination**: [Is Ageism in Tech an Under-the-Radar Diversity Issue?](http://www.fastcompany.com/3054204/the-future-of-work/is-ageism-in-tech-an-under-the-radar-diversity-issue) – FastCompany, and [Here’s How to Start Closing Silicon Valley’s Age Gap](https://medium.com/backchannel/here-s-how-to-start-closing-silicon-valley-s-age-gap-f127a6646de8#.srt6kej26) – Steven Levy

> #### General Interest