Regulate Tech

In this episode we are discussing the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and the recently proposed UN convention as well -- what can we learn from the 20 years since the original Budapest convention launched and why should we be engaged in the work the UN now seems to be undertaking with very little public attention paid to it? How should we approach issues related to new crimes, new evidence and cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies? 

https://www.coe.int/en/web/cybercrime/the-budapest-convention

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/13/cybercrime-dangerous-new-un-treaty-could-be-worse-rights

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad 

In this episode we discuss hearings, what goes on behind the curtains and how you can survive - but never win - a hearing. Tune in to learn about different parliaments and the tricks of the trade! 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

This episode is dedicated to digging deeper on transparency from first principles. How should we understand the increasing demands on transparency and the different legislative proposals? What does transparency really mean and what are the design dimensions of transparency? 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

One of the most heated and interesting debates about tech policy for the early Internet was embodied in the idea of network neutrality. In this episode we discuss the past, present and future of network neutrality, incumbents vs challengers, zero-rating and how we should think about network neutrality now. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this season opener we discuss governments surveillance, NSO, scanning phones for illegal materials, Enchrochat, Anom and much more! What limits should we look for when we think about government surveillance and how can such limits be implemented and enforced? 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this, the season's last episode, we recommend some summer reading. The full list below! We will be back third week of August! 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

The list: 

Alan Rusbridger Breaking the News

Gary Klein Sources of Power

Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind

Julia Galef The Scout Mindset

Dunbar et al, Thinking Big

China Mieville The City and The City

John Connolly The Dirty South 

David Spiegelhalter, Art of Statistics

Jill Lepore If Then

Stephen Coleman How Voters Feel

In this episode we dig into the craft a bit more and discuss collaboration and competition in the policy space, companies briefing against each-other and why standards is the next space to really watch out for. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

Midsummer's Eve episode! In this episode we return to the classics, and one of the texts that has been both praised and ridiculed - John Perry Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace from 1996. What has happened since it was written and how has the tech policy space changed -- where was Barlow right and what did he get wrong. Far from dismissing Barlow we try to engage with the text and look at what we can learn from reading classics. 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this episode we discuss big tech, competition policy and the question of the future of antitrust. We also note that companies get big by competing, but stay big through regulation and that the Internet is going from a farmers' market to a pharma market!

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad

In this episode we discuss the emerging law on the right to disconnect, work/life balance and the question of what is actually happening to jobs and work as the pandemic lifts. How do we think about the workplace of the future, privacy and leisure time? 

Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad