Tech Policy Grind

All right listeners, This is Tech Policy Grind, a show all about the exciting, occassionally inspiring things happening in internet law and policy - My name is Emory and this week, I'm excited because I get to bring you all along with me to Rightscon 2018, one of the coolest things I've gotten to do in my professional career so far.

Rightscon is the world's leading conference on human rights in the digital age, with thousands of attendees, more than 450 panels, hosted over 3 days (4 if you count day zero events) last month in Toronto. I was there this year, Joe Jerome was there too, as well as most everyone that's been on our show so far!

Coming up is a two parter - first, you'll hear my conversation with Javier Palero of Access Now before his panel on podcasting as a tool for advocacy. After that, stay tuned for a retrospective with Joe and I - as we talk about some of our favorite panels, the most interesting trends and topics, where we found the best swag and our thoughts on the conference.

We've had an absolute blast producing this season of Tech Policy Grind! We're wrapping up with one more show after this before we break for the summer - and we'd love to hear from our listeners before we come back better than ever. You can always reach out to us on twitter, but if you really want to make a difference, please consider leaving a review on iTunes. All right - that's it for intro - now please enjoy my conversation with Javier Pallero and a retrospective on the conference with Joe Jerome at Rightscon 2018.

The Europeans are coming! Hi everyone, welcome to Tech Policy Grind, a show by and about young professionals in the tech law and policy space - today we're joined by Bijan Madhani - fellow foundry member at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, Senior policy counsel at CCIA - the Computer & Communications Industry Association - to talk about the General Data Protection Regulations - the new set of sweeping and far-reaching privacy regulations coming online in Europe this week, on May 25th. Should small businesses be concerned? Is the GDPR really Thanos - and if so, does that make the right to be forgotten the Time Stone? We cover these crucial issues and more - right here on Tech Policy Grind

Joining us today:

Bijan Madhani is Senior Policy Counsel at the Computer & Communications Industry Association. He concentrates primarily on privacy and surveillance policy,Mahdani-B cybersecurity, and Internet governance issues relating to free expression and open networks. Bijan previously focused on these matters as a law clerk with Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Judiciary Committee office, PBS, and the Department of Justice. He also recently spent time as counsel with the Food and Drug Administration, prior to which he worked as a Legal Fellow with CCIA.

After much delay, a fully-staffed podcast crew talks to Anisha Mangalick about her path from science into law and then everyone tries to explain the basics of blockchain to Joe. Anisha is currently an associate corporate counsel at Zendesk. You can learn more about her here:  https://www.anishamangalick.com/

We live! Okay, yes, absolutely, we have been on a bit of a hiatus for the past few weeks - some of those good old fashioned life events kept cropping up. Turns out, 2018 is a busy, exciting year! Go figure! Today, we're thrilled to bring you an episode with the current president of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, Patrick Kyhos!

Patrick Kyhos is an information security and privacy attorney. His work focuses on transparency, data security, privacy, and national security.

Previously, he worked as a political staffer, focusing on security and data privacy policy. He began his career in banking and worked in finance for two years after graduating from college.

Hey, listeners, it’s time for another episode of Tech Policy Grind! I think you’re going to really like this one, and it marks the first in a multi-part series we’ll be doing on bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrencies – and how they’re barreling into the world of internet law and policy.

Today, Joe and I had the opportunity to sit down and talk tech with Inayat Chaudhry. Inayat is a fellow with the foundry, and is currently pursuing her LL.M at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, taking what has to be the coolest courseload for well, probably anyone that’s listening to this show. Join us as we talk about her LL.M experience, the value of internships at Wikimedia and the EFF, fundamentals of blockchain technology, and we all share our inner love for – or at least fascination with - cryptokitties.

As always, if you like the show, please stick around till the end, maybe share the show with a friend if you can’t leave a quick review on iTunes. You can follow the show on twitter @TechPolicyGrind, we hope to see you there. For now, enjoy a nerdy dive into the blockchain rabbit hole with Joe Jerome, myself, Emory Roane, and Inayat Chaudhry.

 

Joining us today:

Inayat is an LL.M candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. Before this, she was a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) where she worked on copyright law, Internet of Things, and First Amendment issues. Before EFF, Inayat worked as a legal fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation where she focused on copyright law, trademark law, privacy law, and international law issues dealing with intellectual property. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

Hey! This is Emory, you’re listening to another episode of Tech Policy Grind a podcast from the Internet law and Policy Foundry – and this one coming up  - this one you’re listening to right now – I think it might just be my favorite episode we’ve recorded thus far. An absolutely fascinating discussion with two academic powerhouses – Kendra Albert and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. Joe will introduce Kendra and Elizabeth in just a moment, but Kendra is a technology lawyer, a fellow at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry and together with Elizabeth they recently published and have presented on their work on the Gig Econmy and the Digital Security Divide.

On today’s episode we’ll talk about that work, the issue of cyber security educational disparity in the gig economy, and what can be done about it – but we also talk about their experiences in the Ivy leagues, how an arts education carries over to law school, and the social and cultural elements of cyber security awareness. As always, if you like the show, please rate and review us on iTunes, and consider reaching out to us on Twitter at TechPolicyGrind! We’re always looking for feedback and new guests and topics for the show. So, I hope you enjoy this upcoming discussion as much as I did, with Joe Jerome, Kendra Albert and Elizabeth Anne Watkins.

 

Joining us today:

Kendra is a clinical instructional fellow at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, where they teach students how to practice law by working with pro bono clients. Previously, they were an associate at Zeitgeist Law PC, a boutique technology law firm in San Francisco, and a research associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Hey all you awesome ears, you’re listening to Tech Policy Grind the Internet Law and Policy Foundry podcast! This is Emory, and even though I’m conspicuously absent from this upcoming conversation, we have an amazing episode coming right up.

Pinal and Joe talk with Angel Diaz, 2017 fellow at the foundry and technology associate at Gunderson Dettmer, about his journey from majoring in English and Poetry at UC Berkeley, to working at Google, to advising clients on frontier legal tech issues. Stay tuned for a discussion on the enforceability of NDA’s, the finer points of Terms of Service (which I promise is more interesting than that sounds!), privacy and confidentiality, and more!

As always, if you like what we’re doing, please, it would be a huge help to the show to head to iTunes and leave a review, and you can always follow us on twitter @TechPolicyGrind. All right, so, with all that said, please, sit back and enjoy Pinal Shah, Joe Jerome and Angel Diaz on Tech Policy Grind:

 

 

Joining us today:

Ángel Díaz is a Technology Associate at Gunderson Dettmer, where he counsels technology start-ups and venture capital firms through the changing landscape of IP, privacy, and data security issues. His research and interests focus on the intersection between emerging technology and social justice, including the surveillance of minority communities, consumer protection for non-native English speakers, and discrimination in digital advertising.

Ángel received his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where he was Book Reviews and Essays Editor of the California Law Review, Annual Review Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and an extern for Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before law school, Angel worked in the legal department at Google.

Hey everyone, this is Emory, you’re listening to Tech Policy Grind – and if you’re just now tuning in, if you’re a new listener or just haven’t been paying much attention to your podcast feed this week, I’ve got great news! This is but one of five special bonus episode of Tech Policy Grind we’ve been releasing this week, of interviews and discussions Joe and I had at State of the Net 2018 – the largest internet policy conference in the country, hosted by our parent organization, the Internet Education Foundation. If you have been listening all week – we REALLY hope you’ve enjoyed this – it’s been exciting and a lot of fun to try something new with TPG, so if you liked what you heard this week, if you want to hear more like it, let us know! We’re still continually fishing for reviews on iTunes, but you can reach us on twitter @TechPolicyGrind and we’d really love to hear from you.

We’re wrapping up our week of bonus Tech Policy Grind episodes with a conservation Joe and I had with Dr. Betsy Cooper, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cyber-security. We talked about the most pressing issues facing cyber-security and had an extremely fun dive into a topic I had personally never thought about: cyber-security at the Olympics!

Keep it tuned right here for the whole interview, and from everyone here at Tech PolicyGrind, we hope you’ve enjoyed this week of bonus content! We’ll be back to the normal release schedule next week with a regularly scheduled episode of Tech Policy Grind next Monday, February 12th

Okay, so, with all that said, please, sit back and enjoy the last conversation of the day, with Dr. Betsy Cooper of Berkeley’s Center for Long Term Cybersecurity, at State of the Net 2018.

Welcome to day 4 of Tech Policy Grind's State of the Net 2018 coverage!

Today we’re thrilled to bring you a brief discussion Joe and I had with TechDirt’s own Mike Masnick! Joe and I are both huge fans of Mike’s writing, and if you aren’t already, you probably should be! CEO, founder and writer for the blog, Mike’s articles offer some of the best examples of tech journalism out there today. From net neutrality to artificial intelligence to surveillance and fake news – Mike has written about it all – and chances are, Joe and I mostly agree with him. Today we talked about his panel at State of the Net 2018, on the dangers of fake news, and, perhaps more importantly, the risks associated with “doing something” about the problem.

So, sit back, and be worried – but not hasty – and enjoy our discussion with Mike Masnick at State of the Net 2018

Hey Tech Policy Grind! Emory, back once more, to introduce a very internet policy episode of TPG, recorded while at State of the Net 2018 last week! On this two parter, we’ll hear from Commissioner Karen Charles Peterson and Dr. Rosyln Layton.

Commissioner Karen Charles Peterson is the Commissioner of the Department of Telecommunications and Cable for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Joe and I were thrilled to stream our conversation with Commissioner Charles Peterson live as we had it, last week at State of the Net 2018 – and we’re just as thrilled to be releasing it as a bonus episode of Tech Policy Grind, today! We talk about responsible municipal internet regulation, bridging the digital divide, and ways local governments are stepping up in response to the repeal of the Open Internet Order!

Coming up right afterwards is our discussion on net neutrality with Dr. Roslyn Layton, who comes down on decidedly different lines of reasoning than Commissioner Peterson. We want to thank both Commissioner Charles Peterson and Dr. Layton for joining us at State of the Net for a spirited discussion about some of the most pressing issues facing internet policy – the state of net neutrality and the digital divide. Keep it tuned right here for the rest of the week, as we’ve got more excellent interviews from State of the Net 2018, including discussions on Fake News with Tech Dirt’s Mike Masnik, and a survey of the Witches Brew of Cybersecurity with Dr. Betsy Cooper, Executive Director of Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity!

So! Sit back, and enjoy day three of our Bonus State of the Net 2018 episodes of Tech policy Grind with Commissioner Karen Charles Peterson.