Open Law Lab
This answer is never going to be totally clearcut (hello, Law!), but there is one important test you have to pass, in order to sue the government for…
Turkey – Google Soap Opera: Taxes + Freedom of Expression When the strained relationship between Google + the Turkish government has been discussed in the Western press, most…
Chilling effects of government surveillance on individuals In the wake of reports of NYPD surveillance of Muslim communities along the East Coast, Frank Askin in New Jersey asks…
I am reading “In the Plex”, the book on Google’s development + special brand of ideological Kool-aid, by Steven Levy. An interviewee pointed out that we the citizenry…
Nerd Diplomacy: Google’s Foreign Policy In early 2010, when Google had decided to pull out of the China market, there was a brief window of discourse in which…
AP’s Probe Into NYPD Intelligence Operations This is the collection of all the Associated Press’ stories about NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims all along the Eastern Seaboard. They find…
I am fumbling around, trying to figure out the Internet in Turkey. It has quite the reputation, having blocked YouTube on-and-off for several years, along with WordPress, Blogger,…
An article from Ben Paynter at Good Magazine about Gary Well’s work in the Austin Police Department to use a computer program to improve crime witnesses’ identification of…
There is a team putting together a new platform in which people who work on human trafficking can link up, join forces, and share resources. Interested? Go look…
There are a host of apps (some free, some paid) for studying law. Most are oriented towards preparing for law bar exams, but they can be useful more…
A 2 page comic on Drones + Privacy.
Apps to Stop Human Trafficking — from NetHope & USAID challenge last summer (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Sarkissian Mason, a digital innovation agency, worked with the non-profit Pathways to Housing, to make a Virtual Homeless interactive experience for people walking down the street in New…
Chicago-Kent Law School, out of its Center for Access to Justice & Technology, has started publishing A2J — Access to Justice apps. A2J Author is a platform that…
SlaveFree is an app that lets you scan any product in a store, to see if slave labor likely was used in its production. Slavery Footprint is an…
Out of USC, a September 2011 report “Human Trafficking Online” by Mark Latonero on the role of online social networks in human trafficking. It shows the darker side of…
The USC Annenberg Center on Communication is convening actors who are working to use technology to address human trafficking. Some of the projects: From the Center on Communication…
The New York State Bar Association has released a mobile app for lawyers, judges, and other legal practitioners — for quicker advice on whether their action is ‘Ethical…
Ethan Zuckerman writes that one way to better protect human rights’ activists content online is by making sure their content is on the same platform/site as the Cute…
What countries in the world are best at providing your online data from governments and from companies? I’m trying to find an excellent map showing where the best…
some Intellectual Property Basics, Terry Fisher at ILaw
How the Stop Online Privacy Act works — and why you should tell your Senator to oppose it.
How cookies work online, from visual.ly
A study from Aleecia McDonald and Lorrie Cranor, from Carnegie Mellon, explaining how people can easily get confused about who is tracking them online, what information is…
Where all the Trackers Know Your Name Jonathan Mayer, at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, explains how online trackers get sent personally identifiable information…
An excellent visualization of a legal process! How Laws are Made – from Design for America
How can you keep users aware of the privacy choices of their browsing? There’s a new crop of visual tools that let the Internet-user see who is…
Mitchell Baker of Mozilla speaks at the Access conference, 10/26/2011 in SF, on Silicon Valley and Human Rights
A new social network has come out of Florida, with mom Natasha Dedis at its helm, to let users choose what ads are shown on their network, and…
As designers increasingly take on social problems abroad as thier own wicked problems to design solutions for, the same questions that have been troubling development specialists for the…
Arvind Narayanan used the example of LiveJournal to scout out some features which could be built into social networks to allow greater control over sharing and privacy. First:…
Many cities are using “311 Apps” on mobile devices or on Facebook to let citizens report basic city problems — potholes, graffiti, etc — to their local representatives.…
More ideas for using tech to improve human rights of political detainees… This is one of my ideas, to create an easy software platform to make ‘human rights…
A very instructive & fun cartoon flow chart on illegal immigration. More legal information design, for clarity & playfulness! From Terry Colon, published in Reason Magazine.
California Common Sense is a new Palo Alto-based non-profit that is trying to gather together all of the data about the state’s government, and then process it into…
Making Policy Public brings designers, advocates and policy makers together to produce clear visions of how government, law, and policy work. This PDF provides immigrants with clear…
One of my submissions for Amnesty Intl/OpenIdeo’s call for ideas on – How Can Technology help people working to uphold human rights of in the face of unlawful…
Swedish Development Agency: Internet & Democratic Change The conference will happen on October 26, 2011 — and will be broadcast over the Internet. The topic is net activism,…
