Guidebook that the community developed over years in terms of what to do when multiple parties seek the same domain name. It is not like the trademark world where people can use apple as a trademark in one context and a Different Company can use apple in a totally different industry. Unfortunately on the internet only one person can have. Apple. The community faced with how to deal with the competing claims on these names. And what the community decided, and i mean all the businesses that are now seeking domain names along with the technical experts and Civil Society members that participate in this policy make process, decided you have two people making equal claims for a name, they need to work it out. At the end of the day the process they put in place to resolve that the end is an auction that can be conducted privately or conducted under the auspices of icann. That is been used. Has it been a great outcome . Its a great question to ask. If they feel the experience of dealing with
Will open it up to discussion at the end. Their books will be on sale at the end and they will be available for a picture and discussion. To start with my good friend doctor Jessica Stern and she has spent a career in counterterrorism and thinking about the threat that this nation and world faces with government physicians and academic ones and she is now a lecture at harvard university. One of Time Magazine theories innovative winners and is the author most recently of isis and thats a book she will talk about today. Bruce schneier is the security technology. His latest New York Times bestseller is data and goliath and in the house the collection of data. He is also a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Harvard law school and many of you probably know about that center and his work in technology and innovation and Gabriella Blum is a professor of humanitarian law at Harvard Law School where she focuses on international law, negotiation and the law of conflict and is also the facul
I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav
To hold corporations accountable. We will host a debate. Then to the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world. Russia, china, iran tunisia are trying to push an internet sovereignty, nationalism movement, that gives them the ability and permission to subvert it on their citizens, whether it is surveillance or propaganda, censorship. These are all on the rise. The United States is, quite sensibly, pushing down against that that we need a free and open internet. It turns out at the same time theyre doing these exact same things. Amy leading security and Privacy Research Bruce Schneier on his new book, data and goliath. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraqi Officials Say they are close to victory in an an iranianbacked offensive to reclaim the city of tikrit from the selfproclaimed islamic state. Iraqi forces and iranianbacked militias have reclaimed swaths of the city without the aid o
Negotiations, the law of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also the codirector of the hls brookings project on law and security and a member of the program on negotiations executive board. Benjamin wittes is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute and the editorinchief of law fair. And joining our that ares we have the jack n. And lillian r. Berkman professor of entrepreneurial legal studies and director of the Berkman Center for internet and society, and also professor jook Goldsmith Jack goldsmith, professor of law. I will hand it over to benjamin. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me, and thank you all for turning out. This is quite overwhelming. I want to gabby and i started out thinking we were writing a book about the governance of catastrophic risk, and rather to my surprise anyway though im not certain to gabbys we ended up writing a book that was as much a book of political theory as anything else which is odd for me because i actually had neve