John Palfrey
John Palfrey
John Palfreyis a leading American educator, scholar, and law professor. He is a notable authority on the legal aspects of emerging media, and he is an advocate for Internet freedom, including increased online transparency and accountability as well as child safety. He was selected to be the Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2012. He has been an important figure at Harvard Law School and served as executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet &...
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Where it is going to be tricky is in the gray area. That's where we will earn our keep. Where it's something unethical, but maybe not illegal, we want to put companies on notice that we're going to shine a light on them.
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Massachusetts is the canary in the mine on this issue. If Massachusetts gets this right, others will follow.
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It's putting the providers of this software on notice that we're going to be paying attention.
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We think there's enormous value ... in giving consumers more control and giving them more information before they do something that could be damaging to their computers. The longer-term goal is we hope that these reports ... will lead the providers of applications to operate more openly and more transparently.