Ongoing

InfoLaw Student Association

The InfoLaw Student Association is a gathering of individuals from the University and the surrounding community of interest who meet regularly to discuss various issues in information and telecommunication law and policy, and also act to promote a greater understanding of those issues within the Law School and the University. Our reading group meets every other week on the Law School campus; recent topics of discussion have included the Broadcast Flag and Net Neutrality legislative proposals.

More information on our activities can be found on our blog at www.ilistudents.org.

Global Network Initiative

On October 28, 2008, a diverse coalition of leading Internet companies, major human rights and free press organizations, investors and academics launched the Global Network Initiative to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies. CDT and Business for Social Responsibility co-facilitated an 18-month effort by these groups to craft the key documents underlying this effort. The documents provide guidance for companies, NGOs, investors, academics and others working together to resist efforts by governments that seek to enlist companies in acts of censorship and surveillance that violate international standards. The documents also provide specific implementation commitments and outline a framework for accountability and learning.

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Computers and Society Speaker Series at NYU

* All events are open to the public and held in room 109, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street

2009 Google Policy Fellow

Google is sponsoring students interested in technology policy to spend the summer at think tanks and public interest groups through a program called the Google Policy Fellowship. Now in its second year, the Google Policy Fellowship will be funding students at fifteen organizations http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/hosts.html doing great work on Internet policy in the U.S. and Canada. Applications are being accepted now through December 12. If you are interested in applying to the program, go to http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/index.html for more information. If you have any specific questions about the program, you can reach the Google Policy Fellowship program administrators at policyfellowship@google.com.