Andrew Guzman quoted in San Jose Mercury News, March 21, 2013
“A conservative assumption is that we will see a rise in global temperature of 2 degrees Celsius in this century,” Guzman said. He said that type of rise in global temperature will kill hundreds of millions and “badly damage” billions of people. “Those numbers are alarming, but that is because we should be alarmed,” he said.
Jason Schultz quoted in National Public Radio, Planet Money blog, March 20, 2013
The ruling means “you can’t have the ghost of copyright following the object around and policing it,” said Jason Schultz, a law professor at UC Berkeley who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the student. When I talked to him yesterday, he told me the case has important implications for interpreting “first sale” doctrine in the digital world.
John Yoo quoted in McClatchy Newspapers, March 19, 2013
“I think President Obama has been as equally aggressive as President Bush, and, in fact, he has sometimes used the very same language to suggest that he would not obey congressional laws that intrude on his commander-in-chief power,” said Yoo…. “This is utterly hypocritical, both when compared to his campaign stances and the position of his supporters in Congress, who have suddenly discovered the virtues of silence.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in McClatchy Newspapers, March 18, 2013
Consumer protections for mobile payments aren’t really on policymakers’ agendas, said Chris Jay Hoofnagle…. “The FTC knows about these problems and it has written about them, but we’re very early in this process and these types of data transfers are not noticeable to the consumer, so one question is will the consumer ever object?” he said. “Going to mobile payments – unless rules are put in place – will be zero privacy,” he said.
Ian Haney-Lopez quoted in ProPublica, March 18, 2013
“I think that is incredibly important that people realize that today’s proponents of colorblindness pretend that they are the heirs to Thurgood Marshall and John Marshall Harlan,” he said. “But that is a lie. They are the heirs of Southern resistance to integration. And the colorblindness arguments that they use come directly from the Southern efforts to defeat Brown v. Board of Education.”
Christopher Hoofnagle interviewed by National Public Radio, Morning Edition, March 18, 2013
“After all, we are talking about transparency, and many of us exist in a kind of Disneyland of false belief that these systems are well-secured and impervious against wrong-doers.”
Christopher Hoofnagle writes for The Daily Californian, March 18, 2013
CalMail appeared to be one of those poorly performing campus services best handled by a vendor…. And many other schools have outsourced their information technology services to Google and Microsoft. But if we think about this more deeply, we might conclude the opposite: Communications and information services are so critical to academic freedom that trusting them with an outside vendor can be problematic.
Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover’s report cited in The New Yorker, March 18, 2013
The spread of such torture around the world is the subject of … “The Guantanamo Effect,” which is based on interviews with sixty-two former detainees, conducted by Laurel E. Fletcher, the director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, at Berkeley, and Eric Stover, the director of Berkeley’s Human Rights Center.
James Rule writes for The New York Times, March 18, 2013
As recent court decisions in the United States and Europe have shown, ordinary citizens have reason to be uncomfortable with Google’s version of “the mind of God” monitoring their whereabouts and Wi-Fi use. Worse, all around the world we now see the powers of the Internet mobilized as weapons in some especially nasty struggles: cyberwarfare, hacking and political repression.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, March 15, 2013
Conflicts over land confiscation reflect the pressures of rural-urban inequality, the considerable dependence of local governments on land sales for financial support, the close links in many communities between local officials and businesses, widespread corruption among officials, and the increasing level of anger over violations of villagers’ interests in communally-owned land.