After a ninety day review, the White House review group released its report on the challenges and opportunities of big data, and how it may affect individual privacy. There have been a lot of promises made about how big data will improve our lives, and there are absolutely some uses of big data that will have positive social effects. But big data raises very real privacy concerns, and we’re pleased that the White House has raised public awareness of these issues through its review process.
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Today I spoke at the latest congressional hearing on possible reforms to copyright law. The hearing topic was the rise of innovative business models, so I and the other three witnesses generally discussed the extensive degree of change and innovation in the marketplace for copyrighted works; my prepared statement urges Congress to focus on ensuring that the copyright regime promotes continued innovation in business models and technologies.
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In July, when the Department of Commerce (DOC) Internet Policy Task Force released its Green Paper, Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy, CDT welcomed its reasonably balanced discussion and its inclusion of several reform topics that are important to Internet users and innovators. In October, the Task Force issued a request for comments and announced plans for a series of multistakeholder meetings on some of the issues raised. This week we submitted our comments, focusing primarily on two critical issues: the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system and statutory damages reform.
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