The Internet equips users (including advertisers) with veritable superpowers—the power to shape shift (change identities), teleport (intercept other users wherever they are), and mind read (exploit data about others’ preferences)—that threaten the civilization of the Web. These powers disrupt our usual human defenses against misinformation, manipulation, unwanted targeting, trespass (hacking), or untrusted speech. Homeland Security Project Fellow Steve Johnson recommends a framework for Internet regulation that bridles these superpowers so that cyber citizens can self-govern on the Internet as effectively as they do in the terrestrial world.

Paper: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/internet-superpowers

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On Thursday, April 7th, The Belfer Center’s Homeland Security Project will host Steve Johnson, Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Project, as part of its spring seminar series. The event will consist of a seminar involving Johnson hosted by Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security and Faculty Director of the Homeland Security Project.