ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz appeared in a segment on Nebraska-TV about the recent hack of the Colonial Pipeline and the state of cyber-security more generally. The full video is embedded below.

Just 10 days after issuing it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted their “pause” on the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Initially sparked by six reported cases of a rare blood clot, out of more than 6.8 million doses administered, the decision also came amid a pandemic that continues to infect 50,000 more Americans every day.

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ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss content moderation and “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The full episode is embedded below.

But rather than demonstrating that data portability and interoperability mandates would be easy to implement, analogies to the Telecom Act’s number portability requirement highlight how difficult they can be. As law professor Peter Swire of Georgia Tech University explained in a recent study of data portability mandates, regulators who rely on phone number portability as a model “may have an unrealistically positive view about how easy and beneficial” these regulations are.

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ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined the Technology Policy Institute’s Two Think Minimum podcast on an episode titled “Gus Hurwitz on the Rural Digital Divide and Platforms.” The full episode can be played below.

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast on an episode titled “Well, Have You Ever Seen Dr. Octopus and Sen. Klobuchar Together?” The full episode can be played below.

https://www.steptoe.com/podcasts/TheCyberlawPodcast-348.mp3

I was having a conversation recently with a fellow denizen of rural America, discussing how to create opportunities for academics studying the digital divide to get on-the-ground experience with the realities of rural telecommunications. He recounted a story from a telecom policy event in Washington, D.C., from not long ago. The story featured a couple of well-known participants in federal telecom policy as they were talking about how to close the rural digital divide. The punchline of the story was loud speculation from someone in attendance that neither of these bloviating telecom experts had likely ever set foot in a rural town.

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ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined the Legal Talk Today podcast on an episode titled “Why So Many Robocalls? Why?!” The full episode can be played below.

If you’re getting persistent calls from seemingly familiar phone numbers at all hours, you’re not alone. Learn why efforts at regulation have so far been inadequate.

The subject of robocalls went before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, as the court heard arguments in a case that asks whether the computer programs Facebook uses to send text messages are illegal under a 1991 law.

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