May 1 Panel 1

Monte Frenkel Flipping the Script http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/jason-patric-gus-spawns-first-696707 Traditionally, the link between celebrities, privacy, and the first amendment follows a well-worn path—The media invades a famous person’s privacy, the famous person seeks…

April 17 Panel 3

Wei-Chen Hung http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/microsoft-to-stop-inspecting-private-emails-in-investigations/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/technology/microsofts-software-leak-case-raises-privacy-issues.html The issue arising here is the legitimacy of Microsoft’s investigation which accessed the Hotmail content of a user who was tracking in stolen Microsoft source code.…

April 3 Panel 5

Yali Hu http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=0 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/spying-reform-panel-the-world-is-not-the-nsas-playground/ N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden indicate that N.S.A. has been conducted surveillance on the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, a private company,…