Architecture Is Policy: The Legal and Social Impact of Technical Design Decisions

Over on the CUPS blog I wrote up a summery of the EFF board panel on the legal and social impact of technical design decisions.

Abstract:

Technology design can maximize or decimate our basic rights to free speech, privacy, property ownership, and creative thought.  Board members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discuss some good and bad design decisions through the years and the societal impact of those decisions.