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For election hackers, a new and more dangerous tool
November 2018
"The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the United States and Europe are now global.
FSI scholars join high-level commission on democracy in the digital age
October 2018
The Kofi Annan Foundation has tapped four Stanford scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) to help advance one of its top priorities: to shed light on the rapidly...
Protecting democracy from online disinformation requires better algorithms, not censorship
August 2017
*/ "New laws in democratic countries that force social media platforms to remove disinformation will encourage autocratic countries to do the same, with devastating effects on human rights," writes...
Artificial intelligence expert joins CDDRL’s ranks
June 2017
CDDRL is pleased to announce that Jerry Kaplan, who teaches social and economic impact of artificial intelligence in the Stanford computer science department, has been appointed to the position of...
Hub for global digital policy launches at Stanford
June 2017
The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University announced today that it has launched the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi). GDPi’s mission is to help...
Breathtakingly Irresponsible
May 2017
Watch the video of Larry Diamond analyzing the latest intelligence sharing events for Democracy Now.
Former FBI director targets cybercrimes
November 2013
Robert Mueller said terrorism is still the FBI's top priority. But the agency needs to find new ways of fighting cybercrimes, which he calls "the threat of the future."
Former FBI director to bolster security research at Stanford
November 2013
Robert Mueller, the FBI's chief for the past 12 years, will spend the current academic year as a consulting professor and the Arthur and Frank Payne Distinguished Lecturer.
McLaughlin speaks on the expansion of the internet and its risks
October 2011
Andrew McLaughlin, a lecturer at the Stanford Law School and the executive director of the Creative Commons delivered the inaugural lecture for the fall season of the Liberation Technology Seminar...
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Nathaniel Persily Co-director, Cyber Policy Center, Senior Fellow Professor, Law, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science, Professor, by courtesy, Communication 
Toomas Hendrik Ilves Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, GDPi Fellow, Stanford Cyber Initiative Fellow 
