Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2012

Updating Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property

Richard Adler

March 2012

Aspen Institute

Abstract

Given the current growth and importance of the Internet, the report of the 2011 Aspen Institute Conference on Communications Policy titled Updating Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property, highlights the elements that will allow for greater use of broadband as the common medium: security, privacy and intellectual property regulation. Written by rapporteur Richard Adler, the report explores a range of threats that plague the use of today’s communications media and provides a series of recommendations which aim to ensure that users’ communications are secure, private and protected.