Sandy Rosenthal is an American civic activist and founder of Levees.Org, an organization created in October 2005 to educate the American public about the cause of the levee failures and catastrophic flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.  In the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in U.S. history, Words Whispered in Water tells the story of one woman’s fight―against all odds―to expose a mammoth federal agency―and win. It’s a horror story, a mystery, and David and Goliath story all in one. In 2005, the entire world watched as a major U.S. city was nearly wiped off the map. The levees ruptured and New Orleans drowned. But while newscasters attributed the New Orleans flood to “natural catastrophes” and other types of disasters, citizen investigator Sandy Rosenthal set out to expose the true culprit and compel the media and government to tell the truth. This is her story. When the protective steel flood-walls broke, the Army Corps of Engineers―with cooperation from big media―turned the blame on natural types of disasters. In the chaotic aftermath, Rosenthal uncovers the U.S. corruption, and big media at the root. Follow this New Orleans hero as she exposes the federal agency’s egregious design errors and eventually changes the narrative surrounding the New Orleans flood. In this engaging and revealing tale of man versus nature and man versus man, Words Whispered in Water proves that the power of a single individual is alive and well.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

An intriguing and accessible nonfiction graphic novel about the role that wealth and influence play in American democracy.Despite our immense political divisions, Americans are nearly united in our belief that something is wrong with our government: It works for the wealthy and powerful, but not for anyone else. Unrig exposes the twisted roots of our broken democracy and highlights the heroic efforts of those "Unrigging" the system to return power to We the People.This stirring nonfiction graphic novel by democracy reform leader Daniel G. Newman and artist George O’Connor takes readers behind the scenes—from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. Unrig also highlights surprising solutions that limit the influence of big money and redraw the lines of political power.If you're overwhelmed by negative news and despairing about the direction of our country, Unrig is a tonic that will restore your faith and reveal the path forward to fix our broken democracy.Daniel G. Newman is a national expert on government accountability and money in politics. He is president and co-founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes transparency and political reform. Newman has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including CNN, CBS, MSNBC, FOX Business News, and NPR. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As with past years, we conclude 2019 with our annual Heroes and Zeros show with our good friends Brenda Christensen and Dan Tynan.Except this year, we are covering Heroes and Zeros both for 2019 and the decade as a whole.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Josh Levin is the national editor at Slate and the host of the sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. He previously worked at the Washington City Paper and has written for Sports Illustrated, the Atlantic, GQ, and Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine. He is a graduate of Brown University. The Daily Beast calls his book, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (Little, Brown and Company), "one of the most outlandish true crime capers of the season. On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. And that was just the beginning: Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. A desperately ill teacher, a combat-traumatized Marine, an elderly woman hungry for companionship— after Taylor came into their lives, all three ended up dead under suspicious circumstances. But nobody- not the journalists who touted her story, not the police, and not presidential candidate Ronald Reagan- seemed to care about anything but her welfare thievery. Part social history, part true-crime investigation, Josh Levin's mesmerizing book, the product of six years of reporting and research, is a fascinating account of American racism, and an exposé of the "welfare queen" myth, one that fueled political debates that reverberate to this day.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Philip Mudd, the ex-deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and FBI's National Security Branch, appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and NPR. He is the current director of enterprise risk at SouthernSun asset management in Memphis, Tennessee.Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World is a bold account of one of the most controversial and haunting initiatives in American history, Black Site tells the full story of the post-9/11 counterterrorism world at the CIA.When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations more powerfully felt than at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Almost overnight, the intelligence organization evolved into a warfighting intelligence service, constructing what was known internally as “the Program”: a web of top-secret detention facilities intended to help prevent future attacks on American soil and around the world. With Black Site, former deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center Philip Mudd presents a full, never-before-told story of this now-controversial program, directly addressing how far America went to pursue al-Qa’ida and prevent another catastrophe.Heated debates about torture were later ignited in 2014 after the US Senate published a report of the Program, detailing the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” to draw information from detainees. The report, Mudd posits, did not fully address key questions: How did the officials actually come to their decisions? What happened at the detention facilities―known as “Black Sites”―on a day-to-day basis? What did they look like? How were prisoners transported there? And how did the officers feel about what they were doing?Black Site seeks answers to these questions and more, first by examining pre-9/11 Langley, when the CIA was tasked with collecting, disseminating, and analyzing information related to overseas events. Mudd argues that September 12, 2001, marked an operational revolution, as officials suddenly felt the weight of protecting a nation from a second wave of attacks inside the United States. Re-creating the incredibly tense atmosphere of the time, Mudd reveals that many officials felt an unshakable personal responsibility to thwart another attack.Based on interviews from dozens of officials―many of whom have never spoken out before― Black Site illuminates how the Agency quickly stepped into the process of organizing a full-blown interrogation program. Mudd offers a deeper understanding of how the enhanced interrogation techniques were developed and how intelligence professionals prepared to talk to the world’s most hardened terrorists. With careful detail, he takes us through the process of each legally approved technique, including waterboarding.As compelling as it is revelatory, Black Site shows us the tragedy and triumph of the CIA during its most difficult days.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alissa Quart is the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of four previous acclaimed books, Branded, Republic of Outsiders, Hothouse Kids and the poetry book Monetized. She writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nationand The New York Review of Books. She has won the Columbia Journalism School’s 2018 Alumni Award and the LA Press Club Award for Commentary, was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a National Magazine Award. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco) is her most recent book. Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, examines the lives of many middle-class Americans who can now barely afford to raise children. Through gripping firsthand storytelling, Quart shows how our country has failed its families. Her subjects—from professors to lawyers to caregivers to nurses—have been wrung out by a system that doesn’t support them, and enriches only a tiny elite. Squeezed is an eye-opening page-turner. Powerfully argued, deeply reported, and ultimately hopeful, it casts a bright, clarifying light on families struggling to thrive in an economy that holds too few options.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Miriam Pawel is the author of In The Browns of California, journalist, and scholar. Miriam weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. The magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos, many published for the first time.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CLBR presents its annual year-end Heroes and Zeros episode as guests Brenda Christensen, Denise Howell and Dan Tynan highlight those doing wonderful things on the internet and those deserving a cyber lump of coal. Plus, Bennet announces sadly, it most likely will be our last live broadcast as I have decided its time to move on.  Officially, he is taking a break for a few months before finally deciding whether to continue with the show for a ninth season.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Beth Macy is the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books Truevine and Factory Man. Based in Roanoke, Virginia for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Little, Brown and Company) is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it. In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A former reporter for the Charlotte Observer, Pam Kelley has won honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Features Journalism. She contributed to a subprime mortgage exposé that was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She is the author of Money Rock: A Family’s Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South (The New Press). Meet Money Rock. He’s young. He’s charismatic. He’s generous, often to a fault. He’s one of Charlotte’s most successful cocaine dealers, and that’s what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history—by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic—of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies—racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration—help shape individual destinies. Money Rock is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Michael Beschloss is the author of nine books on presidential history, including, most recently, the New York Times bestsellers Presidential Courage and The Conquerors, as well as two volumes on Lyndon Johnson’s White House tapes.  He was also editor of the number-one global bestseller Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. He is the NBC News Presidential Historian and a PBS NewsHour contributor and has received an Emmy and six honorary degrees. Presidents of War (Crown) is a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gillespie explains that his book I have been writing about the impact of platforms and the digital transformation for fifteen years,” said Gillespie. “This book explains how content moderation works: how the platforms think of their responsibilities, the way they create and articulate the rules, the labor behind the scenes, and recent efforts to automate it all.” Based on interviews with content moderators, creators, and consumers, this book contributes to the current debates about the public responsibilities of platforms, be it about harassment, data privacy, or political propaganda. Gillespie argues that content moderation still receives too little public scrutiny. How and why platforms moderate can shape societal norms and alter the contours of public discourse, cultural production, and the fabric of society.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gaurav is Free Press’ policy counsel and works alongside the policy team on topics ranging from internet freedom issues like Net Neutrality and media ownership to consumer privacy and government surveillance. Gaurav’s human rights and civil liberties work has taken him from Capitol Hill to Uganda, India and Liberia. Before joining Free Press, he worked at the Government Accountability Project protecting the rights of national security whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, and prior to that as a legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. He earned both his B.A. in international affairs and his J.D. from the George Washington University. Outside of work he can be found getting some fresh air riding his bike to and from one of D.C.’s many roof decks.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's CyberLaw and Business Report's annual Cyber Thanksgiving Special and for the 7th year, we celebrate the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with a special show featuring a guest panel discussing websites/apps they are grateful for, recommendations for Giving Tuesday and maybe even share what they will be cooking for Thanksgiving. Open source evangelist and troubadour Pete Kronowitt and Benét Wilson, founder and sole proprietor of Aviation Queen LLC, return to join Bennet on what they are thankful for.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our 2018 Miami Book Fair series with Obama National Security Council Alum Rumana Ahmed who is one of eighteen former Obama administration contributors to “West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House“. Rumana Ahmed interned in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence before becoming a full-time staffer. She then was a liaison to Muslim American and other communities in the Office of Public Engagement, where she also worked on highlighting community-based efforts to address issues like gun violence. Later, as Senior Advisor in the Office for Global Engagement and Strategic Communications in the National Security Council, she worked on advancing relations with Cuba and Laos. A Bangladeshi-American and Muslim who wore a hijab since she was twelve, Rumana was the only (and possibly the first) hijab-wearing staffer in the West Wing.  She played a key role in President Obama’s visit and speech at a Baltimore mosque in response to anti-Muslim hate crimes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

James Miller is a professor of politics and liberal studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche; The Passion of Michel Foucault; Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977; and Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. He is the author of Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Today, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work?James Miller offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished―and vexed―ideal.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sarah Kendzior is best known for her reporting on St. Louis, her coverage of the 2016 election, and her academic research on authoritarian states. She is currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail and she was named by Foreign Policy as one of the “100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events.” Her reporting has been featured in many publications, including Politico, Slate, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, TeenVogue, and The New York Times. The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America (Flatiron Books) is her most recent book. Kirkus writes it is,"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." A clear-eyed account of the realities of life in America’s overlooked heartland, The View from Flyover Country is a piercing critique of the labor exploitation, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat. The View from Flyover Country is necessary reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to fix its problems is to first discuss them with honesty and compassion.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We continue our 2018 Miami Book Fair series with lawyer turned acclaimed author Ben Fountain and his new book, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution“.  Fountain argues that the United States is in the middle of an existential crisis akin to the Civil War or the Great Depression that will require a “burning” of the old order for a new America to emerge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

At CLBR, we are proud of our record promoting press freedom with guests such as Reporters Without Borders to discuss global press freedom. For the episode on Raif Badawi, we prepared a special backgrounder on human rights in Saudi Arabia. Because of this, CLBR strongly condemns the apparent abduction, torture and murder of  Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Turkey. We also are proud of our record of promoting human rights around the world from China, to Mexico and Saudi Arabia.  This includes a 2016 interview with Human Rights Watch’s Kristine Beckerle on Social Media and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia and an interview earlier this year with Brandon Silver of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights on the campaign to free jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley launches our annual coverage of the 2018 Miami Book Fair series with radio host and political commentator Bill Press. He talks about Trump and a life in the crossfire as he discusses his books, TRUMP MUST GO: The Top 100 Reasons to Dump Trump (and One to Keep Him) and From the Left:  Life in the Crossfire. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bill Press is host of The Bill Press Show, simulcast on Free Speech TV. He is the former co-host of MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press and CNN’s Crossfireand The Spin Room. Press is the author of several books including The Obama Hate Machine and Trump Must Go: The Top 100 Reasons to Dump Trump (and One to Keep Him). His memoir, From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire (Thomas Dunne Books), has been named a Washington Post bestseller. The name Bill Press is synonymous with honest journalism, intelligent commentary, and progressive politics. But based on where he came from, it's a wonder he didn't end up a Trump voter. He grew up in a blue-collar family in a small town in Delaware south of the Mason-Dixon line, where segregation was the rule. So what went right for him that he swerved so far to the left? In From the Left, Press shows this gradual transformation, starting with two years of studies in Europe and a providential escape to California. From Sacramento he made his way to Southern California television and talk radio as a political commentator and liberal talk show host. Jumping to Washington and national cable TV, Press hosted Crossfire and The Spin Room on CNN, and Buchanan and Press on MSNBC. If you're already on the left, you'll cheer a fellow traveler. If not yet there, you soon will be. In Trump Must Go: The Top 100 Reasons to Dump Trump (and One to Keep Him) (Macmillan) TV and radio host Bill Press offers 100 reasons why Trump needs to be removed from office, whether by impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or the ballot box. Beginning with the man himself and moving through Trump’s executive action damage, Press covers Trump’s debasement of the United States political system and destruction of the Republican Party. In a political climate where the world has learned to expect the unexpected, Press offers readers a twist: one reason not to ditch Donald Trump.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies” and “God’s witness to corporate welfare,” Greg founded Good Jobs First in 1998 upon winning the Public Interest Pioneer Award. He has been training and consulting for state and local governments, associations of public officials, labor-management committees, unions, community groups, tax and budget watchdogs, environmentalists, and smart growth advocates more than 30 years.Greg backed into subsidy reform accidentally, while creating a national consulting practice against plant closings from Chicago from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. He is associate producer of the 1984 PBS documentary The Last Pullman Car and consulted for state agencies in Illinois, New York, and Washington State. His 1986 Early Warning Manual Against Plant Closings (upon which he trained all 50 states’ Dislocated Worker Units under contract to the U.S. Department of Labor) and his 1989 study “Intervening With Aging Owners to Save Industrial Jobs” (the first study to quantify the risk of job loss due to a lack of succession planning) set precedents that guided many public agencies and non-profits.Numerous plant closings he worked on involved abuse of economic development subsidies; factories that had received past incentives were now being shuttered. Usually, the fine print revealed that such abuses were technically legal; those revelations lead to public outrage and the enactment of clawbacks and other safeguards to prevent future waste. Sometimes there was a basis for legal challenge: in 1987, Greg wrote a study that triggered the City of Duluth’s successful lawsuit against Triangle Corporation; the nationally-reported verdict arrested the closure of that city’s largest factory, Diamond Tool, based on an Industrial Revenue Bond contract. Between 1990 and 1992, he assisted the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers in Elkhart, Indiana in their multiple-abuse lawsuit against American Home Products that settled for $24 million on the eve of trial.Collecting the reforms prompted by these revelations (clawbacks, disclosure, job quality standards, etc.), Greg wrote No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable in 1994. It was lauded by the International Economic Development Council as “very impressive research” and reviewed by the National Conference of State Legislatures a “famous polemic that contends that subsidies for economic development are mere corporate giveaways, and that calls for greater accountability and public restraint.”Founding Good Jobs First in Washington, DC in 1998, partnering with the Fiscal Policy Institute to launch Good Jobs New York in 2000, and welcoming the Corporate Research Project in 2001, Greg has built a full-service resource center for constituency-based organizations and public officials seeking to reform economic development. Since its first report in 1999, Good Jobs First has issued more than 100 studies, setting a long string of influential research precedents about economic development subsidies.Good Jobs First’s 50-states-plus-DC “report card” studies, such as “Show Us the Subsidized Jobs,” have made it de facto the arbiter of best state and local practice in transparency (disclosing deal-specific costs and benefits online). It is also the go-to source on best practices for job creation and job quality standards, and for enforcement including “clawbacks,” or recapture safeguards. Led by research director Phil Mattera, Good Jobs First research analysts Leigh McIlvaine, Tommy Cafcas and Kasia Tarczynska monitor subsidy news in all 50 states and provide front-line technical assistance.In response to GJF’s 2003 study, A Better Deal for Illinois, that state enacted the nation’s best subsidy disclosure system. In 2005, New York City enacted the best local disclosure ordinance in the nation (enhanced in 2010) after repeated agitations by Good Jobs New York’s Bettina Damiani with the NYC Industrial Development Agency.Greg’s 2005 book The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) was widely reviewed by daily newspapers, specialty tax and development publications, C-Span’s Book TV, The New York Review of Books, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Business Week called it a “powerful compendium of corporate tax dodging in the U.S.” and State Tax Notes wrote: “meticulously documented …scrupulously accurate …evocative storytelling…”He has book chapters in Building Health Communities: A Guide to Community Economic Development for Advocates, Lawyers, and Policymakers (American Bar Association, 2009) and Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis (MIT Press, 2009).Greg summarizes the job-creation benefits of smart growth for working families in this article in Urban Habitat’s Race, Poverty and the Environment entitled “Public Transit and Urban Density Create More Good Jobs.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jonathan Casey is Director of Archives and the Edward Jones Research Center at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo. He has been with the Museum and Memorial since April 2001. Casey was integral to the planning, developing and opening the organization’s massive expansion, which featured significantly enhanced exhibition space and a new research center that opened in 2006. He manages the Museum and Memorial’s two-dimensional collection of approximately 100,000 items and the Edward Jones Research Center library of approximately 10,000 titles. Casey has delivered numerous programs at the Museum and Memorial and in other venues across the world. He has traveled to WWI sites in Italy and Bosnia-Herzegovina, including visiting the site of the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on the 100th anniversary of the event in 2014. The Virginia native graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., with a bachelor’s degree in history and from the University of Kansas with a master’s degree in Museum Studies. He and his family reside in Kansas City, Mo.National WWI Museum and MemorialSoon after World War I ended, Kansas City leaders formed the Liberty Memorial Association (LMA) to create a lasting monument to the men and women who had served in the war. In 1919, the LMA and citizens of Kansas City raised more than $2.5 million in just 10 days. The equivalent of roughly $34 million today, this staggering accomplishment reflected the passion of public sentiment for the Great War that had dramatically changed the world.In 2004, the Museum and Memorial was designated by Congress as the nation’s official World War I Museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art museum and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the Liberty Memorial.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Matthew Schaefer, a Partner at the law firm Brann Isaacson, has focused for nearly 20 years on state tax matters and contested proceedings before courts and administrative tribunals.  He was co-counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court for the Respondents in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., 135 S.Ct. 2080 (2018) and for the Petitioner in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl, 135 S.Ct. 1124 (2015).  Matthew advises numerous e-commerce vendors, multi-channel merchants, and trade associations, and has represented the challengers in nearly every leading court case testing the constitutionality of state “economic presence” laws that impose burdensome tax and regulatory obligations on remote sellers.Matt is a co-author of ‘Eyes on eCom Law,’ a blog that reports on legal developments of interest to direct marketers and online sellers.Brann Isaacson is unique among its peers—a boutique law firm grounded in Maine that represents over 100 large and small online and multichannel companies across the country. The firm is general counsel to L.L. Bean, one of the most prominent and admired retailers in the industry. Today, we advise many of the companies in the Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide, as well as many small companies that hope someday to be included in that list.Brann Isaacson is based in Lewiston, Maine which is approx. 40 miles north of Portland and 135 miles north of Boston.  It was in Lewiston where Muhammad Ali had his first title defense, knocking out Sonny Liston in the infamous phantom knockout.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In his most recent government role as the nation’s top cyber diplomat, Mr. Painter coordinated and led the United States’ diplomatic efforts to advance an open, inter operable, secure and reliable Internet and information infrastructure and advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of State on these emerging issues. The pioneering office that Mr. Painter established — the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues —was the first high-level position and office dedicated to advancing the diplomatic aspects cyber issues ranging from national security to human rights matters anywhere in the world. Today more than 25 countries have created similar positions. In this role, Mr. Painter worked closely with the White House, other agencies, the private sector and civil society to create and implement US international cyberspace policies. These cross-cutting issues include promoting norms of responsible state behavior and cyber stability, preventing cyber conflict, enhancing deterrence, advancing cybersecurity, fighting cybercrime, promoting multi-stakeholder Internet governance and advancing Internet freedom. Among many other things, Mr. Painter was instrumental in negotiating a landmark agreement regarding the theft of intellectual property with China, negotiating a comprehensive cyber cooperation agreement with India, using diplomatic and other tools to combat high-profile cyber attacks and intrusions, and launching first of their kind “whole of government” cyber dialogues and capacity building programs with dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. He and his team also spearheaded the promotion of an international framework of cyber stability that includes building a consensus around norms of acceptable behavior and getting agreement on transparency and confidence-building measures designed to reduce the risk of miscalculation that could inadvertently lead to cyber warfare.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cameron Kerry joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow in December 2013. In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Cameron Kerry is Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin, LLP in Boston and Washington, DC, and a Visiting Scholar the MIT Media Lab. His practice at Sidley Austin involves privacy, security, and international trade issues. Kerry served as General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues laying a new foundation for U.S. economic growth in a global marketplace. He continues to speak and write on these issues, particularly privacy and data security, intellectual property, and international trade.While Acting Secretary, Cameron Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to the President.  His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the President’s Cabinet at the same time.As General Counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads, and oversaw the work of more than 400 lawyers across these agencies.  He was a leader in the Obama Administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more 150 years.  As co-chair of the National Science Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, he spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World.   He then led the Administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging on privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union.  He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, which brings together agencies with expertise in the 21st Century digital economy.He also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency.  He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S./ China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.Before his appointment to the Obama Administration in 2009, Cameron Kerry practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington.  His practice covered a range of complex commercial litigation and regulation of telecommunications.  He tried cases involving significant environmental and scientific evidence issues and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School.Prior to joining Mintz Levin, he was an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering in Washington, D.C. and a law clerk to Senior Circuit Judge Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  During the 2004 presidential campaign, Cameron Kerry was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry. He has been deeply involved in electoral politics throughout his adult life. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School (1978), where he was winner of the school’s moot court competition and a law review editor. and a cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1972).Cameron Kerry also has been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life.  In 2004-04, he was a senior adviser and national surrogate in the U.S. Presidential campaign, traveling to 29 States and Israel.  He has served on the boards of non-profits involved in civic engagement and sports.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Senate will begin hearings on D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court immediately after Labor Day.  The nomination is mired in controversy after Republicans insisted in 2016 that it was improper to consider a nominee so close to an election and are now trying to push the nomination through without permitting a proper vetting of his record.The EFF’s Camille Fischer, Corynne McSherry and Shahid Buttar recently published “Questioning Kavanaugh About Digital Privacy and Net Neutrality.”Camille Fischer joins us to talk about the Kavanaugh nomination which the San Jose Mercury has called Kavanaugh’s nomination a “disaster for the technology industry and the users of tech products.”  See Is Judge Kavanaugh a “Disaster” For Tech?, Cyber Report.Now, with Michael Cohen’s guilty plea implicating President Trump and raising questions about the legitimacy of the Trump presidency, Democrats have found a new line of attack against the nomination.I have cancelled my meeting with Judge Kavanaugh. @realDonaldTrump, who is an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal matter, does not deserve the courtesy of a meeting with his nominee—purposely selected to protect, as we say in Hawaii, his own okole.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mark serves as senior product and privacy counsel to Fortune 500 and 100 companies. A zealous advocate of privacy by design, Mark counsels end-to-end privacy implementation in all aspects of product development and go-to-market strategies.A frequent lecturer and speaker on US / EU comparative privacy laws and GDPR compliance best practices and strategies, Mark currently serves as Chairman of the Internet and Privacy Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association (formerly, the State Bar of California). Mark has been counseling on global privacy laws since 2004 and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.Currently serving as embedded Senior Counsel at Autodesk, Inc., through Paragon Legal, acting as lead legal business partner for two business units, implementing privacy by design while helping build a new business and bring a new SaaS solution to market. Mark has advised companies around the world at all stages, from Fortune 100 to startups, on global privacy compliance, product development, and go-to-market strategies.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Uber has put the brakes on its experimental autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto following a deadly crash. Bennet Kelley welcomes Jim McPherson, a California attorney and self-driving car consultant who has criticized the industry for moving too fast to put untested technology on public roads, to talk about autonomous vehicles and the safety issues involved. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Jared Gordon, an attorney in the Business Practice Group of McCormick Barstow, LLP and Joshua de Larios-Heiman, CIPP/US,  the founder and managing director of Data Law, They discuss various issues in the California State Legislature including new privacy law, net neutrality and an email bill.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Amnesty International's latest report discusses what a lot of Twitter'sfemale users already know: the social network is toxic for women. The non-government organization says the platform fails to respect women's rights by not "investigating and responding to reports of violence and abuse in a transparent manner." By being inconsistent in the enforcement of policies and by failing to clarify what is and isn't acceptable on the platform, it's fostering a hostile environment. That forces women to self-censor and even to stay silent due to fear of receiving abusive messages, including rape and death threats. According to Amnesty, that makes the problem a human rights issue. Amnesty International technology and human rights researcher Azmina Dhrodia talks to Bennet Kelley framing Twitter's abuse problem towards women as a human rights issue in an effort to force the platform to enforce its policies consistently and in a transparent way.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley welcomes Peter Edelman, his law professor and aide to Bobby Kennedy, to talk about the 50th anniversary of his presidential campaign and assassination and what it means today. Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and poverty law and is faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

There were 800+ lawsuits last year over website accessibility.  Today on CLBR Bennet talks to Kathy Wahlbin and Heather Antoine to learn how to be compliant. Heather Antoine of the Antoine Law Group in Beverly Hills returns along with Kathy Wahlbin, Founder of Interactive Accessibility in Boston to discuss how the ADA applies to websites; the role of advocates for the disabled and the Justice Department in ensuring website accessibility; the Trump administration’s view of accessibility; and what are web accessibility guidelines and how you can make your website compliant?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Over the years, CLBR has tried to provide insight from a tech perspective on upcoming elections.  In 2014, when there was a vacancy in the Congressional District representing Silicon Beach we hosted a tech debate among the leading candidates.   In 2016, we had a discussion of Engine’s Presidential Candidate Scorecard (for which Trump received an “F”) and provided a preview of the Presidential and Senate Primary for California.This year we are focusing on one race and one candidate, in particular, as being representative of a much larger trend that is of interest to the cyber community (i) promotion of science, technology and STEM education; (ii) net neutrality, (iii) privacy and cybersecurity;  (iv) immigration and tolerance and (v) concerns over an increasing radicalization of the Republican Party in Washington and refusal to acts as a check on Trump.ca-25-jess-phoenix-for-congress-poster_large_fullsizeJess Phoenix represents a number of trends this election.  She is one of over 300 women running for the House (a record), is running in California which has been on the front lines of many of the battles; and is part of a wave of scientists running for Congress.  In addition, she is challenging an incumbent Republican in a district carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, making this district one of the many swing districts that will determine control of Congress.Her race has captured both local and national attention.  As a scientist, she is a strong proponent of Green Tech.  She is also a strong advocate of cybersecurity due to her husband’s work in the field.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Tyler Marandola is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He prosecutes and defends cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, unfair competition, and other commercial disputes. Tyler has experience in the areas of pharmaceutical and medical device patent litigation, as well as experience in transactional work and patent counseling and licensing, including within the biotech, mechanical, and telecommunication fields.Tyler’s recent experience includes defending clients against allegations of infringement under software-related patents, as well as litigating patent claims relating to medical treatments and genetic sequencing. In addition, he has litigated copyright and trademark cases in various jurisdictions and has experience in proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).Co-Author, GDPR And The Future of WHOIs Data, National Law Review (April 3, 2018).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What is often overlooked, however, is that the sharing economy is a platform driven economy and at the heart of it all is data.  Simon Fraser University Professor Katherine Reilly joins us to explain the issues arising from this new economic model both in North America and in the developing world.Professor Reilly is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work focuses on the impact of digital technologies on development, in particular, the impact of the platform economy in Latin America. Her work in this area includes Data, the Sharing Economy and Canadian Federal Regulation, Medium (Feb. 16, 2018);  The downside of Uber, Airbnb and the sharing economy, The Journal of Developing Societies (2017). Simon Fraser University has become Canada’s leading comprehensive university with vibrant campuses in British Columbia’s largest municipalities (Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey) and deep roots in partner communities throughout the province and around the world.  Its notable alumnus include Canadian hero Terry Fox and First Lady/First Mother Margaret Trudeau.  SFU is also the only non-American university to compete in the NCAA.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Raif Badawi is a 34-year old Saudi activist, blogger and creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals.  His writings called for greater religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia which is dominated by Wahhabi Islamic fundamentalists.  (See CLBR Backgrounder: Saudi Arabia.)  They include:Is Liberalism Against Religion?Liberalism provides all that is necessary for individual freedoms, as well as freedom of religion, without imposing upon the society the tutelage of a certain sect or tyrant.Religions, according to the concept of liberalism, are personal and special choices. A liberal country has no religion, which doesn’t mean it’s godless. It means it protects the rights of all the religions and nurtures all of them without distinction or upholding one over the others. It doesn’t apple-polish the majority’s religion over the minorities’.No to Building a Mosque in New York CityFinally, it’s clear to observers that our Muslims in Saudi Arabia disrespect the beliefs of others. We consider them apostates. Those who are Muslims but are not believers in the Hanbali school are seen, in a very limiting way, as aliens. Having this mentality in our society is destructive: How will we be able to build a human civilization with positive relations with the 7 billion people around the world when 5.5 billion of them don’t even believe in Islam?Badawi’s saga, however, demonstrates that the Saudi regime has no tolerance for religious tolerance.2008:   Badawi was detained on apostasy charges.  He was released prevented from leaving Saudi Arabia.2009:  Badawi and his wife’s bank accounts were frozen.2012:  Badawi was arrested on a charge of “insulting Islam through electronic channels” and cited for apostasy which carries an automatic death sentence.2013:  Badawi was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that “violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought” and his website shut down.2014:  Badawi’s sentence was increased to 1000 lashes, 10 years in prison, and a fine of 1 million riyals (equal to about $267,000), for “insulting Islam”.2015: Badawi received 50 lashes before hundreds of spectators in front of a mosque in Jeddah, the first in a total of 1,000 lashes to be administered over twenty weeks.  Further flogging was suspended due to Badawi’s health and an international backlash.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with  Adam Winkler, author of   We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. The book sheds light on one of the most successful, yet least known civil rights movements in American history. Like minorities and women, corporations too have fought to win equal rights under the Constitution—and today they have… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley holds a roundtable discussion on he Facebook Train Wreck and Fexit with Brenda Christensen and Dan Tynan. The Facebook / Data Analytica scandal has caused Facebook to lose nearly one-fifth of its value; has reignited the debate over internet privacy in the United States and sparked calls from some to abandon Facebook altogether (“Fexit”).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Darieth Chisolm, an Emmy Award-winning TV host and news anchor, author, life and business coach, who was devastated by the crime of cyber abuse and revenge porn after my life was threatened by a jealous ex-boyfriend. Darieth talks to us about 50 Shades of Silence, a global movement giving voice and dignity to victims of cyber harassment and online crimes. Our goal is to raise awareness to cyber stalking, cyber rape, cyber bullying and other online crimes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Fixing A Broken Campaign System From Dark Money to Online Ads as Bennet Kelley speaks with  Ann Ravel, the Former Chair Federal Elections Commission. In 2012, Ann Ravel was Chair of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission and joined us to talk about her idea to require disclosure of payments made to bloggers by political campaigns. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Melvin Goodman’s long career as a respected intelligence analyst at the CIA, specializing in US/Soviet relations, ended abruptly after twenty-four years. In 1990, Goodman resigned when he could no longer tolerate the corruption he witnessed at the highest levels of the Agency. In 1991 he went public, blowing the whistle on top-level officials and leading the opposition against the appointment of Robert Gates as CIA director. In the widely covered Senate hearings, Goodman charged that Gates and others had subverted “the process and the ethics of intelligence” by deliberately misinforming the White House about major world events and covert operations.In this breathtaking exposé, Goodman tells the whole story. Retracing his career with the Agency, he presents a rare insider’s account of the inner workings of America’s intelligence community, and the corruption, intimidation, and misinformation that lead to disastrous foreign policy decisions. An invaluable and historic look into one of the most secretive and influential branches of US government—and a wake-up call for the need to reform its practices.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cybercrime cost $600 billion in 2017.   What are the top threats and vulnerabilities for 2018?  Stan Stahl of Citadel Information Group returns to walk us through the threat landscape and discuss ways to build awareness about addressing cybersecurity. Dr. Stahl is a pioneer in the field of information security, having entered the field in 1980. Earlier in his career, he secured teleconferencing at the White House, databases inside Cheyenne Mountain and the communications network controlling our nuclear weapons arsenal. Dr. Stahl excels at helping his clients develop and implement information security management strategies consistent with their unique information security responsibilities, their business realities, and their cultural circumstances. He has that rare gift of being able to describe the complexities of information security in a way that makes sense to real-world non-technical business professionals.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cybercrime cost $600 billion in 2017.   What are the top threats and vulnerabilities for 2018?  Stan Stahl of Citadel Information Group returns to walk us through the threat landscape and discuss ways to build awareness about addressing cybersecurity. Dr. Stahl is a pioneer in the field of information security, having entered the field in 1980. Earlier in his career, he secured teleconferencing at the White House, databases inside Cheyenne Mountain and the communications network controlling our nuclear weapons arsenal. Dr. Stahl excels at helping his clients develop and implement information security management strategies consistent with their unique information security responsibilities, their business realities, and their cultural circumstances. He has that rare gift of being able to describe the complexities of information security in a way that makes sense to real-world non-technical business professionals.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Tech Agenda in Washington DC for 2018 as Bennet Kelley speaks with Internet Infrastructure Coalition Co-Founder Policy Working Group Chair David Snead. When the House of Representatives returns to work on Monday there will be approximately 90-days left on the House calendar until election day.  What is on tech’s agenda for this election-year session.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley and guest Jim Hedger from Digital Always Media weigh in on the ongoing battle to Become the Home of Amazon HQ2.Amazon HQ2 is a proposed new corporate headquarters for online retailer and tech company Amazon.com in North America, to supplement the existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon announced the initiative, along with a request for proposals from governments and economic development organizations, in September 2017, attracting attention from more than 200 cities in Canada, the United States and Mexico Amazon intends to have 50,000 workers at HQ2 and is planning to invest $5 billion in new construction. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all come under scrutiny for anticompetitive behavior and market domination, with increasing calls that it may be necessary to break up one or all of these entities.  This debate was fueled by commentaries by Matt Stoler and Lina Kahn from the Open Markets Institute (“OMI”).  See Antitrust and the Tech Giants: A Reader.  OMI reporter Kevin Carty joins us to discuss this debate.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era. Following the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, the returning vets and their children took the unprecedented economic growth and federal activism to new heights. This generation was led by presidents who believed in the commonwealth ideal: the belief that federal legislation, by encouraging individual opportunity, would result in the betterment of the entire nation. In the years after the war, these presidents created an outpouring of federal legislation that changed how and where people lived, their access to higher education, and their stewardship of the environment. They also spearheaded historic efforts to level the playing field for minorities, women and immigrants. But this dynamic did not last, and Goldfield shows how the shrinking of the federal government shut subsequent generations off from those gifts.David Goldfield brings this unprecedented surge in American legislative and cultural history to life as he explores the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. He brilliantly shows how the nation’s leaders persevered to create the conditions for the most gifted generation in U.S. history.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jeffrey A. Greenbaum, Managing Partner of Frankfurt Kurnit, returns to talk to Bennet about the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) increased focus on Influencer Marketing. They discuss a formal request that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate and bring enforcement actions related to the practice of non-disclosed advertising through “influencer” user profiles on Instagram.Based on an investigation conducted by Public Citizen and what is clear to anyone who browses popular Instagram profiles, Instagram has become a platform for disguised advertising directed towards young consumers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bitcoin, Blockchain Hype v Reality as Bennet Kelley speaks with Angela C. Walch, an Associate Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law,  2017 was heralded as the year of Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology, only to be greeted in the new year with a major drop in Bitcoin value. What is the substance behind the hype? What is Bitcoin and Blockchain? What is its promise? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For his newest project, R. Sikoryak tackles the monstrously and infamously dense legal document, iTunes Terms and Conditions, the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads. In a word for word 94-page adaptation, Sikoryak hilariously turns the agreement on its head―each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blanketsor Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.Adapting the legalese of the iTunes Terms and Conditions into another medium seems like an unfathomable undertaking, yet Sikoryak creates a surprisingly readable document, far different from its original, purely textual incarnation and thus proving the accessibility and flexibility of comics. When Sikoryak parodies Kate Beaton’s Hark A Vagrant peasant comics with Steve Jobs discussing objectionable material or Homer Simpson as Steve Jobs warning of the penalties of copyright infringement, Terms and Conditions serves as a surreal record of our modern digital age where technology competes with enduringly ironclad mediums.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mark Leibovich is the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. Based in Washington, he specializes in national politics, media and profiles of figures in public life. He is the recipient of the of the National Magazine Award for profile writing, and the author of This Town and Citizens of the Green Room. Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times (Penguin Press) is a merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football. Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life than he'd care to admit tuned into pro football. Leibovich kept his obsession relatively private. Still, every now and then Leibovich would reach out to Tom Brady to gauge his willingness to subject himself to a profile in the New York Times Magazine. To his surprise, Brady returned the call. So began a four-year odyssey that has taken Mark Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before. Ultimately, this is a chronicle of what may come to be seen as "peak football," but also the moment when it all began to turn. Big Gameis a journey through an epic storm. Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport we deserve.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., Alvin S. Felzenberg delves into the history of William J. Buckley, perhaps the most influential American conservative writer, activist, and organizer in the post-war era. Felzenberg explores little-known aspects of Buckley’s life, from his close friendship with the Reagans and role as a back-channel adviser to policymakers to his break with George W. Bush on the Iraq War.It is important to remember that, when National Review was founded, Buckley was the leader of a fringe movement. He made conservatism respectable again after the Great Depression and Second World War had delegitimized it. His prominence was due not only to his energy, diligence, and charisma, but also to his novelty, his impudence. For many years people wanted to hear what he had to say because no one else was saying it. In the world of I Like Ike, the New Frontier, and the Great Society, no similarly situated member of the New York elite held his then-outlandish views on the role of government, academic freedom, the place of religion in public life, and confrontation with the Soviet Empire. His courage shifted the intellectual and political landscape.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The 2016 Presidential Election and the Cultural Forces that Powered Donald Trump past Hillary Clinton and into the White House are identified.In his new book, The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore. Author Jared Yates Sexton talks to Bennet Kelley about his sobering chronicle of the sicknesses that plague our democracy―a divided nation drowning in racism, misogyny, violence, fake news, and deep-rooted political polarization as a result of our self-constructed, technologically-assisted echo chambers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Annual Year-End Heroes Zeros Show Wednesday December 20, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET on WebmasterRadio.fm We complete our 7th season with our annual year-end Heroes Zeros show.  I have listed my nominees, but our panelists Brenda Christensen, Denise Howell and Dan Tynan are sure to have their own nominees.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, Jonathan Taplin . Taplin is the Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, and a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, as well as a film producer for Martin Scorsese. An expert in digital media entertainment, Taplin is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the California Broadband Taskforce and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's Council on Technology and Innovation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As memories of the Cold War fade, and worries about a new era of tense relations between Russia and the West emerge, the moment is ripe to revisit the decades when the United States and the Soviet Union—the world’s two “super powers”—dictated geopolitical strategy, foreign policy, and economic stability.There were many reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia, but one man in particular was able to conceive of a post-Communist future in which peace and prosperity might be shared with former enemies and adversaries. In Gorbachev: His Life and Times, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian William Taubman combines rigorous biographical research, compelling narrative skill, and extensive access to his subject to create a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It's CyberLaw and Business Report's 2018 Cyber Thanksgiving Special and for the 6th year, we celebrate the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with a special show featuring a guest panel discussing websites/apps they are grateful for, recommendations for Giving Tuesday and maybe even share what they will be cooking for Thanksgiving. Pete Kronowitt and Benét Wilson return from last year and Kalika Yap joins us for the first time. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Eric Goldman is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law (SCU Law), where he is also Director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute.  His research and teaching focuses on Internet law, intellectual property and marketing law.Before becoming a full-time law professor, Eric practiced law in the Silicon Valley for 8 years, first as a technology transactions attorney at Cooley Godward LLP and then as General Counsel of Epinions.com, an Internet start-up company. Prior to Santa Clara, he was an Assistant Professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley Law School and the University of San Francisco Law School.He blogs on Internet law matters at the Technology Marketing Law Blog, which is one of the most influential internet law blawgs in the U.S.Eric recently curated a series of essays on Zeran v. AOL for Law.com (Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Internet Law’s Most Important Judicial Decision) and on February 2, 2017, SCU Law is hosting a conference on Content Moderation Removal at Scale.Eric is also an advocate in the fight against lung cancer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Plot to Hack America is the thrilling true story of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, used the promise of power and influence to cultivate Trump as well as his closest aides, the Kremlin Crew, to become unwitting assets of the Russian government. The goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections. We assess with high confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election, the consistent goals of which were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. When it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the election, the Russian influence campaign then focused on undermining her expected presidency.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A rogue tweet could bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage.Shame Nation is the first book to both study the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming, and offer practical guidance and inspiring advice on how to prevent and protect against cyber blunders and faceless bullies. Author and acclaimed Internet safety expert Sue Scheff unveils all sides of an issue that it only becoming more relevant day by day while drawing from the expertise of other top professionals spanning fields including law, psychology, and reputation management.From damning screenshots to revenge porn, Shame Nation shines a light on the rising trend of an online shame culture and empowers readers to take charge of their digital lives.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Emerging Law of Cyber Defense was recently discussed At the 2017 Privacy + Security Forum at George Washington University. Former Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney Allen O’Rourke led a panel on the issue of “active defense” techniques in responding to cyber attacks. Bennet talks to him all about it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Despite the outcome of the famous Techdirt lawsuit against Gawker, the Gawker effect continues. Bennet speaks with Techdirt founder Michael Masnick.  Mike Masnick founded TechDirt in 1999.  He coined the term “Streisand effect” in 2005 stemming from Barbra Streisand privacy lawsuit over aerial photographs taken of her Malibu estate.By the turn of the decade, Techdirt was a central repository for all news relating to tech policy, and Masnick was one of the most prominent figures in a growing but-still-mostly-unorganized movement that cared fervently about issues relating to digital rights.”*He is widely credited for being one of the leading media sources behind opposition to SOPA in 2012.  Masnick was named a Hero by CLBR in 2012 and in September received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award as “an outspoken activist for digital rights, the First Amendment, and a free and open Internet.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Cyberlaw and Business report we are joined by Andrea Shalal, Senior Correspondent at Thomson Reuters. The German parliament in June approved legislation that will allow authorities to fine social media networks up to 50 million euros if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, despite warnings that the law could limit free expression. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives will start talks in coming weeks on forming a new coalition with the environmental Greens, who abstained from voting for the law, and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), who opposed it outright. Parliamentary experts said it might be tough to overturn the law completely, but it would likely to be tweaked in coming years once authorities begin to implement it. Affected individuals or companies could also challenge it as unconstitutional, they said. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Voting in the United States is under attack.  On Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments on partisan gerrymandering that distorts election outcomes.  Other courts have weighed in our voter suppression efforts designed to reduce voting by disfavored segments.At the July DEFCON conference, there was a “Voting Machine Hacker Village”  which featured more than 30 pieces of equipment for hackers to try their hand at, along with a cyber training range that simulated a board of elections office network and voter registration database.  Within the first 90 minutes, hackers successfully hacked several pieces of equipment, including a machine and pollbook.Cambridge Global Advisors’ CEO Jake Braun, who originally proposed the idea of the Voting Village,  joins us to explain how they did it and what it means for our future elections.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  Detroit Revisited: Is it the Next Startup Hub? With Techstars Mobility’s Ted Serbinski Wed 10AM PT/ 1PM ET Listen Live This is our third show on Detroit and over the years we have discussed the city’s rise and fall and potential recovery.  In May, Ted Serbinski wrote Why I love the Detroit Startup Scene in VentureBeatAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hamilton 68 and Securing Democracy With Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly Wed 10AM PT/ 1PM ET Listen Live Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly from the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy discuss their latest project – Hamilton 68 a real-time dashboard that provides a near real-time look at Russian propaganda and disinformation efforts online.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

 He talks to Bennet about a recent case where a retired Air Force major is asking a federal court to declare Washington state's cyberstalking law unconstitutional, saying he's been threatened with prosecution — and up to a year in jail — for repeatedly making online posts that criticize a community activist.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Focal Law Group’s Venkat Balasubramani joins us to discuss two recent developments such as:-Dating Scraping after the hiQ Labs Decision in which the court enjoined LinkedIn from blocking access to publicly available information on its website.-Cloudflare, Free Speech and the Daily StormerAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Countdown to GDPR with the Future of Privacy Forum’s Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna The new EU General Data Protection Regulation Goes into effect on May 25, 2018 Changes – What is Personal Data Changes – Scope (not limited to EU) Changes – Consent New Consumer Rights – e.g. “the right to be forgotten”, and a right of “data. Before moving to the US, Gabriela worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor in Brussels, dealing both with enforcement (compliance) and policy matters. At the EDPS she worked in Cooperation and International Relations, dealing among other issues with international data transfers, participating to the work of the Article 29 Working Party. Gabriela received the Junior Scholar Award in 2014 at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference in Brussels for her work on the right to be forgotten. She is the first Romanian author to publish a comprehensive volume on the rights of the data subjects (“Protectia datelor personale. Drepturile persoanei vizate”, C.H. Beck, Bucharest, 2015). She published extensively on privacy and data protection in international journals and collective volumes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Cyberlaw and Business Report We talk to Taina Bien-Aimé on Backpage and CDA 230. There is an urgent need to amend Section 230 because the 1st Circuit, in Doe v.  Backpage, recently found that even if Backpage had participated in criminal activity, its conduct was protected from the claims of children who had been sold on its site. Indeed, the court advised the children to seek a legislative remedy because Section 230 was in conflict with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. While some tech companies are now publicly calling for Backpage to be prosecuted in federal court, this is in stark contrast to their private actions in support of Backpage. The Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other organizations representing technology companies have vigorously and consistently intervened in BackpageAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Todays show Bennet is joined by Mick Minas. He has over two decades experience as a basketball coach and his writing has been published by New Matilda and Prime Number. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1998 and currently lives with his wife and two children in Melbourne, Australia.  The Curse is his first book.  Jim Lynam was the first head coach hired by Donald Sterling, coaching the Clippers from 1983 to 1985.  He also coached the Philadelphia 76ers and Washington Bullets as part of a decorated career that spanned five decades. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he provides pre and postgame analysis for the 76ers on Comcast SportsNet. Mick and Bennet speak heavily about Mick's recent Book The Curse: The Colorful Chaotic History of the LA Clippers. From Bill Walton’s feet to DeAndre Jordan’s free throws, something always seems to go wrong for the LA Clippers. Beginning with the highly unusual birth of the franchise, the Clippers’ legacy has always carried with it the haunting suspicion that the team is cursed. Author Mick Minas goes behind the scenes— interviewing players, coaches, and front office personnel—to create the first in-depth look at the history of the Clippers. The Curse is filled with drama: the unauthorized relocation of the franchise that led to the NBA filing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Clippers, the disruption of the team’s first playoff appearance by the Los Angeles riots, the bold but unsuccessful attempt to sign Kobe Bryant at the peak of his career, and the scandal that ultimately resulted in owner Donald Sterling being banned from the NBA for life.   Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley discusses Cyber Censorship and Press Freedom with the Advocacy and Communications Director for Reporters Without Borders (RSF)  Margaux Ewen. Margaux joined RSF’s US office in July 2015 with a background in International Law. She has degrees from the Sorbonne in France and the George Washington University Law School in the US and speaks fluent French.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As thousands of websites plan a massive online protest to save Net Neutrality, including Twitter, Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, OK Cupid, Mozilla, Etsy, Kickstarter, and Vimeo.  CLBR  discusses this historic Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality and what it means.Our guest is Joshua Stager (@joshuastager) ‏policy counsel and government affairs lead at the New American Foundation’s Open Technology Institute.  Prior to joining New America, Stager was Sen. Al Franken’s law fellow on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he focused on telecommunications, antitrust, commercial privacy, and surveillance policy. He was previously a legislative aide in the House of Representatives and an assistant editor at Congressional Quarterly.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Cyber Law Business Report Brian Knappenberger joins the show. Brian is an award-winning documentary director, producer, and writer whose credits span film and television. His most recent feature film, The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Screenplay. In March 2016, a Florida jury returned a $140 million verdict in favor of Terry Bollea aka Hulk Hogan against Gawker Media for publishing a tape of him having sex with the wife of his best friend (shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge).  As the verdict forced Gawker into bankruptcy, it was discovered that the case had been funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel as a vendetta for past coverage of him and his personal life.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Supreme Court Strikes Blow Against Patent Trolls In 1990, only 1 patent lawsuit was filed in the Federal court for the Eastern District of Texas.  In the first quarter of 2017 it was 311 or 1/3rd of all patent infringement suits.Today on Cyberlaw Bennet is joined by Joel Voelkze. Joel is CLBR’s patent expert in residence and heads Voelkze IP Law in Malibu, California. Prior to establishing his own office, Mr. Voelzke was a partner at Oppenheimer Wolff Donnelly which was an international law firm at the time. Mr. Voelzke represents clients ranging in size from startup technology companies to Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Voelzke’s representative clients include: Hewlett-Packard Company; Avery Dennison Corporation; MGA Entertainment, Inc.; Magnecomp Corporation; VIS Racing Sports, Inc.; Pricegrabber.com, Inc.; Menache LLC; Quiklite, Inc.; Electronics for Imaging, Inc.; New Dream Network, LLC; National R.V. Inc.; Country Coach LLC; and TechnoConcepts, Inc.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Cyberlaw Radio Bennet is joined by the founder of TrollBusters Michelle Ferrier. TrollBusters was born at the International Women’s Media Foundation hackathon for women news entrepreneurs in New York City on January 30, 2015. The problem — Find a way to address trolls and cyberharassment that predominantly affects strong women voices online. Our solution — Counter hate with love by sending positive, affirming messaging for the target to the point of attack. We provide a hedge of protection around the individual, helping to provide emotional support and reputation management during cyber crises. TrollBusters won a top prize from Google at the International Women’s Media Foundation hackathon in New York in January 2015. The team won $3,000 for development. The Knight Prototype Fund awarded $35,000 in development funds in April 2015 to TrollBusters to develop a prototype for the positive messaging service.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

 Tynan and Christensen on Uber in Crisis Our frequent guests Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen are back to talk about Uber in Crisis. Dan (@tynanwrites) is an award-winning tech journalist and former Editor-in-Chief o Yahoo Tech. Brenda  (@brendachrist) is a tech veteran and President of Stellar Public Relations, a world leader in publicAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on Cyberlaw Business Report Bennet is joined by Ari Giovenco,the Director of Trade and International policy for the Internet Association. They go through everything digital under this presidential regime, specifically digital trade.  Ari Giovenco leads IA’s digital trade work and is primarily focused on promoting trade policies that encourage balanced intellectual property frameworks, intermediary liability protections, cross-border data flows, and restrictions on data localization. In addition, he covers a number of international regulatory matters that impact the digital economy and is active on global internet governance issues. Ari speaks regularly on these topics and is actively engaged with tech policy stakeholders across the spectrum.Donald Trump being in office, just like anyone else, the digital market changes its playing field. They both touch on Trump's statements on not having to follow WTO ruling, and address trade barriers.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With the growing influence of social media, many companies are encouraging their employees to maximize their use of social media to connect with potential clients and diversify their marketing efforts. However, the employees’ frequent use of these social media platforms can compromise intellectual property assets, especially trade secrets. Thus, it is essential for companies to establish robust policies and procedures to protect proprietary information and avoid possible legal risks.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking about Russia and the Weaponized Narrative as Bennet Kelley with Braden R. Allenby Co-chair of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative of the Center for the Future of War, at Arizona State University. They discuss the impact that Russia may have played regarding the 2016 US and 2017 French general elections.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

David Sandel returns to discuss the State of the Gigabit Nation.David is an accomplished executive architect focused on the planning and the execution of Smart or Gigabit City initiatives. As President of Sandel Associates. David and his team work with cities, community organizations and technology providers to develop plans to accelerate the development of their Smart or Gigabit City initative. In this regard, David has served as an advisor to the Google Fiber Mayors Bi-state Innovation Team MBIT and Mid-America Regional Council MARC of Kansas City and was also the co-author of Playing to Win – the Kansas City Google Fiber Playbook.David received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he also attended graduate school. He has also served on a variety of state and local government economic development councils as well as regional and entrepreneurial planning boards.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

David Sandel returns to discuss the State of the Gigabit Nation.David is an accomplished executive architect focused on the planning and the execution of Smart or Gigabit City initiatives. As President of Sandel Associates. David and his team work with cities, community organizations and technology providers to develop plans to accelerate the development of their Smart or Gigabit City initative. In this regard, David has served as an advisor to the Google Fiber Mayors Bi-state Innovation Team MBIT and Mid-America Regional Council MARC of Kansas City and was also the co-author of Playing to Win – the Kansas City Google Fiber Playbook.David received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he also attended graduate school. He has also served on a variety of state and local government economic development councils as well as regional and entrepreneurial planning boards.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet interviews Annie Goldson, the director of  Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, a feature-length documentary about one of the world’s most notorious Internet entrepreneurs (or pirates. depending on your point of view). The film about the Germany-born, New Zealand-based founder of MegaUpload was recently featured at SXSW 2017 and is described as “a film about ownership, privacy and piracy in the digital age.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet talks to Eva Velasquez, the President/CEO at the Identity Theft Resource Center. Founded in 1999, the Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC) is a nationally recognized non-profit organization established to support victims of identity theft in resolving their cases and to broaden public education and awareness in the understanding of identity theft, data breaches, cybersecurity, scams/fraud, and privacy issues. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

  CLBR #255: Eva Velasquez on Identity Theft Listen Live Wednesday at 10AM Pacific on Cranberry.fm       Data Breaches Increase 40 Percent in 2016 2017 Data Breaches ITRC Fact Sheet 101: Are You at Risk for Identity Theft? ITRC Fact Sheet 147: Risks of Mobile Applications Identity Theft Red Flags ITRC Solution 37:and Doxing. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daytona Beach News Journal Sports Editor Scott Zucker Returns to CLBR. With March Madness in full bloom, the NBA Playoffs and the baseball season about to start, we thought we would check in with Scott Zucker – especially in light of his recent column “Passer rating, not politics, hurting Colin Kaepernick” coming days after President Trump’s statements about the quarterback.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley discusses Hate in the USA as he welcomes Heidi Beirich who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. She discusses the SPLC's findings that the number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to their recently released annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley welcomes back Free Press’ Matt Wood to talk about the Battle over Net Neutrality. Before joining Free Press, he worked at the public interest law firm Media Access Project and in the communications practice groups of two private law firms in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, worked for PBS, and spent time at several professional and college radio and television stations. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Art is the founder of New Media Rights and a law professor at California Western School of Law, specializing in the areas of internet, intellectual property, privacy, and media law. Art has provided and overseen legal services to nearly 2000 small businesses, entrepreneurs, and creators, and is a 3 time appointee to the Federal Communication Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee.The book is co-written by Teri Karobonik who is a former Staff Attorney at New Media Rights where she worked with all manner of creative individuals on a daily basis on preventative, transactional and pre-litigation matters. In 2015 Teri was appointed as an Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellow in recognition of her work as an early career leader in the tech law and policy space.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley welcomes back return guest Walter O’Brien (aka “Scorpion”). Walter is the founder of Los Angeles-based ScorpionComputerServices.com and ConciergeUp.com, a global think tank for hire that provides intelligence on demand as a concierge service for ANY funded need. Walter is the Executive Producer of the hit CBS-TV drama Scorpion with over 26 million television viewers that is inspired by his life.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Center for Strategic and International Studies senior vice president James Lewis, who writes on technology, security, and innovation., discusses Cybersecurity for the 45th President. Lewis is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity. His writings include “Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency,” which was noted by President Barack Obama in his first speech on cybersecurity. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with craigslist founder Craig Newmark about his campaign against online harassment at Wikipedia. Since 2011,  Newmark has been working though craigconnects to unite the world for the common good using the Internet. It seeks to identify, connect, and promote organizations that are making that vision happen.  This includes the organizations and interests highlighted below.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Wayne May,  the founder of the UK-based Scam Survivors Online, a volunteer staffed organization that focuses on:Making scammers’ lives harder by exposing their details and scripts to search engines.Educating the public, thus removing scammers’ sources of income as scams will continue as long as there are victims.Helping people to see that, even after being scammed, they CAN move forward and things DO get better.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses the Implications of a potential A T and T/T-Mobile Merger with, plus an interview with U.S. Rep Dana Rohrabacher, R-California about a Congressional Patent Bill Disguised as Bank Bailout.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

First up this week is the question on wether or not California will approve the "Amazon Tax", and Lisa Picarille gives Bennet an update on just what the current outlook is. In the second half of the show marketing legend Q gives insight into the "Law of Q" and how technology has evolved the advertising space since he began.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mary Engle who directs the Federal Trade Commissions Division of Advertising Practices and is featured in the FTC videos explaining the endorsement guidelines. We will be talking about the recent Technorati State of the Blogosphere report which showed an alarming gap in compliance with the Endorsement Guidelines.In addition, we will be covering the FTC-Facebook privacy settlement, the latest from Capital Hill on SOPA and sales taxes and the infrastructure hack that wasnt?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Josh Levy from Free Press talks about CISPA and Stop Cyber Spying Week. Rebecca Wilkins from Citizens for Tax Justice joins Bennet to discuss Corporate Tax Dodgers including none other than Apple Computers. Plus, Today in history which includes the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the worlds longest baseball game played in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Crowdsourcing with GeniusRocket President Peter Lamotte, and ESPN.com Poker analyst Gary Wise on DOJ Online Gambling Settlement whereby two overseas online poker firms settled their money laundering charges for 731 million dollars.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Debating the American Empire as Bennet Kelley speaks with Stephen Kinzer, author of the new book, “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth of an American Empire”.The True Flag tells the tale of a time when the nation was engulfed in a heated debate over whether to become a global empire and the consequences, as the United States weighed what to do with Hawaii and the possessions won in the Treaty of Paris (1898) that concluded the Spanish American War.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Frequent guest Jayne Hitchcock returns for the first time since CLBR #184 (June 3, 2015) to discuss her new book “Cyber Bullying and the Wild Wild Web.” J. A. Hitchcock is a nationally recognized cybercrime and cyberbullying expert who has helped pass laws related to online harassment in many states, including Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. As president of Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA, at http://www.haltabuse.org), J.A. helps victims of cyberstalking crimes fight back. She volunteers her time as a consultant on Internet crime cases for police departments worldwide, the U.S. Department of Justice Victims of Crime, and the National Center for Victims of Crime.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Trump Cabinet Confirmations Confronted  and how the Democrats plan to confront and vet a select number of cabinet appointees for the incoming Trump administration. Plus, Bennet offers a preview of what to expect from upcoming episodes of CyberLaw and Business Report. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley interviews Dan Lyons, author of Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble,  and Human Rights Watch’s Kristine Beckerle comes on to talk about Social Media and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As we do every year, we end the year with a light-hearted review of the cyber heroes and zeros of the year. Our frequent guests Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen will be the judges alongside host Bennet Kelley. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Struggle for Voting Rights discussed as Bennet Kelley speaks with Ari Berman, a senior contributing writer for The Nation and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. Berman is a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Reporting Fellow at The Nation Institute. Business Insider named Berman one of the “50 most influential political pundits” in the US. He’s written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Politico and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, NPR and C-Span. He’s lectured extensively around the country, including at the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week we feature one of the authors from the Miami Book Fair as Bennet Kelley speaks with  Boston Globe columnist Michael A. Cohen author of American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division. In American Maelstrom, Michael A. Cohen captures the full drama of this watershed election, establishing 1968 as the hinge between the decline of political liberalism, the ascendancy of conservative populism, and the rise of anti-government attitudes that continue to dominate the nation’s political discourse. In this sweeping and immersive book, equal parts compelling analysis and thrilling narrative, Cohen takes us to the very source of our modern politics of division.Michael A. Cohen is an author, columnist and regular commentator on both national politics and American foreign policy. He is a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and World Politics Review and the U.S Political Correspondent for the London Observer.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with the authors of The Growth Gears, Art Saxby and Pete Hayes who share their linear method of transforming into a market-focused organization. The book provides a simple framework as well as tools and action steps for identifying and adding these “gears” to give your company a set of repeatable behaviors and processes to fully capitalize on your market potential.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CLBR’s Cyber Thanksgiving Special as Bennet Kelley welcomes his expert panel for a discussion of all the things they are thankful for this year. Aviation Queen Benet Wilson, Nimble's Jon Ferrara and Software Strategist of Intel's Open Source Technology Center Pete Kronowitt .Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet takes a clean break from election coverage thanks to our friends at the Miami Book Fair (MBFI).  We broadcast our interview with Amy Haimerl, author of “The Detroit Hutstle: A Memoir of Love, Life Home”. Amy is a professor of journalism at Michigan State University and covers small business and urban policy for Fortune, Reuters and the New York Times. She was the entrepreneurship editor at Crain’s Detroit Business, where she covered the city’s historic bankruptcy trial. She is an alum of Fortune Small Business, CNNMoney and USAA Magazine, as well as a former Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2016 Post Presidential Election Analysis with Bennet Kelley welcoming back Mike O' Neil from national public opinion research firm O'Neil Associates. Michael J. O’Neil is President of O’Neil Associates, a national public opinion research firm based in Tempe, Arizona. O’Neil Associates has conducted more than 1,700 opinion research surveys in the last 35 years for entities including Fortune 100 companies, law firms, labor unions, hospitals, utilities, nonprofits, and government agencies. Dr. O’Neil has also been a television and radio commentator in every election since 1980. A sociologist by training, he has taught at several universities including the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is Russia Trying to Influence Our Election? It would not be the first time, as Russia has a history of engaging in cyber attacks against rival nations. The Atlantic Council‘s Kenneth Geers (PhD, CISSP) (@KennethGeers) joins us to discuss this development. Plus, Veloz Group founder Adam Mendler and Ryan Sacks discuss ergonomics and disruption in the office space sector.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley reports on location from the Information Systems Security Association Los Angeles Summit 2016,. He speaks with ‎Chief Information Security Officer at Scripps Health Powell Hamilton and Andrea Hoy, the CEO of A. Hoy Associates, and the International President of Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Fighting Cyber Exploitation and Fundamentalism as University of Miami Law Professor and Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Vice President Mary Anne Franks returns to CLBR provide an update on the battle over Cyber Exploitation (more commonly known as Revenge Porn).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Social Media and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia as 14,000 Saudi Women Sign Petition to End Male Guardianship Laws In Response to Twitter Campaign. Bennet Kelley speaks with Human Rights Watch’s Kristine Beckerle (@K_Beckerle). Kristin is the Yemen and Kuwait researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division, investigating international human rights and humanitarian law violations in Yemen and human rights abuses in Kuwait.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Google’s Antitrust Battle with the EU as Yair Cohen (@CyberLawExpert) founder of the London-based Cohen Davis Solicitors joins us to discuss the brewing battle between Google and the EU over Antitrust. Regulators have focused on accusations that Google diverts traffic from competitors rivals to favor its own comparison shopping site.FTC rejected such charges in 2013.Reached settlement in 2014 that fell through.May 2016 reports that EU will seek €3 billion fine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We are thrilled to welcome back Webcology host Jim Hedger (@jimhedger). Jim has been a webmaster and SEO for over 15 years. He offers not only a tech perspective, but as a resident of Toronto, he can provide a Canadian perspective on this most unusual election.Jim and Bennet discuss The 2016 United States Presidential Election race and  the candidates positions on tech related issues.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dan Lyons is the author of the bestseller Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble which the Los Angeles Times called “the best book about Silicon Valley today.”Dan is a novelist, journalist, and worked for two seasons as a screenwriter on the HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley. Previously Dan was editor ofReadWrite; technology editor at Newsweek; and a technology reporter at Forbes. In 2006, Dan created The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a blog that evolved into a novel and a cable TV comedy show, Icon, which never made it into production but led to his work on Silicon Valley.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Brian Michael Jenkins is a senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation and author of numerous books, reports, and articles on terrorism-related topics, including Will Terrorists Go Nuclear? (2008, Prometheus Books). He formerly served as chair of the Political Science Department at RAND. On the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Jenkins initiated a RAND effort to take stock of America’s policy reactions and give thoughtful consideration to future strategy. That effort is presented in The Long Shadow of 9/11: America’s Response to Terrorism (Brian Michael Jenkins and John Paul Godges, eds., 2011).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As we did in 2012, CLBR takes an Olympic detour to focus on the state of its host country – Brazil with Susanna Hecht of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and its Latin American Institute.  Among other things, Brazil is:the 5th largest and 5th most populous country on earth;the 7th largest economy;home to the 4th largest population of internet users;the 3rd largest producer of renewable energy;home to 21 of the 50 most violent cities in the world;suffering from a severe recession; andis in a state of political crisis.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley discusses Battle over Adblocking with PageFair’s Johnny Ryan. Dr Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) is Head of Ecosystem for PageFair where he works with global stakeholders to sustain the open Web beyond blocking. His previous roles include being Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times.Dublin-based PageFair is the leader in ad block solutions for website publishers. PageFair Analytics is used by over 2000 publishers to measure their exposure to ad blocking. PageFair technology is used by many premium publishers to restore blocked ad inventory. PageFair Ads is a self-serve advertising platform that displays non-intrusive ad formats to ad block users.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Internet Gun Sales and the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater Shooting with the Curator of the Cherokee Heritage Center and Gun Historian David Kennedy. Kennedy is now Curator of Collections and Exhibits at the U. S. Marshals Museum, Inc.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Netroots Nation Conference is convening next week, the Republican Convention will be in Cleveland the following week and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia the week after that.Joining us to make sense of this unpredictable election year is Villanova University Professor Matthew R. Kerbel, who is the author of the newly released Next Generation Netroots: Realignment and the Rise of the Internet Left.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with the author of HACKED: The Inside Story of America’s Struggle to Secure Cyberpsace, Charlie Mitchell.The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks of Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate America to address the growing threat, the hacks keep coming—each one more pernicious than the last—from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, the Middle East, and points unknown. The continuing attacks raise a deeply disturbing question: Is the issue simply beyond the reach of our government, political leaders, business leaders, and technology visionaries to resolve? In Hacked, veteran cybersecurity journalist Charlie Mitchell reveals the innovative, occasionally brilliant, and too-often hapless government and industry responses to growing cybersecurity threats. He examines the internal power struggles in the federal government, the paralysis on Capitol Hill, and the industry’s desperate effort to stay ahead of both the bad guys and the governmentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kristen Brown returns, now with Fusion, to discuss her recent work on online trolls. Brown writes about how technology is impacting the future of our bodies, our brains and our culture.  Before that, she covered tech for The San Francisco Chronicle also been a Hearst Fellow, a founding editor and writer at the politics and culture magazine The Caravan in India, a contributing writer for Adweek and a New York City breaking news reporter.Her favorite stories are: profiling the Internet’s biggest troll, freaking out my boss with some tech-enabled cyberstalking, going to Internet addiction camp and this random story about a landfill in Upstate New York.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Ari Ezra Waldman, an Associate Professor and the Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at NYLS. He is the Founder and Director of the Tyler Clementi Institute for CyberSafety, which includes the first-of-its-kind law school pro bono clinic representing victims of online harassment. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With the California Primary that will decide the nominees of both parties and narrow the field for an open U.S. Senate seat, Bennet Kelley welcomes former Assembly Majority Leader Dario Frommer to give us a preview of the races.Dario is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Ford, a Washingon powerhouse that includes several former members of Congress.His practice is a mix of strategic political advice to key clients and representation of clients on high-stakes matters before state and local government entities, including rulemaking, regulatory enforcement, bids, bid protests and investigations.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks about Ransomware with Brad Taylor – CEO of Proficio, a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) focused on changing the way organizations meet their IT security and compliance goals.Brad has 20+ years experience in the enterprise software, security, and networking industry as a senior executive in sales, marketing, business development, acquisitions, operations, and venture capital.  He has built and managed multiple sales teams as a VP of Sales and assisted in two highly successful IPO’s with RSA Security (RSAS, now EMC) and ArcSight (ARST).  In addition, he has helped several companies get up and running to successful sales and market positions as a VP of Worldwide Sales / Marketing / Business Development for companies including eIQnetworks, SOA Software, and AirTight Networks.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Internet Entrepreneur,  Front End Consultant, Tech Business Strategist, Nighttime code monkey, Author, Photographer and Blogger Tom Nora returns to CLBR to discuss his new e-book, “Hacking the Core”Tom joins us today to talk about his soon to be released book, “Hacking the Core” which deals with key themes such as innovate, entrepreneur, Porsche, Steve Jobs and Apple, robots, Google and fear.  Tom explains that:Hacking The Core (HTC) is a term I hacked from software engineering, specifically from pre-built CMS Open Source projects that advise the opposite.  “Don’t Hack The Core.” It’s the foundation of my structured theory of innovation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apartment Renting Made Easier is the subject as Bennet speaks with Entrepreneurial, high tech, media executive Raj Chauhan, the CRO at HomeMe.Founded in Los Angeles in 2015 and launched in 2016 by veterans of the tech and real estate industries, HomeMe is a newer, faster way to rent an apartment. Designed to streamline the daunting rental application process, our pre-approval system makes renting an apartment refreshingly easy for both renters and managers, saving time and money by pre-approving renters.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Engine returns to CLBR to discuss its Presidential Candidate Scorecard.  Engine is a research foundation and advocacy group that supports the growth of technology entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis, and advocacy on local and national issues.  In 2013, Michael McGeary joined us to discuss Engine’s Startup Day on Capitol Hill.Today Engine’s Executive Director Evan Engstrom join us. As Executive Director and formerly, Engine’s first Policy Director, Evan develops Engine’s positions on the key policy issues facing startups and the tech community and manages the organization’s daily operations.In releasing the scorecard, Engstrom stressed:Given the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to our national economy, it is hugely important that the presidential candidates address some of the most pressing issues facing American startups and tech companies.  The answers to these issues are not easy, and they will require a nuanced, thoughtful approach. But the results of this report card highlight the lack of understanding and attention being paid to these issues in the 2016 election cycle. There is an opportunity here for candidates to go on the record and champion policies that will help startups grow and thrive.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On location from the (International Association of Privacy Professionals) IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2016, Bennet Kelley talks about the latest news on the WhatsApp Encryption story and the latest details on the Panama Papers.He also discusses some the following conference hot button stories:APP Update: FBI GC Answers Questions on Apple and EncryptionFCC Launches Privacy Rulemaking But first, Bennet speaks with Feedonomics CTO Robert Foizen who explains why Los Angeles-based Feedonomics has become one of the top platforms for online shopping feeds.  Feedonomics is a shopping feed platform used to optimize raw data and feed to multiple channels like Google Shopping, Amazon, Bing, and hundreds more!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apple Privacy Battle and SXSW Cyber Harassment Debate among topics discussed with Bennet Kelley and his return veteran tech journalist Dan Tynan.We learn who are the winners and losers now that the FBI has cracked the Apple Code, the controversial and heavily guarded cyber harassment summit at SXSW, plus location tracking, Twitters 10th Anniversary.Also,a vocal group of activists and people in media circles have charged that the News Genius Web annotation tool from the startup Genius can be used to harass and abuse people online. By effectively duplicating and attaching a line-by-line comments section to any article, with or without the consent of the author, they say that Genius silences writers.In a letter sent to Genius earlier today, Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D.,Mass.) agreed with these critics,formally asking the company to clarify what actions it is taking to prevent possible abuse. In a letter provided toRe/code, Genius said that while it appreciated Rep. Clarks thoughts on online harassment, we want to be clear that Genius does not enable abuse. This is a false narrative that has taken hold on Twitter and other outlets.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cameron Kerry returns to the program to speak with Bennet Kelleyto talk about the US-EU Privacy Conflict. Kerry is the former General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce, has played a leadership role in addressing many of the biggest challenges facing business today, including consumer privacy issues and the flow of information and technology across international borders. He is a thought leader on global privacy, security and information flows whose writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, TechCrunch, andForbes.com and is quoted by The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal among other publications.Kerry joined us in 2014 to talk about the ICANN transition. Click here for detailsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Digital Medicine as Bennet Kelley speaks with co-founder and managing partner at Nelson Hardiman, Harry Nelson. One area where the internet is revolutionizing services, but which is often overlooked, is in medicine and health care. This week we explore this issue with Nelson,who has been at the forefront in this field as a lawyer, entrepreneur and thought leader.Harry has a track record of real leadership at the nexus of healthcare and business challenges, focusing on federal and state regulatory compliance, business strategy, and developing practical solutions to vexing industry problems. He regularly advises a broad range of healthcare, life science, and technology companies (as well as their investors). Harry has deep experience working with entrepreneurial healthcare ventures, including telehealth issues and new business models. He is known as an attorney who is passionate about the healthcare industry and deeply invested in his clients success.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act passed Congress last year as part of the 2015 budget package signed by President Obama on December 18, 2015. While CISA had support from the business community, including the powerful US Chamber of Commerce and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, it was opposed by civil liberties groups Twitter, Yelp, Apple and the Computer & Communications Industry Association whose members include Google, Amazon.com, Cloudflare, Netflix, Facebook, Red Hat, and Yahoo! Edward Snowden said a vote for CISA was a vote against the internet.Bennet Kelley speaks with Susan Hennessey, aManaging Editor of Lawfare and General Counsel of the Lawfare Instituteanda Brookings Fellow in National Security Law, who has addressed the arguments against CISA in a series of columns in Lawfare.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cyber Security: The View Inside the Beltway as Bennet Kelley speaks with Sean Lyngaas,an FCW (Federal Computer Week) staff writer covering defense, cybersecurity and intelligence issues.From the recent passage of Cyber Information Sharing Act, to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach and the nascent Pentagon Cyber Command, Washington is increasingly focusing on cyber security.Prior to joining FCW, Seanwas a reporter and editor at Smart Grid Today, where he covered everything from cyber vulnerabilities in the U.S. electric grid to the national energy policies of Britain and Mexico. His reporting on a range of global issues has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Diplomat and The Washington Post.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Santa Monica startup WaiveCar could become the next big sharing economy disruptor. As explained by CEO Isaac Deutch:The idea behind WaiveCar is to provide free to low cost, clean transportation alternatives for cities. We cover our costs with ad revenue via a digital display mounted on the roof of the vehicle.The displays are not just a computer monitor besides for being military grade, the screens are smart they can display ads dynamically, including geolocated ads very cool for on street, hyper localized ads.For now, were using the Chevy Spark EV. We have 20 cars and they get about 80 miles of range on a charge. Our first market is LA, starting in Santa Monica. From there were planning on expanding the LA fleet to 200 vehicles.Rentals are completely FREE for the first 2 hours. We just take need to check your drivers license and have a CC on file. After 2 hours, its $5.99 / hr (not to make money, but to ensure trips are short and the system can be used by all).We launched on Monday. If youre in Santa Monica, please download the app, stop by, and rent a car for free!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Gerald Posner, author of Gods Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican Bank. Afterwards, hespeaks with legendary writer/director/producer David Paulsen who traveled to the Vatican in 1970 as a journalist, accompanying Bishop James Edward Walsh to meet with Pope Paul VI following his release after 12 years in prison in China and has met some of the actors involved in the Vatican Bank Story.Gods Bankers isa rare exposand an astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the churchs aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger dilemmas of the worlds more recent history.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley welcomes returning guest, Leeor Neta, to comment on the recent victory on the copyrightdecisionin the Northern District of California of a case between Media.net Advertising vs. Netseer, Inc. Leo explains how he CSS codes how a company can protect their websites HTML.Leeor counsels clients on intellectual property, Internet and mobile marketing, data privacy, communications, and general corporate law. He has prosecuted and defended hundreds of intellectual property and Internet-related disputes. He represents domestic and foreign clients in a variety of matters, including IP infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, domain disputes, and licensing. His practice spans a variety of jurisdictions in courts throughout the country. Leeor is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We learn about Berkman Center Internet MonitorwithRebekah Heacock Jones,Senior Project Manager at HarvardsBerkman Center for Internet & Society, manages complex projects with research, technical development, and community organizing components.The launch of the Berkman Center Internet Monitor dashboard, Harvards Center for Internet and Society explains it asa freely accessible tool that aims to improve information for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and user communities working to shape the future of the Internet by helping them understand trends in Internet health and activity through data analysis and visualization. . . .The dashboard lets users customize a collection of data visualization widgetssome offering real-time dataabout Internet access and infrastructure, online content controls, and digital activity. Users can create multiple collections that enable easy comparisons across countries and data sources, and are quick to configure, edit, and share. In addition to creating their own collections, visitors to the dashboard will be able to view a selection of featured collections based on topics such as online media and network traffic around the world.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelleytalks with acclaimed actor, playwright, and authorEric Bogosian. Bogosian is best known as the writer and star of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play and Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio and for playing Captain Danny Ross for five seasons on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.Our interview was recorded previously courtesy of the Miami Book Fair. It was a fascinating discussion that continued after we off the air.Bogosians new book tells the story of a tightly knit band of killers, who in 1921, set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist David Maraniss talks about his latest book, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story. Bennet Kelley talks to David here about the rise of Motown and how it captured the world with its amazing artists. Plus we go back to a interview Bennet had withSteve RenekeronMaking the City of Angels Los Angeles a Gig City.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As we do every year, we end the year with a light-hearted review of the cyber heroes and zeros of the year. Frequent guests Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen arethe judges.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With voting set to begin in Iowa in less than two months and the race becoming more heated with each statement from Donald Trump, what better time to take a look at the Republican field and the office they seek.Bennet Kelleyspeaks with White House correspondent Kenneth Walsh, author of Celebrity in Chief: A history of the Presidents and the Culture of Stardom, courtesy of the Miami Book Fair.Walsh is followed by Washington Times Columnist Ralph Hallow who gave his assessment of the Republican field following the Conservative Political Action Committee convention.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Battling Mexicos Cartels Online as Bennet Kelley welcomes Rafa Fernandez De Castro.De Castro recently wrote in FusionHow Narco Data seeks to x-ray Mexicos drugcartels, detailingefforts byNarco Datato create an online platform to assemble historic and current information on the drug cartels.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley is joined byDavid Rieff to discuss his bookThe Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century. Reiff's book serves as areview about whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised. Moving into the second segment Bennet is joined byDelphine Halgand to discuss enemies of the internet.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundations (EFF) Jeremy Malcolm joins us to discuss the movement against the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement.We covered the pro-TPP arguments in CLBR #190 with Tami Overby from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Californias New Privacy Law and Stupid Arguments as Bennet Kelley speakswith Ian Mitroff, the author of Dumb, Deranged, and Dangerous: A Smart Guide to Combating Dumb Arguments.Also,California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), and Bennet talks about the law passage withChris Conley, technology and civil Liberties policy attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussingthe Brave New World of Domaining asReg Levy, VP Compliance + Policy for Minds + Machines and back from ICANN54 Dublin gives us an update on the brave new world of gTLDs and the ICANN transition away fromthe Department of Commerce.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley welcomes Jamie Bartlett,the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, where he specializes in online social movements and the impact of technology on society. He talks to Bennet about his new book, the Dark Net, which takes readersinto the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we dont know.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelly speaks with Hemanshu (Hemu) Nigam, an online safety, security, and privacy expert and CEO of SSP Blue.He is going to speak about some about the recent hack of the Apple App system and theWin32/Spy.Odlanortrojan being used to spy on users cars.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley talks to Silicon Beach Entrepreneur, Thought LeaderErik Huberman of Hawke Media, a Santa Monica, California-basedoutsourced CMO and digital advertising agency.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Art Neill talks to Bennet Kelley about New Media Rights' Innovative Fair Use App To Help Filmmakers And Online Video Creators. New Media Rights advises filmmakers, creators, and technology startups about copyright, fair use, and when they can and can’t reuse content.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley discussesDigital Media Trends with Tony Winders, Winders Consulting Group.Tony shares theThree Developing Trends in Digital Media: Programmatic, Adblocking and Flash-ocalypse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mark Jeftovic, the founder and CEO of easyDNS.com, talks to Bennet Kelley about his Confessions of an ex-opponent of Whois Privacy.The legendary House of Blues on the Sunset Strip closed its doorsthis week. Nigel Shanley, who was there at the beginning and opened the House of Blues in Las Vegas, shares some of his memories of this iconic venue.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing The Wild West of Social Media and more importantly Celebrity EndorsementsasThe Updated Federal Trade Commission Endorsement Guidelines attempted to clarify what rules govern endorsements on social media. How effective has that been? Heather Antoine, founder and owner of Antoine Law Group, fills us in.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks withthe U.S. Chamber of Commerces Senior Vice President for Asia Tami Overby about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The US Chamber of Commerce is an active supporter of the TPP, although there is opposition to the treaty within the tech community.The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ("TPP") is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by nine countries: The United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ken White, a writer at the legal blog Popehat is back to talk to Bennet Kelley about how broke the news regarding how federal prosecutors based in New York sent a grand jury subpoena and letter to Reason.com. Plus, we learn how a gag order came from a U.S. District Court, meaning Reason could not write or speak publicly about the subpoena or gag order—even to acknowledge either existed.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Future of Privacy Forums Joe Jerome, who recently was on to discuss privacy and the internet of things, joins us to discuss the Future of Privacy Forums latest Study of Privacy Practices in Sharing EconomyAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Domain theft is a growing problem, as domain names can be easily transferred to overseas registrars and sold. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has received more than 140 complaints about domain-name thefts in the past 20 months. At least 15 cases seeking the return of domain names were filed in U.S. courts last year, up from five in 2013 and 10 in 2012. David Weslow,  ‎IP and New Media Attorney at Wiley Rein LLP, joins Bennet Kelley to discuss.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley talks with Gordon Firemark about the 9th Circuit Innocence of the Muslims Ruling as well as what it means for AirBNB.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On Today's show Bennet Kelley welcomes back Chris Olson, the very first guest of the radio program and the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the FTC to talk about Privacy for consumers in today's modern world and where we've come since the 1st episode.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

WeMeet the Producer/Director Whose Unaired Doc Has Cost Yelp Millions asKaylie Milliken of Prost Productions joins Bennet Kelleyto talk about her documentary, Billion Dollar Bully.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Earlier this month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a ruling from the US Patent and Trademark Office that the so-called Podcast Patent was invalid and obvious. Bennet learns more about the case fromVera Raineri,Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundations intellectual property team, focusing on patent reform.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Host Bennet Kelly speaks with Attorney Mark Ishman about the dangers and issues from Data Breaches and what should be done about it. Reports of Data Breaches are becoming a common occurrence In 2014, a Ponemon Institute survey estimated that 47 percent of all American adults have been affected by data breaches in the last year Target has settled consumer claims arising out of its 2013 data breach compromising…Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses the aftermath of the Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination case Kristen Brown covered the trial for the San Francisco Chronicle and made a particularly astute assessment to Bennet Kelley about the jurys finding in favor of Kleiner Perkins. Also, we hear from David Gelles,reporter for the New York Times, covering mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and Wall Street, and the author of Mindful Work.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelly discusses the topic of Should Corp Offenders Go to Jail with the author of Why Not Jail?: Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance and Government Inaction  Rena Steinzor. Rena is a professor of law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Countdown to Zero Day author, and top cybersecurity journalist, Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Irans nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley taks to filmmaker and author Joe McGovern,who has left the comforts of his home in Venice Beach, California and traveled across the country seeking out Republicans to try to bridge the partisan divide as part of his documentary The Other Side. He currently is raising money on GoFundMe to finish and distribute the end result of 82 interviews..Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group gave its 2015 Mary Litynski lifetime achievement award to our guest Jayne Hitchcock for her efforts in assisting targeted individuals, training law enforcement, supporting antiharassment legislation and teaching teenagers how to protect themselves from potential threats. Bennet Kelley talks to Jayne about the prestigious honor.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Over the past years, we have had many discussions about Net Neutrality with both proponents and opponents. With the Federal Communications Commission set to vote on a new net neutrality proposal, we talk again with Craig Aaron, the President and CEO of FreePressAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Maryland Carey Law Professor (and author of Black Box Society) Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on other.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley discusses The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and the Fight Against Revenge Porn with one of the leading advocates in the fight against Revenge Porn University of Miami Law professor Mary Anne Franks. Franks is Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and has testified in state capitals across the country to push for laws addressing revenge porn.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Joseph Jerome, Policy Counsel for the Future of Privacy Forum joins Bennet Kelleyto discuss the FTCs recent staff report on the privacy implications of the Internet of Things.The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a Washington, DC based think tank that seeks to advance responsible data practices. The forum is led by Internet privacy expert Jules Polonetsky, a frequent CLBR guest.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Stan Stahl, President of Citadel Information Group and the Los Angeles chapter of the Information Security Systems Association (ISSA-LA),returns for the 7th Time to give us an update of the state of cyber security today from Sony to Washington and even Sacramento where he is part of the Cyber Security Task Force.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Serial Entreprenuer Jon Ferrara returns to CLBR to discuss his emerging startup Nimble. Nimble is a highly rated CRM tool. John will explain the value of Nimble and Social Selling.Robert Ellis Smith, the Privacy Paragon from Providence and fellow Hoya Lawya, returns to discuss the latest privacy developments including: President Obamas Privacy Initiatives; Californias Eraser Law that went into effect this month; and Privacy Concerns over the Internet of Things.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mark Sableman is a partner in Thompson Coburns Intellectual Property group. He is the editorial director of Internet Law Twists andTurns and discusses with Bennet Kelleyhis recent article The Top 5 Internet Law Shifts of 2014.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rutgers political science professor Ross K Baker talks to Bennet abouthis new book: Is Bipartisanship Dead?: A Report from the Senate. Baker interviewed both Democrat and Republican Senators about bipartisanship in Senate committees and on the Senate floor analyzing the role of party leaders and their impact on supporting or discouraging cross party efforts. Also, Bennet discusesTax Loopholes and Shelters with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist David Cay Johnston.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

New York Times bestselling author and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of Kings life, revealing the ministers trials and tribulations in Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs Final Year. Plus, Bennet speaks aboutInternet Hate with Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The ALS Icebucket Challenge, #ICANTBREATHE, The Sony Hack, Gamergate, the Facebook Human Experiments are just some the things discussed in our end of year light-hearted review of the heroes and zeros of the year. Bennet welcomes to discuss Yahoo tech columnist Dan Tynan and counsel at TroyGould and Contributing Editor at The Hollywood Reporter Jonathan Handel.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet welcomes Emily Parker, the author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground. She is also the formerState Department policy advisor, writer at The Wall Street Journal and editor atThe New York Times,.Also, Bennet welcomes Award-Winning Content Creator Obie Scott Wade, the author of the childrens best selling book Oddry thehit animated TV series SheZowAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Uber has been subjected to much scrutiny, after its senior vice-president of business, Emil Michael, was said to have suggested that critical journalists should have their own personal and family lives investigated. Bennet runs through all of the media criticism being made.Ryan Scott introduces us to Causecast, an online system that helps businesses and organizations manage community giving, employee volunteering, donations, matching, rewarding and cause campaigns ranging from disaster relief to competitive corporate crowdfunding.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Its CLBRs Annual Cyber Thanksgiving Show andevery year we ask some of our favorite guests to share with us the websites and apps they are particularly thankful for. This years panel features old friends Chris Abraham, Pete Kronowitt (a veteran of our past two Thanksgiving shows), Benet Wilson.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Reports say an agency of the U.S. Justice Department is gathering data from thousands of cell phones, including both criminal suspects and innocent Americans, by using fake communications towers on airplanes. Andrew Rosenblum from Popular Science fills us in from his September article.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Net Neutrality Heats Up as President Obama has came out strongly for the concept of net neutrality, saying that an open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life.Plus, we discuss Free Press in the Digital Age and the Battle over Whistleblowers as Bennet interviews Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, a journalist, researcher, and free expression advocate from the Committee to Protect Journalists.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Election 2014 The Results Are In What Does it Mean? CLBR offer its 2014 Mideterm Election Edition as Bennet offers his Take Post Mortem and gets some Quick Thoughts From Reliable Sources with Mike O Neil of O Neil and Associates and Lara M Brown, an associate professor who serves as the program director for the Political Management Program in The Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at The George Washington University.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Internet Privacy as Bennet speaks with Lorrie Cranor, Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler. He discusses how government should view privacy and the Internet, from location tracking to hacking, data safety and data breaches to cyberbullying.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We discuss internet governance with Eric Jardine of theCentre for International Governance Innovation in Toronto, Canada. Eric is one of the publishers of CIGIs blog Reimaging The Internet which discusses current events, trends and challenges in the realm of Internet governanceAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

 As ICANN meets in Los Angeles for its tri-annual meeting, issues of the proposed ICANN transfer and ICANN’s accountability itself loom large.  Steve DelBianco, an occasional ICANN critic and CLBR veteran is at ICANN 51 and will give us an update.  But first we hear from professor Marc Randazza about his eloquent blog statement in response to GamerGate and death threats made against feminist filmmaker Anita Sarkeesian.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Author Paul Barrett discusses his new book, The Law of the Jungle – a cautionary tale about our legal system. Law of the Jungle is the  story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor  farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses The Cost of NSA Surveillance with Danielle Kehl of the New America Foundation. Plus, Understanding the Recent Protests in Hong Kong as we hear from Sharon Hom from Human Rights in China.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Digital Legal Aid For Creators And Mayhem as Bennet welcomes Art Neill, the founder of New Media Rights, which practices public interest law in the areas of internet, intellectual property, and communications law. Also, a Kashmir Hill article discussing Modeling Website Didnt Warn Users Rapists Were Preying On Them.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS Act which had several provisions designed to spur crowdfunding, from changing rules for advertising and solicitation of private investment offerings and allowing companies to raise up to 1 Million dollars through crowdfunding platforms. Crowdfunder Vice President James Richardson discusses the growth of crowdfunding in the US and worldwide and the impact of the JOBS Act changes.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Scott Zucker, former Assistant Managing Editor of USA Today Sports joins us to celebrate our 150th episode with a discussion on the latest in sports and a preview of the 2014 NFL Football Season.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Revenge Porn and Cyber Abuse roundtable discussion with Bekah Wells (Revenge Porn Victims Advocate and Owner of WomenAgainstrevengePorn.com), Hollie Toups (a Victim of Revenge Porn) and her legal representation assisting Hollie in her claim, Beaumont, Texas-based attorney John S. Morgan. Houston attorney David Altenbern talks about his multi-million dollar revenge porn lawsuit representing Meryam Ali, a Texas woman suing Facebook to pay her 123 million dollars.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Battle Over Muni Broadband and the Race for Floridas 10th Congressional District as Bennet speaks with Jim Baller (of the Coalition for Local Internet Choice) and Michael Mac McKenna (the Democratic Nominee for Florida’s 10th Congressional District). The Coalition for Local Internet Choice is based on 3 principles: The Internet is Essential 21st Century Infrastructure; Local Communities are the LIfeblood of America; and Communities Must Be Able to Make their Own Choices. The race for Congress is heating up and we hear from McKenna who has knocked on over 50,000 doors in his race to unseat Tea Party Republican Dan Webster.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Performance Marketers Under Attack From Amazon Tax as Brian Littleton, ShareASale Founder and CEO, has become the leader of the Performance Marketing Association (PMA).  He gives us an update on the Amazon Wars and the PMAs New Priorities. Plus, Patent and Intellectual Property Attorney Joel Voelzke chimes in on the Supreme Courts Latest Patent Rulings.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Delphine Halgand, the Director of the Washington DC office for Reporters Without Borders, returns to talk about Global Press Freedom and increased restrictions on bloggers. They discuss the 2014 Press Freedom Report, Chinas Tiananmen Square crackdown and Russias New Blogger Crackdown.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking The Right to be Forgotten as Privacy rock star Jules Polenetsky returns to discuss the EUs recent right to be forgotten ruling.Also, Houston attorney David Altenbern talks about his multi-million dollar revenge porn lawsuit representing Meryam Ali, a Texas woman suing Facebook to pay her 123 million dollars —10 cents for each of its 1.23 billion users — because the social networking site failed to immediately delete revenge porn uploaded by a former friend.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Global Average Connection Speeds and Global Broadband Connectivity, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack Traffic and Mobile Connectivity are just some the issues highlighted by David Belson, the Senior Director of Industry and Data Intelligence at Akamai Technologies and the editor of the State of the Internet Report.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with Internet Karl Kronenberger of San Francisco-based Kronenberger Rosenfeld, whose firm recently prevailed on behalf of its client in a putative class action alleging violations of California’s spam law. Plus, Bennet Kelley is Named One of Most Influential E-Commerce Lawyers By the LA Business Journal; New head of DOJ criminal unit to emphasize cybercrime; Daniel Noriega sues Activision on Right of Publicity Claim.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In Gunfight at the OK Corral, a U.S. Marshal from the prairie is called to Arizona to help his brother stand his ground against a band of cattle thieves. The character is an American archetype that is alive and well in the last untamed frontier — the Internet.Ben Smith, District Attorney for Sac County, Iowa is a modern Wyatt Earp. Unlike Gunfight, he was not summoned to Arizona, but rather Arizona came to him when Tempe-based RipOffReport.com and others sought to exploit a pending murder trial as part of a proxy war against an Internet security expert seeking to expose them. Also, Genevieve Dennis, founder and director of Easy Name Change, introduces us to her website that makes name changing easy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with Former high-level National Security Agency intelligence official William Binney following his trip to Germany for a parliamentary inquiry in Berlin into the NSAs activities. William discusses the creation of his new Government Accountability Project supported whistleblower website, how he blew the whistle on NSA surveillance programs plus his outspoken criticism of the NSA during the George W. Bush administration that made him the subject of FBI investigations.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Half-Baked Security Of Our Internet Of Things as Bennet welcomes back Forbes senior editor Kashmir Hill. Plus, hear the story of a couple Torn Between Two World Cup Teams as Joe Brinker and Isabelle De Ruyt share their reactions watching the World Cup 2014 Round of 16 matchup featuring their respective home countries, United States and Belgium.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kevin Zeese from Popular Resistance, Its Our Economy are spearheading the Camp Out to Save Net Neutrality or Peoples Firewall FCC Camp (aka Occupy FCC) to protest the FCC’s failure to push for Net Neutrality.Also, Attorney Karl Kronenberger Discusses Summary Judgment his firm had  Against Professional Spam Plaintiff Timothy Dewitt, and the US Supreme Court hands down descisions on Aereo and Cell Phone Privacy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Canada’s spam law, which was passed in 2010, finally goes into effect on July 1st. David Elder of Stikeman Elliot talks to us from Ottawa to explain the new law.Plus, US Trademark Appeals Board Cancels Redskins Trademark, Sixth Circuit Reverses Judgment Against the Dirt, British Columbia Court Orders Google to Block Sites Worldwide and Canadian Supreme Court Upholds Web Users PrivacyAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The decision of the Obama administration to move forward with a plan to transition the U.S.’s oversight role over ICANN to some other entity has sparked a political backlash that is eerily reminiscent of the Republican opposition to the Panama Canal Treaty that transferred control of the canal to Panama.Bennet speaks with Cameron Kerry, former General Counsel of the Department of Commerce and now at the Brookings Institute about what exactly this transition means and the politics of the move.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses Corporate governance expert talks about the OKCupid-Mozillla war and when politics enters the boardroom with  Charles Elson, the  Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance Professor of Finance Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate GovernanceAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses  talk about Green Tech, Silicon Valley and Washington with Jim Hurd, Founder of the Green Science Exchange and a prominent Silicon Valley Insider, plus we learn howe the radio program has been rewarded with a nomination from the Los Angeles Press Club for the Southern California Journalism Awards in the category of Talk Radio – Public Affairs broadcast.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

International Tax Attorney/Author Cym Lowell Donates All of Book Proceeds to Soldiers Angels Wounded Warrior Charity in a program entitled Operation: Next Chapter. Cym recently penned his fiorst fictional novel entitled  Jaspars War which wondrously chronicles one brave and desperate woman's attempts to escape a Kafka-esque nightmare.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with the candidates vying for the 33rd United States Congressional District seat in California. Hespeaks one-on-one with four of the leading candidates (Elan Carr, David Kanuth, State Senator Ted Lieu, and Marianne Williamson) seeking to replace the retiring Representative Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with the candidates vying for the 33rd United States Congressional District seat in California. He speaks one-on-one with four of the leading candidates (Elan Carr, David Kanuth, State Senator Ted Lieu, and Marianne Williamson) seeking to replace the retiring Representative Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills). We also hear from veteran Southern California political analyst Coby King of High Point Strategies LLC about the debate and the state of the race.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Las Vegas-based First Amendment attorney and is the managing partner of the Randazza Legal Group Marc Randazza Explains his CNN.com piece on What happened to LA Clippers basketball owner Donald Sterling was morally wrong. He explains how hisrights were not violated in scandal, and howGovernment isnt punishing speech, he says, but Sterlings ideas failed in marketplace.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Supreme Court Reflections on the case involvingevery major broadcasting company against a start-up technology company Aereo Inc. that allows subscribers to record and watch live TV broadcast programs over the Internet. Jonathan Handel, entertainment attorney at TroyGould and contributing editor at The Hollywood Reporter discusses the case.JusticesScalia, Ginsburg Hint on NSA Review; Supremes Weight Cell Phone Searches with veteran Georgia-based attorney Edwin Marger.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Stan Stahl, President of Citadel Information Systems, returns to discuss The latest Cyber Security issues Cyber Security Update: Inching Towards Market Incentives FTC Announces Mobile App Security Consent Decrees and the upcoming ISSA-LA Information Security Summit VI which is the premier information security event in Los AngelesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

OnRoute Digital Media President/Co-Founder Shane Bogardus joins us from Syracuse to discuss his company’s taking home the top prize at AdTech San Francisco. A Tribute Song for Boston Marathon Victims as we remember Boston and its Heroes with Mark Platt on the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Robert Ellis Smith from Privacy Journal returns to discuss privacy and data security with major developments on both the data security front with: the FTC’s defeating Wyndham hotel’s challenge to its authority in data security matters; and the FTC announcing consent decrees with Fandango and Credit Karma over their mobile app’s failure to properly implement SSL.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

April Fools,  Updates on ICANN, Net Neutrality and Other News as Bennet welcomes Award-winning technology journalist and now Technology Columnist at Yahoo, Dan Tynan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Shooting the Bitcoin and ICANN Globalization as Bennet discusses The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Currencies like Bitcoin with Pace University Law Professor David Cohen. Plus, we learn why the US is set to Give ICANN Its Independence and University of Miami Professor Michael Froomkin Tell Us What it Means.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney Karl Kronenberger Discusses Landmark Revenge Porn Verdict as A jury in Santa Clara Superior court returned a verdict for the plaintiff in a landmark “Revenge Porn” case on February 18, awarding 250,000 dollars  in damages to the plaintiff.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Whats Next For Net Neutrality?  What does the DC Circuit Court Opinion Mean Going Forward? Bennet speaks  with Timothy Kerr, the  Senior Director of Strategy with Free Press.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Best-Kept Secrets About Startups as we talk about start ups, innovation and Silicon Beach with a true visionary and startup veteran, Tom Nora.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Is The Clock Ticking on essociates Patent Lawsuits? Ben Davidson of the Davidson Law Group talks about the recent associate cases, patent reform legislation and what to expect from the Supreme Court.  Ben was recently interviewed by the Los Angeles Daily Journal about how 2011 America Invents Act has reshaped patent challenges.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

New Filmmakers LA Executive Director Larry Laboe and a New York Heartbeat producer Laura Davis join us to discuss the Kickstarter phenomenon and the upcoming premier of NYHB.  Also. Bennet remembers  the 3rd anniversary of the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CLBR 2013 Year in Review From the NSA to the Dunkin Donuts Rant Lady. Plus a discussion on who were the Cyber Heroes and Zeroes of 2013 as Bennet speaks with Ian Ballon (Greenberg Traurig and Author of the leading treatise on Internet Law) and Evan Brown (Co-Host of TwiL: This Week in Law, the Publisher of Internet Cases and Senior Counsel for InfoLaw Group).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

As Los Angeles explores becoming the biggest city to become a Gigabit City, we will talk with Steve Reneker, the city’s General Manager of the city’s Information Technology Agency about the Los Angeles initiative.  Then we will talk with David Sandel on Giganomics and the State of the Gig Union.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Will Antigua Become a Haven for Online Piracy with Joseph Kelly , Professor of Business Law at State College at Buffalo. Plus, The Supreme Court Refuses to Hear New York Amazon Tax, Returning Focus to Congress as we hear from Rebecca Madigan,  executive director of the Performance Marketing Association.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CLBR Thanksgiving Edition as Bennet welcomes back  Brenda Christensen, Peter Kronowitt and Dan Tynan.  This panel of experts  talk about what websites or Apps or even people, events, groups and organizations they are thankful for on the web for what they have contributed.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Andrew Crocker, a fellow with the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( or EFF), joins us to provide an update on the ever expanding National Security Agency domestic surveillance scandal. The EFF has been one of the most vocal critics of the program and has been actively fighting it in the courts.Thanks to our Miami Book Fair International coverage, Bennet also speaks to Michael Grunwald, the author of “The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Administration”. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pulitzer Prize-winning author (and featured Miami Book Fair 2013 speaker)  Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about her new book Bully Pulpit, LBJ, journalism today and the Red Sox. Also,  Ralph Hallow, the Chief Political Writer for the Washington Times, Conservative Columnist of the Year recipient and author of the humorous Presidential Follies: Famous Americans Who WouldAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On Location from the Information Systems Security Association SoCal Security Symposium, Bennet speaks with: ISSA President Powell Hamilton; David M. Perry, Computer Security Expert, Media Relations discussing Cyber Crime and Cyber Security; Comodo Corporate Strategy Advisor Larry Whiteside.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Amazon Tax, Cyber Bullying and the World Series as Bennet welcomes back Rebecca Madigan from the Performance Marketing Association to discuss Illinois Supreme Court ruling invalidating Amazon Tax. Also Bennet welcomes Viviana Vasiu, an honor student at Stetson University, who has formed an advocacy organization fighting against cyber harassment. She is working with leading national advocates such as Jayne Hitchcock of Working to Halt Online Abuse to raise awareness on the Stetson campus which last year lost a student to cyber bullycideAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

California Privacy Legislation passed: Internet Eraser Law For Teenagers and Opt Out of Online Tracking. California governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill changing the way websites deal with Internet users under the age of 18, and will soon sign a bill that would require websites to tell all Internet users if and how they can opt out of online tracking. Bennet speaks with Harriet Pearson from Hogan Lovells talking from IAPP Privacy Academy in Seattle about the flurry of privacy legislation being enacted in California.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

ICANN Turns 15 and Bennet talks to John Jeffrey, Esq., ICANNs General Counsel and Secretary from ICANNs Los Angeles Headquarters. Californias Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has adopted a proposal that would require either reporting payments made to bloggers or disclosing that payments were made in conjunction with the blog or video post. The proposal is based largely on the FTC approach to Dotcom Disclosures and blogger endorsements. Revisit a Blogging Disclosures Discussion with Ann Ravel, chairwoman of the Fair Political Practices Commission.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

NSA Blowback for US Business with Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Senior Analyst Dan Castro and Award-winning columnist Dan Tynan. It has been five months since Edward Snowden and NSA operations such as PRISM first splashed across the front pages worldwide. During this period, the scope of the scandal has only grown through nearly weekly revelations of further NSA transgressions. While the golden rule of scandal management is prompt and full disclosure, the NSA scandal presents a challenge because of the classified nature of much of the information. As a result, the scandal has dragged on and in the process has eroded consumer confidence in the web and harmed US web enterprises.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

For most of us, it began as a day like any other. How could we have known that September morning that the Gates of Hell had opened and by sundown we would see the absolute worst and best in mankind? The enormity of devastation and shock to us as a nation have made it difficult to articulate what that dark Tuesday meant. Today we bring in past guests and some new ones to reflect on that day of infamy and what it means today. Guests today include past guests Chris Abraham, Russ Burgos along with new guests Mark Davidson (Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy) and Dimitri Nionakis (Former Associate White House Counsel).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rebecca Madigan, Executive Director of the Performance Marketing Association discusses breaking developments on the Amazon Tax Wars. Anthony Todaro of Seattles Corr Cronin discusses his winning a dismissal of Spam Arrest novel lawsuit. Plus we celebrate the founding of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers in 1781.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CLBR Special Travel Edition with regular contributors to the Huffington Post Andr Vaucher and Ben Wilson , plus news on Peace California Personal Privacy Ballot Initiative, White House Copyright Green Paper and Cyber Security IncentivesAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet hosts a Revenge Porn and Cyber Abuse roundtable discsussion with Bekah Wells (Revenge Porn Victims Advocate and Owner of WomenAgainstrevengePorn.com), Hollie Toups (a Victim of Revenge Porn) and her legal representation assisting Hollie in her claim, Beaumont, Texas-based attorney John S. Morgan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Internet Hate and Incitement to Terror as Bennet speaks to Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance. Rabbi Abraham, an international authority on issues related to digital hate and the Internet., speaks out following the wave of social fallout following the verdict involving George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Having just passed the midpoint for 2013, we are bringing back frequent guests Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen to reprise our Heroes and Zeroes segment where we talk about the top news stories for 2013 so far identify heroes, zeroes and websites and resources we have discovered of late.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Silicon Beach Fest 2013 Recap with Forbes columnist Lori Kozlowskil; Bennet also goes over PRISM/Snowden Update (as Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed PRISM, has left Hong Kong for Moscow and is now receiving aid from WikiLeaks) and DC Voting Reminder.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing Google and its distancing National Security Administrations controversial Prism data mining program, their request for permission to publish FISA requests and Cyber Security with National Security Expert Russ Burgos. Also, Bennet gives us the latest details regarding the the Utah CAN-SPAM ruling in Zoobuh.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kirch Buchner from NotinHallofFame.com‎ tells us about his popular blog that covers those on the outside looking in for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, NASCAR and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.They discuss the latest class of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame and Nirvana has yet to be inducted. On the sports side there are a number of glaring omissions from Ray Guy – who was universally considered the best punter of his time if not ever – but the hall has never enshrined a punter. Other greats from baseball such as Luis Tiant and Jack Morris, basketball great Sean Kemp and hockey greats Rogie Vachon and Curt Bennett.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The State of Cyber Security; Information System Security Association Los Angeles Findings; Role of Insurance in Cyber Security as Bennet discusses with Stan Stahl (Ph.D. Principal, Citadel Information Group) and Matthew D. Carlson (CIC , Vice President for Risk Strategies Company).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marketplace Fairness Act Debate pairing Rebecca Madigan of the Performance Marketing Association and Steve DelBianco from Internet advocacy organization NetChoice, plus Ken White aka Popehat (criminal defense lawyer with Brown, White and Newhouse) returns to discuss sanctions on copyright troll.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Need to Suspend ISPs That Use Data Caps as non-profit Washington, D.C.-based public interest group Public Knowledge is calling on all ISPs who use data caps to suspend them until an outside auditor can certify that their data usage meters are accurate. ISPs have no business imposing data caps on consumers without the ability to accurately determine how much data consumers are actually using. We get an explanation with Michael Weinberg, Vice President at Public Knowledge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Tax Loopholes and Shelters with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist David Cay Johnston, author of Author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich and Cheat Everyone Else, Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With the Bill and The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use Plain English to Rob You Blind.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Amazon New York Tax Law Decision has been made as New York will continue to collect sales tax from out-of-state retailers that have affiliates operating within state boundaries. We learn about the details as Bennet speaks with Matt Schaefer, a partner with the law firm of Brann and Isaacson.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking StartUp Day on Capitol Hill, aimed at showing lawmakers that startups are creating jobs all across the country and spurring economic growth across many sectors of the economy. Michael McGeary, the co-founder and Chief Political Strategist of Engine Advocacy, fills us in.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mobile App Privacy and Protection when its comes to protecting consumers and kids as Bennet speaks with Robert Ellis Smith, noted privacy expert and publisher of the Privacy Journal.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Online Gambling Resurgence in America with American Gaming Association President and CEO Frank Fahrenkopf, plus Enemies of the Internet with Reporters Without Borders Washington DC Director Delphine Halgand.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Facebook Data Is Greater Than The Sum Of Your Likes , Broken Internet, Banana Endorsements, Dan Aykroyd and the Big East with journalist, television and radio commentator Dan Tynan. Plus, FTC Updates Dot Com Disclosure Guidelines, FTC Launches Crackdown on Bogus Text Message Prize Offers and Googles Latest Privacy Settlement; EU Rejects Ban on all Porn.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Daniel Nazer, Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s intellectual property team, discusses the EFFs fight for legislation to counter patent trolls. Plus, Startup expert Tom Nora gives us his impressions on what is hot at SXSW Interactive.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Veteran CLBR guest Stan Stahl returns to explain what is going on and what is or should be done about it. They discuss the major Cyber Attacks against the U.S. and U.S. businesses from Iran and China and of an emerging marketplace for Cyber Crime in Russia. Also, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-Dc) reflects On The 212th Anniversary Of The Disenfranchisement Of Washington Residents.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

With The Rise of Co-Working Office Spaces, what makes these coworking spaces so attractive and how the contrast from the traditional office. Bennet speaks with two co-working occupants, Jason Saltzman (the Founder of Alley NYC) and Justin Massion (Founder of Jam Studios).Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mobile Privacy Initiatives as Bennet speaks with Jules Polonetsky, the Director/Co-Chair for the Future of Privacy Forum. Plus, discussion EU and US: A Growing Continental Divide on Privacy with Phil Lee, a Partner in the Privacy and Information Law Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

David Sandel, founder of the Gigabit City Challenge, talks about the introduction of ultra-broadband technologies in Kansas City and elsewhere and whether we can meet FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski challenge of a gigabit city in all 50 states by 2015. Plus, Bennet discusses Planet Blue Coat, Internet Censorship and Dual Purpose Technology with Sarah McKune, Senior Researcher at The Citizen Lab.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Top Cybercrime expert and victims advocate Jayne Hitchcock joins Bennet to discuss her new acclaimed book True Crime Online: Shocking Stories of Scamming, Stalking, Murder and Mayhem. Bennet covers the Manti Te’o controversy, Internet Freedom Day and the fallout from the Aaron Swartz tragedy; plus we remember Georgetowns 224th birthday and the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Aaron Swartz, an internet legend who had not yet reached his 27th birthday, committed suicide as he faced a felony trial over his accessing and downloading 4 million academic articles from JSTOR via MITs network. Matt Neco returns to CLBR to discuss the tragedy and controversy surrounding his prosecution.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet recaps his New Media Expo panel presentation on The Changing Legal Landscape For Bloggers, plus he fills us on the latest news regarding the ongoing Righthaven lawsuit and we learn about the biggest domain sales in 2012.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Previewing New Media Expo 2013 in Las Vegas ,where Bennet will speak on the panel Blog Wars: The Changing Legal Landscape For Bloggers, as well as Entertainment and Media Lawyer Gordon Firemark. Gordon will speak on Ten legal cases every podcaster, blogger or media producer should know about.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing the Debacle in Dubai involving the ITUs Internet Power Grab with the U.S. Representative for the Dubai Chamber, Jessica Wasserman. Plus, the Co-founder of eSarcasm Dan Tynan and Brenda Christensen from Nimble discuss who are their Heroes and Zeroes for 2012.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Forbes Not-So Private Parts Blogger Kashmir Hill returns to CLBR to talk about the top Cyber stories and Cyber Person of the Year. Marc Randazza, of the Las Vegas-based Randazza Legal Group, returns to CLBR to talk about his latest case in which he is taking on an even bigger opponent – actress Zhang Ziyi (and the Chinese Government) in her defamation case against Boxun blogger Watson Meng (who appeared on CLBR on October 3rd) – who CLBR has dubbed Chinas Public Frenemy #1.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Preventing the United Nations from having power to regulate online content is the focus as Phil Corwin, Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, returns to discuss with Bennet the controversy over the upcoming 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications organized by the International Telecommunications Union.Plus, Big Data and its increased scrutiny by both Congress and the FTC as we hear from Bill Sullivan, Vice President and General Manager for Public Sector for Informatica.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler. Gansler discusses how government should view privacy and the Internet, from location tracking to hacking, data safety and data breaches to cyberbullying. Also, we hear from about the best new websites and apps for 2012 from Technophiles Peter Kronowitt from Intel and Marc Danziger from Charmed Particles.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses cyber crime in Russia with Rik Ferguson, the Director of Security Research and Communication at Trend Micro. Trend Micro has released a report providing an overview of the cyber crime services and prices offered by the Russian underground revealing a vibrant community of never-do-wells offering every conceivable service at dirt-cheap prices.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2012 Presidential Election Insights and Aftermath as Bennet speaks with Mike O' Neil from national public opinion research firm O'Neil Associates. Bennet also tells us about being in Florida for the week before the election and how he saw first hand some of the long lines and other issues that needlessly plagued voting in Florida this year.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing How Zappos User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked in which the court refused as Bennet speaks with Attorney Eric Goldman, the founder of the Tertium Quid Blog ... a new blog on the Forbes platform that discusses Internet law, IP and advertising law. Plus, Bennet speaks with Hadar Paz, the North America Chief Executive Officer of inside, the worlds first Real-Time Online Customer Management Solution that changes everything. For the first time, retailers can view their online store or website in real time.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cyber Bullying Awareness And The Tragedy Of Amanda Todd as Bennet talks to Cyber Crime Expert Jayne Hitchcock from Halt Online Abuse about the Amanda Todd suicide and bullycide.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

American University Professor Patricia Aufderheide discusses the application of Fair Use to the web. Also, Bennet discusses Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Tess Cacciatore Cofounder and COO of the GWEN Network.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet talks to Watson Meng, the publisher of the Chinese citizen journalism website Boxun. Boxun is best known for unbiased articles (in some cases from anonymous sources) and are currently in the midst of a lawsuit for reporting how Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi was caught in an adulterous affair.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Forbes Not-So Private Parts Blogger Kashmir Hill returns to CLBR to talk about the top Cyber stories and Cyber Person of the Year. Marc Randazza, of the Las Vegas-based Randazza Legal Group, returns to CLBR to talk about his latest case in which he is taking on an even bigger opponent – actress Zhang Ziyi (and the Chinese Government) in her defamation case against Boxun blogger Watson Meng (who appeared on CLBR on October 3rd) – who CLBR has dubbed Chinas Public Frenemy #1.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How the city of Chattanooga Tennessee Transformed Itself into Americas First Gig City is a recent ReadWriteWeb article, and Bennet speaks with the author David Strom. We also hear from Kathleen Unger, from the Los Angeles office of Freeman, Freeman & Smiley, LLP, and the President of VoteRiders, a non-partisan organization whose mission is to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their right to vote.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing how the California Spam Law declared unconstitutional as preempted by Federal law with Leeor Neta, the Assistant Director for Public Interest Programs from theGolden Gate University School of Law. Plus, Jillian York, the Director of International Freedom of Expression for the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses Googles decision to block access to the trailer for the controversial (and extremely bad) film The Innocence of Muslims.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rebecca Madigan from the Performance Marketing Association joins Bennet again to discuss the Amazon Tax and its upcoming implementation in California and Pennsylvania. Stan Stahl, President of Citadel Information Systems, returns to discuss the latest Cyber Security issues including the recent hacking of popular web hosting site GoDaddy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Democratic and GOP Convention Platforms On Internet Issues as Bennet speaks with Republican Political Consultant Blake Waycaster of Atlanta-based Centennial Strategies joins us to discuss the Democratic and Republican party platforms on Internet issues. Plus, Bennet reports on his recent trip as part of a 3-city tour of the US-China Legal Exchange.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet gives us a Broadband Deployment Update, plus we discuss The Intersection Of Social Media And Reputation Management with the Team Lead of Special Projects at Reputation.com, Chris Abraham.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking The 1972 Munich Olympics: Tragedy and Controversy 40 Years Later. Bennet speaks exclusively with one of the 1972 U.S. Olympic teammates, whose experience was overshadowed by the Massacre in Munich and the controversial gold medal mens basketball game... retired NBA professional basketball player, Rhodes Scholar, and former U.S. Congressman Tom McMillen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Crowdsourcing with GeniusRocket President Peter Lamotte, and ESPN.com Poker analyst Gary Wise on DOJ Online Gambling Settlement whereby two overseas online poker firms settled their money laundering charges for 731 million dollars.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Internet Gun Sales and the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater Shooting with the Curator of the Cherokee Heritage Center and Gun Historian David Kennedy. We also get a HostingCon 2012 Boston recap with returning guest, DC-based Internet Attorney David Snead.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses Internet Voting with the CEO of Open Voting Consortium Alan Dechert, plus Hawaii Rep. Kymberly Pine comments on Hawaiis New Cyber Crime LawsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing the FunnyJunk lawsuit vs.TheOatmeal.com as Bennet welcomes LA criminal defense lawyer Kenneth White (aka Popehat). Kevin Winston, the founder of Digital LA, Explains Why Los Angeles aka Silicon Beach has become a new Hub for Start Ups.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

News Update on NY Bully Law, UN Agenda for Internet and Kickstarter Cyber Harassment and Microsoft IE10 Do Not Track. Bennet then speaks with a couple of movie producers. Producer Tianna Brown discusses movie project The Treatment now seeking funding on Kickstarter. Sonicsgate producer Adam Brown talks about making film in response to the franchise move of the NBAs Seattle Supersonics to Oklahoma City.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing the Silicon Valley-DC Divide with Nigel Cameron CEO of C-PET Also, Bennet discusses the ICANN gTLD announcement with David Mitnick, the Founder and President of DomainSkate and company COO Howard Greenstein.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking EU Cookie Rule and if the EU plans to create a cyber Berlin wall when it comes to e-commerce with Chris Babel, CEO of TRUSTe, and Robert Ellis Smith with Privacy Journal.Bennet also talks about he Vote From Facebooks Data Usage Policy with the Co-Founder at eSarcasm, Dan Tynan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Steve DelBianco, Executive Director of NetChoice, discusses the FTC Workshop on Updating the Dotcom Disclosures. Also, Ann Ravel, Chairwoman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, discusses political blogger disclosures.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Legal legend Charles Nesson the founder of the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society and lawyer for Joel Tenenbaum speaks about the RIAA pursuit of 675,000 dollars in damages for downloading 30 songs and the Supreme Courts refusal to intervene. Plus, we hear from Raven Brooks, the executive director of Netroots Foundation and the upcoming Netroots Nation event coming to Providence, Rhode Island.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A practice that was once employed by the Maryland Department of Corrections is now banned state-wide, as Marylands Governor signed legislation prohibiting employers from request[ing] or requir[ing] that at an employee or applicant disclose [any] means for accessing a personal account or service through an electronic communications device. Californias Assembly unanimously passed similar legislation this week and legislation is pending in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and in Congress.We hear from Adam Keigwin, the Chief of Staff, Office of Senator Leland Yee from the California State Senate whose office opposes the issue.The news that the FTC would conduct an antitrust review of the 1 billion dollar Facebook-Instagram acquisition puts Facebook in the spotlight as they join Microsoft, Google and Intel as tech giants who have been subject of intense antitrust scrutiny. Bennet welcomes David Balto, who has practiced antitrust law for over 20 years in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and in private practice.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses the 2011 State of Security Survey with Liam O Murchu, the Manager, North American Operations for Symantec Security Technology and Response. Plus Amazon Tax Decision; China Internet Crackdown; Domain Seizures; MySpace Consent Decree; Google Fine; Kickstarter 9 Million Dollar Watch in the news update.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mobile Payments, CISPA Update, Net Lobbying and Internet Hall of Fame are all discussed with solutions architect Andrew Pope and Washington lobbyist Jessica Wasserman of Wasserman and Associates.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Josh Levy from Free Press talks about CISPA and Stop Cyber Spying Week. Rebecca Wilkins from Citizens for Tax Justice joins Bennet to discuss Corporate Tax Dodgers including none other than Apple Computers. Plus, Today in history which includes the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the worlds longest baseball game played in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet focuses on internet taxation and the recent decision in Colorado overturning the states variation of the Amazon tax law. He speaks with Senior Vice President, Government Affairs of the DMA Jerry Cerasale, and executive director of the Performance Marketing Association. CLBR regular, champion cat herder Rebecca Madigan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Crowd-Funding and The Jobs Act as Congress Has Passed Legislation To Permit Start-ups To Use Crowd-funding To Raise Equity. Our Panel Of Experts Will Walk Us Through The Business And Legal Considerations In The Cloud.CircleUp CEO and Founder Ryan Caldback leads off with the general discussion of crowd funding and what the bill means for it. Filmmaker Dan Abrams gives us a first person point of view when it comes to film fundingAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet talks to the principal drafter of the report entitled Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change, Peder Magee. They discuss the details of the online privacy and personal data mining report that the Federal Trade Commission, to provide best practices and recommendations for government and technology leaders alike.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cyber Privacy Bill of Rights, a new Presidential bill that will cover your right to personal data control online, is explained by Interactive Advertising Bureau SVP and General Counsel Mike Zaneis. We also learn about the World Day Against Cyber Censorship with Delphine Halgand, the Washington DC Director for Reporters Without Borders.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Anti-spam lawyer Tim Walton discusses his victory in Trancos v. Balsam, whereby a California state appeals court ruled that federal law does not supersede the states anti-spam law. Also John Nicholson, Attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, discussed pending Cyber Security legislation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Googles product privacy policy changes, which go into effect March 1 despite protestations from regulators, consolidates product privacy rules from some 60 Web services, such as search, YouTube and Google Maps, under one umbrella policy. Bennet explains the eminent impact.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses the Latest Google Controversies with Robert Ellis Smith of Privacy Journal. Tim Parilla also joins us to discuss the recent DOJ Opinion that green-lighted state online gaming operations in IL and NY and is now spurring activity in other states as well.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Global Protests over ACTA and Latest on Privacy as Bennet speaks with Techdirt CEO and founder Mike Masnick and American journalist, television and radio commentator Dan Tynan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Crisis PR with guest high tech corporate communications and public relations expert Brenda Christensen; ACTA protests lead EU Governments to suspend endorsement of the text; ILC Launches Hackex.org to Track Major Hacking and Cyber Attack Events.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Internet Vital Signs and Public Policies Impacting Domain Investors as comScore Media Evangelist Eli Goodman and Internet Commerce Association General Counsel Phil Corwin join Bennet in this special DomainFest Global themed episode.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussion of SOPA Post Mortem, Megaupload and US Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her Heartening Defense of Privacy with Eric Wilson from Engage.dc.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cyber Law Year in Review 2011 as Bennet takes a look back at the years top stories including SOPA, Righthaven, Amazon Tax, etc. Why they were important and what it means for 2012. Also Bennet explains what you should be doing to prepare for 2012.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we feature famed First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza to talk about putting the nail in copyright holding company Righthavens coffin.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Internet Attorney David Snead discusses the debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act , plus US Department of Housing and Urban Development veteran Steven Nesmith reveals how he was a part of an amazing moment in college basketball history.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pennsylvania Affiliate Nexus Tax Law is enacted as the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue asserted state law dating to 1971 requiring sellers who have sales agents or use warehouses in Pennsylvania to collect its sales tax on deliveries to Pennsylvania residents. Guest Rebecca Madigan, executive director of the Performance Marketing Association explains.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Mary Engle who directs the Federal Trade Commissions Division of Advertising Practices and is featured in the FTC videos explaining the endorsement guidelines. We will be talking about the recent Technorati State of the Blogosphere report which showed an alarming gap in compliance with the Endorsement Guidelines.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Lorrie Cranor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. We learn about her work on developing user-friendly methods of safeguarding privacy on the Internet and improving Web security.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet Kelley speaks with Peter C. Marinello, Director of the National Advertising Review Council (NARC) and its ecommerce self-reg program. Plus, CLBR continues its serial entrepreneur series with Mary Stevens-Heebner creator of Rebagz.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We revisit net neutrality as congressional republicans push for repeal of the FCCs Open Internet Order with net neutrality opponent Phil Kerpen, the vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and chairman of the Internet Freedom Coalition. We also review the state of the blogosphere in light of Technoratis latest survey.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DocStoc General Counsel joins us to discuss the latest court decisions including Yelps big victory and Righthaven in peril. With Guy Fawkes Day only 3 days away, we look at Anonymous’ threat to shut down Facebook and its latest target — the Mexican Drug Cartel.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We address the question of whether software should be tested for potential harms- some of which can be very serious even life threatening -with Walter O'Brien from Scorpion Computer Services. We also launch our non-profit series with a look at ProCon.org with Kamy Akhavan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Cyber Election Fraud in Rhode Island, Former US Representative Douglas Gablinske explains what happened. plus Amazon Sales Tax Dispute in Connecticut and the Massachusetts Net Neutrality Retreat.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Management Changes at Apple, Yahoo, HP; iPhone5 news are discussed with technology journalist Dan Tynan. Also Bennet is joined by Matt Wood from FreePress.net.and the Executive Director at Performance Marketing Association, Rebecca Madigan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

News headlines include: Borders Intellectual Property Sale Delayed By Privacy Issue; Shoe maker Reebok Settles FTC Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussion of Social Media and Labor Law with Andrew Slobodien, Labor and Employment Counsel for Leading Corporations and Partner - Labor, Employment and New Media at Wildman, Harrold, Allen and Dixon LLP.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week's Cyber Law & Business Report feautres Steve Haase from InsureTrust to discuss cyber insurance. Bennet also talks about Anonymous attacking SF BART, and lastly has an update from Mark Webb on the settlement with Match.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet's guest for today is Timothy Walton, a noted lawyer in the internet legal space regarding anti-spam litigation. Listen in as they talk about the successes and evolution of internet law.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In a video release, an anonymous voice says it will destroy Facebook on November 5 of this year. Bennet talks about that with Information Security Management expert Stan Stahl, PhD. Stan Stahl, PhD. Bennet welcomes returning guest Berin Szoka, the President and founder of TechFreedom.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet looks at the legal tech issues Congress will have to deal with following the summer recess. privacy watchdogs and lawmakers are stepping up, calling for laws that would require companies to stop the digital surveillance of consumers who don't want to be tracked. He also discusses the latest regarding new online gaming and poker legislation.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet is interviewing Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about ISP copyright enforcement via the graduated response process. We also hear from James O' Brien, the newly appointed Associate Publisher at Campaigns and Elections magazine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with guest Brian Benenhaley, co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of ReachSmart Interactive and the AdDrive Affiliate Network, and the two discuss the most common legal mistakes companies make, and how to avoid them.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet follows up on the Dot Com Disclosure Guidelines: Information about Online Advertising, discussion with attorney Jeff Greenbaum, plus the latest on the Amazon Tax Law situation in California.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

First up this week is the question on wether or not California will approve the "Amazon Tax", and Lisa Picarille gives Bennet an update on just what the current outlook is. In the second half of the show marketing legend Q gives insight into the "Law of Q" and how technology has evolved the advertising space since he began.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet brings on Jules Polonetsky, Co-Chair and Director at The Future of Privacy Forum to discuss just where your online privacy is going, how much control will you have, and how much will be out of the users hands.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses the Implications of a potential ATandT/T-Mobile Merger with, plus an interview with U.S. Rep Dana Rohrabacher, R-California about a Congressional Patent Bill Disguised as Bank Bailout.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with Trevor Hughes, the President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals or IAPP. They discuss privacy by design, do not track, and how businesses can reduce risk of privacy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet gives us details on a proposed bill in the California state would make social network settings private by default and give more control to parents. He also speaks with Gonzalo Arzuaga for Startups.com.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Public Knowledge 101 and Chattanooga, Tennessee, home the worlds fastest internet are featured with guests Michael Weinberg, Staff Attorney of Public Knowledge and Jed Marston, V.P. Marketing and Communications for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Fran Maier is the President and Executive Chair of the Board of TRUSTe, which helps thousands of businesses promote online safety and trust, and guides consumers to sites that protect their online privacy.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

San Francisco based attorney Mark Webb tells us about his work representing Carole Markin, the rape victim, then called Jane Doe, who was attacked by a sexual predator on Match.com. He discusses how he and his client pursued Match.com with legal action to force the worlds largest dating site to offer background checks.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussion on Domaining seizures and the latest news coming out of ICANN with Phil Corwin, Founding Principal at Virtualaw LLC and Counsel at Internet Commerce Association.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Discussing the Essociate Affiliate Patent with Intellectual Property Attorney Joel Voelzke. They discuss the terminology behind patenting and affiliate pooling.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bernet goes over the FTCs annual report and how to avoid being a target and Dan Tynan from eSarcasm.com is welcomed back to discuss the Internet saint and more.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet first speaks with Kurt Opsahl of Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the actions of Righthaven and their legal war on bloggers. Then with a slight shift he then speaks with William Powers, the best selling author or Hamlet's Blackberry about the act of Unconnecting in the Digital World.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet interviews Eric Goldman – Professor Santa Clara University School of Law, Director of the High Tech Law Institute and author of the book The End of Dazed and Confused in Search Marketing. Also, James Gannon from one of Canadas top law firms discusses Canadas new Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Information Security Pioneer Stan Stahl talks to Bennet about consumer awareness about security , plus we learn about his work at Citadel as well as his work with setting up teleconferencing at the White House.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Learn the latest about the Do Not Track Proposal with guests Christopher Calabrese iof the ACLU Legislative Counsel and TechFreedom President Berin Szoka. The new FTC proposal would give the public authority of their Web browsing habits, much like the Do Not Call list.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet discusses Fear of Twittering in Egypt with Jillian York, project coordinator of the OpenNet Initiative for the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, about the latest developments in Egypt and Tunisia and the role of the Internet in the groundswell in both movements.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with attorney Matthew P. Schaefer, who has successfully challenged the Colorado Tax Law, plus Bennet takes questions on taxes in Canada and online impostors on this Groundhog Day edition of CLBR!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Talking Amazon Tax with Rebecca Madigan from the Performance Marketing Association and Fiscal Crises with Michael Mazerov from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, plus news on the Colorado Amazon Tax litigation with Matt Schaefer from Brann and Isaacson.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with Christopher Olsen, the Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection to discuss the latest developments on privacy in Washington and Michael Roberts, founder of Rexxfield Reputation Management to discuss the emerging field of online reputation management.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bennet speaks with Christopher Olsen, the Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection to discuss the latest developments on privacy in Washington and Michael Roberts, founder of Rexxfield Reputation Management to discuss the emerging field of online reputation management.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy