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Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems Liberty by Design: An Internet Practitioner's Perspective by Alan Davidson, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy for Google, presents the annual Brunel Lecture, sponsored by MIT Engineering Systems Division. Abstract: The Internet stands out as an example of how the pace of technological change can create social and economic disruption and raise serious public policy issues, impacting personal privacy, free speech, and economic freedom. The value choices made in developing technological systems can themselves mitigate or exacerbate these policy impacts. This talk will look at how choices made in Google's product deployments over the last five years provide good examples of both. It will also attempt to draw lessons from these experiences, exploring the importance and limits of values-sensitive design in the Internet policy debate. About Alan Davidson: Davidson opened Google's Washington, D.C. office in 2005. He has written and spoken widely on Internet policy issues including privacy, free speech, encryption, network neutrality, and copyright online. Prior to joining Google, Davidson was Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a public interest group promoting Internet civil liberties. Starting in 2000 he has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's program in Communications, Culture, and Technology. Davidson has an S.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. About the Series: The Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems is sponsored by MIT Engineering Systems Division. Information about the series and past lectures is available herehttp://esd.mit.edu/resources/brunel.html.