The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
"Bryant Walker Smith, a civil engineer, lawyer, and Stanford Law School fellow, is the leading expert on how existing law would apply to self-driving cars. His book-length legal analysis has more than 650 footnotes, but the title sums up the situation: “Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States.” Probably." Read more » about Inside Google's Quest To Popularize Self-Driving Cars
Drones, Killer Robots & Push-Button Wars
A CONVERSATION ABOUT DRONES WITH PETER ASARO
Moderated by Roger Berkowitz
Monday, September 23, 2013, 6:30 pm
Bard MBA for Sustainable Business Space Website:
http://www.bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter/events/
Cocktails at 6:30 pm
Discussion at 7:00 pm
Bard's MBA for Sustainable Business
1150 Sixth Ave. 5th floor
NYC Read more » about Drones, Killer Robots & Push-Button Wars
"Privacy advocate Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University privacy expert who works with Mozilla, quit the group last month. "Given the lack of a viable path to consensus, I can no longer justify the substantial time, travel and effort associated with continuing in the working group," Mayer said in his resignation letter." Read more » about Digital Advertising Alliance Exits Do Not Track Group
By Center for Internet and Society • September 17, 2013 at 9:04 am
Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the Big Data and Privacy we co-hosted last week. A collection of proceedings form the conference will be published in the near future. Papers that were submitted in advance of the event are now available here. Read more » about Big Data and Privacy: Thank You
"The three founding directors are Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor at the UW’s School of Law; UW Associate Professor Tadayoshi Kohno, from Computer Science and Engineering; and Professor Batya Friedman, from the UW Information School." Read more » about Can policy keep up with technology? New UW lab gets $1.7M from Microsoft
RSVP is required for this free event.
6:00pm Reception
7:00pm Talk begins in Room 290.
Balancing Freedom of Expression and the Containment of Online Hate Read more » about Viral Hate - Evening Book Talk with Christopher Wolf
"It isn’t hard to imagine police also forcing a suspect to put his thumb on his iPhone to take a look inside, said Brian Hayden Pascal, a research fellow at the University of California Hastings Law School’s Institute for Innovation Law." Read more » about Can Your iPhone Thumbprint Be Used Against You?
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law and a founding director of the lab, said technology policy can rarely be addressed by a single discipline." Read more » about UW, Microsoft create Tech Policy Lab
""The court makes a number of intuitive holdings, which might seem simple, but the complicated language and structure of the Wiretap Act can make common-sense decisions difficult," Samford University law professor Woodrow Hartzog said." Read more » about Google can face wiretap claims in Street View suits, court says
September 10, 2013
The first session from the Big Data & Privacy: Making Ends Meet conference held on September 10, 2013. Event was co-hosted by the Future of Privacy Forum and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Panelists are Martin Abrams, Deirdre Mulligan, Neil Richards, Omer Tene, Erik Jones, and Jules Polonetsky moderated. Read more » about Framing Big Data and Privacy
