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March 28, 2013
In this video from Shmoocon 2013, Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann from EFF discuss several recent prosecutions brought under the Act, including cases against Aaron Swartz and Andrew Auernheimer. Read more » about The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Swartz, Auernheimer, and beyond
March 28, 2013
The 4th Positive Thinking webcast broadcasted originally on March 28, 2013. Read more » about Connected Vehicles
"“We don’t yet have self-driving cars in a realistic sense,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who specializes in the issues surrounding self-driving vehicles." Read more » about The Perfect Parking Garage: No Drivers Required
"In many instances, this type of attack could still be executed, said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, who researches digital security and social media." Read more » about Leaked Photos of Johansson Expose Cloud's Vulnerabilities to Social Engineering
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The 4th Positive Thinking webcast takes place on Thursday March 28 at 11am PDT (US), and focuses on CONNECTED VEHICLES
Questions to be covered include:
What are the best practices in connected vehicles?
What barriers still need to be overcome?
What are the burning legal issues? Read more » about Connected Vehicles Webcast
"In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke could spur much-needed reforms to American privacy law." Read more » about The More Americans Know About Drones, the Less They Like Them
"There are very sophisticated chemical sensors or other sorts of sensor technology that permit you to do what the dog-sniffing cases pretty much allow, which is only detect contraband." Read more » about Supreme Court: Cops Need A Warrant To Use Drug Dogs Outside A Home
"Cameras mounted on buildings that have facial recognition capability, for example, needn't be lofted on a flying drone to be a privacy concern, Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington explained to NBC News." Read more » about Bloomberg to NYC: Domestic drones are inevitable
"Based on the number of car crashes in the United States and the miles traveled, he concluded that Google's cars would need "to drive themselves (by themselves) more than 725,000 representative miles without incident for us to say with 99 percent confidence that they crash less frequently than conventional cars. If we look only at fatal crashes, this minimum skyrockets to 300 million miles. To my knowledge, Google has yet to reach these milestones."" Read more » about A driverless car has gone 300,000 miles without an accident, says Jeb Bush
"“I’m not saying it’s impossible to hack some online voting for a state election, but it’s much more difficult to do it there” than with the newspaper’s poll, Forno said. A state election system “would have far more security features built in,” he said." Read more » about University of South Carolina professor hacks Courier-Journal online poll to 'get the discussion going'
