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Does 'Stand Your Cyberground' Stand a Chance?
Date published:May 7, 2012Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University [and CIS Affiliate Scholar], made the "stand your cyberground"-argument recently in The Atlantic, writing that because the U.S. government is too constrained by international law to lead cyberdefense against foreign attacks, and with private companies having "been the main victims of harmful cyberactivities by foreign actors to date," we should weigh up allowing "commercial companies to fight cyberfire with cyberfire." Read more » about Does 'Stand Your Cyberground' Stand a Chance?
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FTC Appears Ready To Fine Google Millions Over Apple Safari Privacy Breach
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FTC could fine Google millions for Safari privacy breach (updated)
Date published:May 5, 2012 -
Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines -- But at Who's Behest?
Date published:May 5, 2012This February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer published a study that found that Google and three other companies, Vibrant Media Inc., WPP PLC’s Media Innovation Group LLC and Gannett Co.’s PointRoll Inc., were circumventing Apple’s Safari browser’s privacy setting and placing unwanted ad tracking cookies on unsuspecting users computers. Read more » about Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines -- But at Who's Behest?
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Report: Google To Be Fined By FTC For Safari Browser Privacy Evasion
Date published:May 4, 2012 -
FTC Appears Ready To Fine Google Millions For iPad, iPhone Privacy Breach; Consumer Watchdog Complained To Commission After Hack Was Discovered
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Kim Dotcom makes it big in Hollywood
Date published:May 4, 2012 -
The Twitter I.P.A.
Date published:May 3, 2012 -
Kim Dotcom: A wannabe Steve Jobs?
Date published:May 2, 2012 -
An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle
Date published:May 2, 2012 -
'Stand Your Cyberground' Law: A Novel Proposal for Digital Security
Date published:April 30, 2012 -
Word of Mouth 04.28.2012
Date published:April 28, 2012Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Well, you may want to get used to it. While the US government has been putting un-manned drones to heavy use in war zones in recent years, the flying robots will soon be soaring American skies. Read more » about Word of Mouth 04.28.2012
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The Real Problem with Driverless Cars
Date published:April 28, 2012When a company sells a car that truly drives itself, the responsibility will fall on its maker. “It’s accepted in our world that there will be a shift,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a legal fellow at Stanford University’s law school and engineering school who studies autonomous-vehicle law. “If there’s not a driver, there can’t be driver negligence. The result is a greater share of liability moving to manufacturers.”
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Has the Internet Run Out of Ideas Already?
Date published:April 28, 2012The internet was another one of those gloriously creative, anarchic technologies that spawned utopian dreams. Its internal architecture – its technical DNA, if you like – enabled an explosion of what Barbara van Schewick called "permissionless innovation": all you needed to prosper was ingenuity, software skills and imagination. So what the network's designers created was, in effect, a global machine for springing surprises.
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Look Up and Smile for the Drone
Date published:April 25, 2012The Wall Street Journal noted one expert, Stanford Law School researcher Ryan Calo, who said “the domestic use of drones will likely grow as more machines are brought back from war and as prices fall.”“If you bring back a tank from Afghanistan, you don’t expect it to show up in a park,” Calo said.Read the full story at the original publication link below. -
IP Lawyers Meet Tupac's Hologram
Date published:April 25, 2012One IP issue that has been discussed recently is ownership and usage of a dead person's image. As Ryan Calo, the director for privacy and robotics at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, observed here, "if the fear of dying weren't bad enough, suddenly you lose control over aspects of your legacy."
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Anonymous commenters slammed with $13 million slander ruling
Date published:April 24, 2012 -
'Anonymous' Posters to Pay $13 Million for Defamatory Comments
Date published:April 24, 2012 -
Couple Win $14 Million after Un-Masking Anonymous Internet Trolls who Labeled them Sexual Deviants
Date published:April 24, 2012'If the award is upheld, then people will think twice about what they say,' said Ryan Calo (CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics).'Defamation is one area of law in which a jury or court have to figure out how much damage has been done.Read the full story at the original publication link below.