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Law Professors Call for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Transparency
Date published:May 9, 2012Over 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today. The letter, the text of which is posted below, criticizes the USTR decision to cancel full day stakeholder presentations for the current round of negotiations being held in Dallas, Texas. Read more » about Law Professors Call for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Transparency
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Nevada Gives the Green Light to Google's Driverless Cars
Date published:May 9, 2012Bryant Walker Smith: By automating driving, cars may someday be able to be lighter, smaller, use less space, travel closer together, generally use the existing roadway infrastructure more efficiently. Now that's very long-term. In the short term, we may actually see something very different, which is self-driving cars behaving more cautiously, keeping more space, taking longer at stop signs. Read more » about Nevada Gives the Green Light to Google's Driverless Cars
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Google Fine For Safari Privacy Evasion Would Be ‘Appropriate,’ Researcher Says
Date published:May 8, 2012“I believe a fine would be appropriate,” said Jonathan Mayer, a researcher and graduate student at Stanford Law School [and CIS Student Fellow], in an email to TPM. “Google circumvented a privacy protection that is used by millions of Americans. It misled users about how they could prevent sharing their browsing history. It breached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. And, quite likely, it profited from this misconduct.”
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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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Woodrow Hartzog: Chain-Link Confidentiality Approach to Online Privacy
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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
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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
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The Twitter I.P.A.
Date published:May 3, 2012 -
Kim Dotcom: A wannabe Steve Jobs?
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An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle
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'Stand Your Cyberground' Law: A Novel Proposal for Digital Security
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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.