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"How can they (law enforcement) shepherd us into an age when we have drones if they don't deal with people's privacy fears?" said Ryan Calo, a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law who has written on the issue of drones and privacy. Read more » about Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve
""They just basically drag the net through these set of activists...and just basically [say], 'Let's get what we can and see what it turns up,'" says Jen Read more » about Chevron Subpoenas Google and Others for Private Email Info
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"Sometimes things are protected not by the law but by the act of having to go look it up," said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. "Now, in the Internet age, where everything is organized so neatly, and quickly, the question then becomes — and this is a question people have taken a couple whacks at — does the law need to respond to changes in technology?" Read more » about Zillow now lists homes in foreclosure
"Es ist wie mit anderen Errungenschaften auch, die zunächst überwiegend vom Militär genutzt wurden", sagt Ryan Calo von der Washington State University: "Es gab das Computerzeitalter, dann das Internetzeitalter. Jetzt kommt das Robotikzeitalter." Seit vielen Jahren schon forscht der Rechts- und Roboterexperte Calo zu Drohnen. Read more » about Angst vor den fliegenden Augen
This post is about licensing partly autonomous cars. Not legally speaking, autonomous cars are those which can drive themselves without any human input, and partly (or mostly) autonomous cars have reduced human input. They use sensors to provide electronic input to a rapidly interpreting computer, and the computer controls some or all of the car’s control mechanisms. Read more » about Licensing Autonomous Cars
“It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can’t be bought or sold here,” said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation who specializes in technology issues. Read more » about Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was also at the ceremony, jokingly said "self-driving cars don't run red lights." Read more » about Calif. Green-Lights Self-Driving Cars, But Legal Kinks Linger
It will take Google 300 million miles of driving without fatal incident - Bryant Walker Smith, of Stanford Law School, believes - to prove that autonomous cars are significantly safer. Read more » about Will driverless cars mean computer crashes?
In her book, “Internet Architecture and Innovation,” Professor Barbara van Schewick states that the Internet’s remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation; and she argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet’s architecture. The technical choices regarding the Internet’s inner structure were made early in its history. Read more » about Net Neutrality Issues and Barbara van Schewick’s “Internet Architecture and Innovation” Book
A green light in California this week for self-driving cars. Not flooding the highways yet, no. But on their way. Cars where your hands are not on the wheel. Your foot not on the brake. Cars that will take you – one day, we’re told – where you want to go. You snooze, they cruise… someday. Read more » about Self-Driving Cars