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The Possible Privacy Violations of Verizon's Cell Phone Tracking Program
Date published:October 16, 2012 -
CyLab hosts panel discussion on cybersecurity issues
Date published:October 15, 2012 -
Licensing Autonomous Cars
Date published:October 14, 2012This 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
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Indicted Megaupload founder plans site reboot
Date published:October 11, 2012 -
If I Fly a UAV Over My Neighbor's House, Is It Trespassing?
Date published:October 10, 2012 -
Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
Date published:October 7, 2012“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
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Calif. Green-Lights Self-Driving Cars, But Legal Kinks Linger
Date published:October 3, 2012Google 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
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Will driverless cars mean computer crashes?
Date published:September 30, 2012It 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?
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Net Neutrality Issues and Barbara van Schewick’s “Internet Architecture and Innovation” Book
Date published:September 28, 2012In 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
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Self-Driving Cars
Date published:September 27, 2012A 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
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Technology soon to make drones deadlier, more autonomous
Date published:September 27, 2012The advance drones could pose significant problems in the future. Stanford researchers Ryan Calo and Patrick Lin warn that there is a small chance that an advanced drone that does not rely on human controls, could go rouge in combat.
“Autonomous robots are likely to be learning robots, too,” Lin told the Dispatch. “We can’t always predict what they will learn and what conclusions they might draw on how to behave.” -
Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now
Date published:September 27, 2012Even our traditional definition of "privacy" may no longer apply in a world of omnipresent cameras and recorders, according to Woodrow Hartzog, assistant professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law, where he writes on privacy and human engagement with electronics. "Privacy has really ceased to be helpful as a term to guide policy in the United States," he says, "because privacy means so many different things to so many different people. Read more » about Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now
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Governor Brown Paves the Road for Hands-Free Driving in California
Date published:September 26, 2012Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that would create safety standards for driverless cars - or “intelligent transportation” - in California.
The bill effectively legalizes autonomous driving - once the technology catches up. And it’s not far off. Tech researchers and automakers at the forefront of the movement predict that we’ll be seeing robo-cars on the road by 2015; by 2040, they say, drivers’ licenses may be obsolete.CIS Resident Fellow Bryant Walker Smith interviewed.Read more » about Governor Brown Paves the Road for Hands-Free Driving in California
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Robot cars now officially legal in California
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With a Push From Google, California Legalizes Driverless Cars
Date published:September 25, 2012California drivers could soon see cars on the road driving themselves, courtesy of Google and the state government. Read more » about With a Push From Google, California Legalizes Driverless Cars
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California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
Date published:September 25, 2012"The hard work is left to be done by the DMV," said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research. Read more » about California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
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Driverless Cars OK'd for California Roads
Date published:September 25, 2012"The hard work is left to be done by the DMV," said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research. Read more » about Driverless Cars OK'd for California Roads
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How Much Data Can Facebook Collect Before the FTC Gets Involved?
Date published:September 24, 2012Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix, which gives Facebook access to our offline shopping habits via our rewards cards, by explaining that it doesn't violate any Federal Trade Commission regulations. Facebook says it will anonymize the data and is only interested in showing advertisers how their ads are converting to new sales. But it led us to ask what exactly the FTC does protect in the data collection department. Read more » about How Much Data Can Facebook Collect Before the FTC Gets Involved?
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Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names
Date published:September 24, 2012“Facebook’s insistence that it will ‘not be using this data for enforcement actions’ puts the company and users in a difficult position,” says law professor Woodrow Hartzog. “If Facebook is openly admitting that it is not going to enforce its own policies when it knows these policies have been violated, how should users gauge the importance of these terms? Alternatively, if Facebook does plan to enforce its ‘real names’ policy, is it really going to be willfully ignorant of this pile of data that could help Facebook pinpoint which users are violating its agreement? Read more » about Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names