The debate over US drones opens
(Spanish TV) Robotics can create weapons they think for themselves and can attack military targets without human supervision.UN prepares an international treaty…
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Episode 58: Obscurity Settings
Featuring guest CIS Affiliate Scholar Woodrow Hartzog. What kind of privacy do we want to have? What makes others’ knowledge about us turn from everyday accept…
Prof. Danielle Citron - Hearsay Culture Show #234 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Video recording of talk given April 21, 2015 at Stanford Law School. Why is it bad when the government or companies monitor our reading or web-surfing? We have…
Drones, The Weaponized Web And A Look Inside The Bush White House
On this week’s FAST FORWARD, FOX Business Network’s Jo Ling Kent looks at how China may be weaponizing foreign web traffic. Also, are we taking steps closer to…
Campaigning to stop killer robots
Killer robots — or lethal autonomous weapons systems — could be the future but should they have a mind of their own to decide who lives or dies? It is a comple…
Granick Says People Should Be More Outraged About Internet Privacy
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that people aren't really understanding how the Interne…
Bloomberg Law: Using Facebook to Serve Divorce Papers
David Levine, a professor at Elon University School of Law, and Stephanie Blum, a founding partner at Reuben Racher & Blum, discuss a Manhattan Supreme Cour…
Shaping Your Speech: Media Reform, Past and Present
From the First Amendment to net neutrality, How does media regulation affect what we say? The Sixth Annual Rebele Symposium addressed this topic with Mignon Cl…
Yik Yak & Social Media Trends
Visit WYPR.org to listen to the podcast. Social media is full of hurtful, racist and sometimes threatening speech. We take a look at the hyper-localized and an…
Privacy Vs. Security with Jennifer Granick
In the realm of big data, privacy is a significant, and often controversial, issue. In this clip, Jennifer Granick takes on the alleged trade-off between “priva…
Why Bitcoin Matters (To Computer Scientists)
View the full video on YouTube. Talk by Arvind Narayanan at the University of Maryland. Based on a paper-in-progress by Arvind Narayanan and Joseph Bonneau A…