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FBI surveillance devices may interfere with 911 calls, U.S. senator says
"Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer science professor who served as a technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, said the issue deserves clos…
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NSA leader to hackers: Cybersecurity’s a team sport
"His omissions underscore two of the agency’s biggest current problems, says Richard Forno, director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the Universit…
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Can Trump Stop Twitter from Enforcing Its Own Speech Rules? Not Likely.
Are Internet platforms distorting our political discourse by silencing conservatives? If they were, could Congress pass a law forcing them to play fair? The fi…
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3-D-printed gun blueprint was uploaded in book form to Amazon as a 'free speech exercise.' Amazon removed it.
"Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis specializing in information law, told The Post that asking a judge to decid…
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
"Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and a professor at the University of Maryland’s law school, told Motherboard that Facebook’s “oh shit…
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Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds hearing on blockchain technology
"In his testimony, Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, discussed the cybersecurity implications of blockchai…
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Should killer robots be banned? UN urged to prevent AI killers from violating human rights
"Peter Asaro, an associate professor of media studies at the New School, argued in April this year reaching consensus on the issue could be tricky because…
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IBM has invented coffee drones – and they predict when you need a cup
"To Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law drone expert, the coffee drone proposal is trying to do too much. "It's a combination of…
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Blockchain Could Help Bring Renewable Energy to the Power Grid, Experts Tell Congress
"“Blockchain technology is not a necessary or core component of cybersecurity,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science associate professor at Princeton…
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California Net Neutrality Measure Advances, As Firefighters Complain Of Throttling
"“Net neutrality is actually a lot broader than just protecting businesses,” says Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Intern…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Tech giants open up about election cyberthreats as specter of regulation looms
"“It’s a corporate win-win,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a Northeastern University law professor specializing in technology policy. “There’s no downside for com…