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How Bots Could Hack Your Health
"But such efforts could face significant legal and enforcement hurdles, primarily regarding free speech restrictions, says Ryan Calo, an associate professo…
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Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security
Robert Chesney University of Texas School of Law Danielle Keats Citron University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Infor…
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Uber fills 'critical' role of chief privacy officer
"But Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said it's not unusual to see a tech company without…
Europe has just hit Google with a record $5 billion fine. Expect fireworks.
The European Commission, which administers antitrust policy in the European Union, has just hit Google with a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion U.S.…
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Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
"Nowhere in the statute does it say that tech companies are prohibited from making editorial decisions if they want Section 230 protections. Quite the oppo…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 174: How Private Agreements Recreated SOPA
One of the most dangerous aspects of SOPA and other copyright proposals is the idea of moving enforcement and liability further down the stack of technology tha…
The Inconsequential Choice-Of-Law Question Posed By Jesner V. Arab Bank
Abstract In Jesner v. Arab Bank, the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether victims of human rights abuses can sue corporation…
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Bots of the Internet, Reveal Yourselves!
"Mr. Calo cited as an example a driverless car law passed by Nevada in 2012, which met with protest from luxury carmakers. They were miffed that the techno…
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How AT&T’s plan to become the new Facebook could be a privacy nightmare
"“It’s tens of billions of dollars on the table, at a minimum. So of course they want to be in this market,” says Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor at…
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How Wireless Carriers Get Permission to Share Your Whereabouts
"“That was a green light for telecommunications carriers to monetize customer location data,” said Stanford University law professor Al Gidari, who helped…
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US: Government Has Planted Spy Phones With Suspects
"Even if authorized by a warrant, the dissemination of vulnerable devices could create a risk of significant harm. Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow…
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
"“Once our data gets out there, it tends to be stored forever,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor. “There are firms that specia…