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‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security
"“This would be the case of a president overruling literally the most rudimentary advice given by the communications agencies,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who…
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Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder
"“It is clear that the Pentagon aims to build out Project Maven to armed drones, and its functionality does not need much adjustment to become a target rec…
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Unfiltered: ‘Time is running out’
"In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we talk to New School professor Peter Asaro about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology and…
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Charter Uses Net Neutrality Repeal To Claim States Can't Hold It Accountable For Shoddy Service, Failed Promises
"But as Stanford Law School Professor Barbara van Schewick recently pointed out, ironically when the Ajit Pai's FCC rolled back Title II classification…
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Securus hack exposes law enforcement customers of location tracking
"Daniel Nazer, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote on Twitter that Securus only "puts up a pretense of being a technolo…
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Google Employees Quit in Protest Over Military Artificial Intelligence Program
""The timeline of how quickly we could see those systems would be moved up dramatically if Google throws its weight into building the key components o…
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Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society Launch the World Intermediary Liability Map 2.0
-- Updated version of online WILMap provides improved functionality in tracking global online liability laws -- May 16, 2018 -- The Stanford Center for Interne…
Google's march to the business of war must be stopped
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its…
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This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis of Net Neutrality
"“I’m not saying that Google doesn’t act out of self-interest,” says Andrew McLaughlin, who helped start Google’s public policy operation in Washington. “B…
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Americans Can't Have Audi's Super Capable Self-Driving System
"“I think law gets blamed too often,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a legal scholar with the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies self-drivin…
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Plimsoll Gear, which sells T-shirts with icon, threatens trademark lawsui
""It is far from clear how this symbol is operating as a trademark," Daniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, emailed A…
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Farm Bill’s Database on Food Stamp Recipients Stirs Privacy Fear
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who has written on privacy issues, is also skeptical of the database, saying “there’s no…