Trump’s U-turn on Chinese mega-firm ZTE damages U.S. power and credibility
The Trump administration made two very different policy statements on sanctions Sunday. President Trump said in a tweet that an earlier decision to impose massi…
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The Intellectual Dark Web, Explained: What Jordan Peterson Has In Common w/ The Alt-Right w/ Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell), professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, joins us to discuss his latest piece fo…
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
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How Cyber Technology Can Improve Society
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn's work is mentioned in the Activity Report of the Stanford Cyber Initiative titled, "How Cyber Technology Can Imp…
Only giant internet firms may be able to comply with one-size-fits-all rules
If you paid attention to Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress last month, you might have gotten the impression that the internet consists entirely of tit…
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How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless-car regulations, similarly welcomes the proposals from Mob…
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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
"As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including loca…
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Cal Poly hosts forum to address racism on campus amid another blackface incident
"Another panelist, philosophy professor Patrick Lin, said that expelling a student for non-criminal hate speech isn't really an option for a public uni…
The “Intellectual Dark Web,” explained: what Jordan Peterson has in common with the alt-right
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, created a stir this week with a long article on a group that calls itself the “Intellectual Dark…
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Artificial intelligence art -- who owns the copyright?
If your pet dog Hans takes a selfie, does he own the copyright? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) is instru…
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Did YouTube Phenomenon Poppy Steal Her Style From Another Star?
""You'll notice the complaint is very vague when it comes to what works actually infringe—there's just a lot of hand-waving about global simil…
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Stanford Law School Appoints Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Dr. King…