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Trump Can't Block Critics on Twitter. What This Means For You
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of law, says the case is particularly important because it seeks to assess how the internet…
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We know you're not reading all those new terms of service emails. You might want to.
"Northeastern professor Woodrow Hartzog, whose new book, Privacy’s Blueprint, published last month, calls the law a “watershed moment,” saying it’s built o…
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'Recipe for authoritarianism': Amazon under fire for selling face-recognition software to police
"Amazon marketing materials promoted the idea of using Rekognition in conjunction with police body cameras in real time – exactly the outcome Cyril feared.…
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Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk.
"“We have it being used in unaccountable ways and with no regulation,” said Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, a nonprofit c…
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The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work
"One of the letter’s organizers, Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School, says there are no plans for similar letter for Microsoft or Amazon,…
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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…