Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, und…
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Experts rip Ray Ozzie's plan for unlocking encrypted phones
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, who earlier this year wrote a whitepaper on "responsible encryption," said that…
Tactics Used To Find Golden State Killer Raise Privacy And Legal Questions
"BANDLAMUDI: They then made a match with DNA collected years ago from crime scenes throughout California where the suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, allegedl…
Comment on Canadian 'Right to Be Forgotten' Proposal
This Comment was filed response to the Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner's Draft Online Reputation Position Paper. As summarized here, the Comment…
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Ray Ozzie’s Key-Escrow Proposal Does Not Solve the Encryption Debate -- It Makes It Worse
Steven Levy, who’s been covering the crypto wars for a quarter-century, has a long article out in Wired about Ray Ozzie’s technical proposal for a key-escrow-ba…
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Should Police Body Cameras Get Facial Recognition Tech?
"But what happens if the technology makes a mistake? "It's a recipe for tragedy," said Harlan Yu, executive director for Upturn, a technology…
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Meet Badass, the Grassroots Activists Hitting Revenge Porn Where It Lives
""Culturally, we’ve taken a huge hit," Danielle Citron, who teaches law at the University of Maryland, told WIRED last March. “Getting people to…
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Users must demand more privacy protection, Mozilla director tells MPs
"A director with Mozilla Corp., the company that makes the Firefox browser, says he welcomes more regulation of the internet but is also urging citizens to…
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Axon's police body cams could be getting an AI upgrade. Civil rights groups are worried.
"Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies and is one of the letter's signatories, said the gro…
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What Happens When a Self-driving Car Is at Fault?
"Not to mention its track record. “It’s not just being able to show what happened but being able to show that the data should be believed,” says Bryant Wal…
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American politics and the changing media landscape
""These platforms that have really brilliantly democratized the ability to publish for everybody also have brought this sort of architecture that can…
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Net neutrality death delayed
""Portugal features the worst net neutrality violations we have seen in Europe to this day. It is hard to imagine how an independent regulator cannot…