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Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill
"Wiener's legislation is "the only state-level bill that fully restores all of the 2015 net neutrality protections," Stanford law professor B…
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Tesla Keeps Using Disputed Crash Stat to Defend Autopilot
"“If Tesla’s going to keep asserting that, and particularly if they’re going to keep crediting NHTSA for it, then I think they need to provide the necessar…
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All-woman tech panel warns of inadequate online legal protections
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), noted that “increasingly, modern surveillance is ma…
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How Government Pressure Has Turned Transparency Reports From Free Speech Celebrations To Censorship Celebrations
"Indeed, as Europe is pushing for more and more use of platforms to censor, it's important that someone gets them to understand how these plans almost…
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Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California
"Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick countered that stance, saying internet providers could simply pay for the infrastructure themselves. Me…
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Google Responds to Troubling Report of Apps Tracking Kids
"Scott Shackelford, associate professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and Cybersecurity Program Chair,…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 163: Teaching The Law Via Podcasts
Law isn't simple, and truly learning about it takes more than a few short primers or even an in-depth guide or two — which makes it the perfect topic to exp…
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California Senate Committee Recommends Cutting Key Net Neutrality Protections
The California Senate's Energy and Utilities Committee published its analysis of Senator Scott Wiener's California net neutrality bill on Monday morning…
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California Democrats Want to Weaken Bill That Would Protect Net Neutrality
"“[The committee’s analysis] recommends removing the bill's protections against using interconnection practices to circumvent the bill's net neutra…
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Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users
"At a minimum, “Facebook is going to have to think about ways to structure their technology to give that proper notice,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeaste…
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When Mr. Gates Went to Washington
"Tom Rubin, a former senior lawyer at Microsoft who is now a lecturer at Stanford University, sees many parallels between the government scrutiny of Micros…
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Why WhatsApp is Brazil’s go-to political weapon
"Nor would WhatsApp breaking its encryption for Brazil’s Supreme Court actually alleviate the problem, according to Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fello…