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Tesla Driver Died Using Autopilot, With Hands Off Steering Wheel
"“This is another potential illustration of the mushy middle of automation,” Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies…
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Waymo starts to eclipse Uber in race to self-driving taxis
"“GM is very determined,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “It’s c…
Click by click, drowning in data, we Internet ‘users’ are being used
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica was involved in the extraction of data involving over 50 million Facebook users has raised more than a few questions abo…
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A legal question for the AI age: Is tricking a robot the same thing as hacking it?
"Their paper considers a broad view of the legal definition of hacking under the CFAA, applying it even to previous work done by one of the co-authors, Yos…
Northern Ireland's Brexit Problem
Next month, the Irish and British people should be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The agreement serves as the cornerstone of the…
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Uber settles self-driving car crash case with victim’s family
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina school of law, who writes regularly on autonomous driving matters, said he wa…
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Uber Isolated by Partners and Competitors in Aftermath of Crash
"The self-driving vehicle community has long discussed the potential dangers of a "Hindenberg" for self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith, a…
Comment in response to European Commission's March 2018 Recommendation on measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online
The European Commission's March 2018 Recommendation on measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online calls on In…
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Call For Papers: The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race
The editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race seek additional contributors. This volume will bring together the work of leading sch…
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Worried about what Facebook knows about you? Check out Google
"What Curran found is the reality that Google's millions of users face every day, said Scott J. Shackelford, an associate business professor at Indiana…
FOSTA: The New Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation May Not End the Internet, But It’s Not Good Law Either
Amid the chaos of the last week, one of the most significant pieces of internet legislation of the last two decades went relatively unnoticed. Most people likel…
Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony
Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Com…