EFF to Supreme Court: Don’t Turn US Patents Into Worldwide Patents
The general rule in patent law is that each country has its own patent system. If you want damages for sales in the United States, you need a U.S. patent. If yo…
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California launches system allowing driverless cars to ditch their backup drivers
"“The public is going to know more about automated driving because of California and not because of the federal government,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an a…
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Florida law allows driverless vehicles. Does the law go too far?
"Florida hasn’t been as dramatic with its legislation as other states, said University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who studies aut…
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Professor uses student ID card data to help predict dropouts
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society, believes the University of Arizona could run into sever…
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Tech giants brace for sweeping EU privacy law
"Marshall Erwin, director of trust and security at Mozilla, said that his company rewrote its privacy policy and overhauled its privacy settings to prepare…
The new rules for the internet - and why deleting Facebook isn’t enough
While being pessimistic about the depressing tableau of Silicon Valley malfeasance is easy, let us not forget that the internet has brought tremendous value to…
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Facebook 'ugly truth' memo triggers new firestorm over ethics
"Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Polytechnic State University, said he sees "no evidence that Facebook&#…
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Uber crash sparks talk of tighter rules for self-driving cars
"But autonomous vehicles contain both the car and the driver in one robot package. “That blurs the lines between those state-federal responsibilities,” sai…
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Facebook to the carpet?
"Although Zuckerberg has assured in recent days that in the company are examining all the contracts signed over the years with the apps on the social netwo…
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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…