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Intermediary Liability 101
Attached to this post are Powerpoint slides introducing intermediary liability basics. This particular deck comes from a great CIDE program in Mexico City. It i…
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White Paper Points Out Just How Irresponsible 'Responsible Encryption' Is
"Cryptography expert Riana Pfefferkorn has released a white paper [PDF] examining the feasibility of the vague requests made by Rosenstein and Wray. Their…
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The Repeal of Net Neutrality Could Kill Independent Porn
"“The net neutrality repeal, at its heart, is really a way to allow the companies that we pay to get online, the Comcasts, the AT&Ts, the Verizons of t…
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Why Uber and Google Went to War Over Almost Nothing
"“There were lots of overlaps and informal sharing and all kinds of personalities early on,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at Stanford who spec…
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Philosophers are building ethical algorithms to help control self-driving cars
"Patrick Lin, philosophy professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is one of the few philosophers who’s examining the ethics of self-driving cars outside the…
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Bitcoin extortion plot targeted Churchill Downs, but prosecutors and company kept it quiet
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said a company that has suffered a breach has a duty to notif…
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Reddit bans ‘deepfakes,’ pornography using the faces of celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Gal Gadot
"“It falls through the cracks because it’s all very betwixt and between,” Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and cyberspace exp…
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The Argument Against a Mobile Device Backdoor for Government
"The 'responsible encryption' demanded by law enforcement and some politicians will not prevent criminals 'going dark'; will weaken cyber s…
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DHS’s Kaspersky Lab court filings reveal telling details
"IT CAN’T BE DONE — Senior Trump administration officials are wrong to suggest that encrypted platforms can be engineered to provide access for government…
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Does Ford's Self-Driving Police Car Patent Mean RoboCop Is Coming to a Highway Near You?
"“[Autonomous police cars] could also reduce opportunities for valuable educational or investigatory interactions between police and the public,” Smith say…
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New Paper on The Risks of "Responsible Encryption"
I've just released a new whitepaper called The Risks of "Responsible Encryption" in response to recent comments by Deputy Attorney General Rod Ros…
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Are robot cops the future of efficient, bias-free policing?
"“I'm skeptical that this idea satisfies the patentability requirements of novelty and nonobviousness,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law an…