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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…
The Risks of “Responsible Encryption”
Abstract. Federal law enforcement officials in the United States have recently renewed their periodic demands for legislation to regulate encryption. While they…
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5 Takeaways From Tech Leaders' Content Moderation Conference
"“Trust and safety and content moderation is a field that, if you don’t have gender and ethnic and other [types of diversity], you can’t do it,” Feerst sai…
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A Mixed Result for Cox in the Fourth Circuit
The Fourth Circuit has issued its decision in BMG v. Cox. In case you haven’t been following the ins and outs of the suit, BMG sued Cox in 2014 alleging that th…
Our Hackable Political Future
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.…
Trump is a typical conservative. That says a lot about the conservative tradition.
Corey Robin is the author of “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump.” The New Yorker described the first edition of this book as…
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Statehouses are the new arena in the battle for net neutrality
"Ryan Singel, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, believes that legislation may survive judicial scrutiny, and the poli…
Is it Time for a National Cybersecurity Safety Board?
Abstract In the wake of a series of destabilizing and damaging cyber attacks ranging from Equifax to Yahoo!, there has been a growing call for the U.S. governm…
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A Glossary of Internet Content Blocking Tools
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume, where it appears as an appendix. The terminology it explains is relevant…