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Popularity doesn't equal truth.
Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating t…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Black Letter Law
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Latest Tesla Autopilot Wreck Shows How Future Car Accidents Will Be Investigated Like Plane Crashes
"“Aviation suggests the way forward,” says autonomy researcher Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Law and the School of Engineeri…
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Florida Cop Bought Powerful Phone Malware That Can Intercept Emails and WhatsApp
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an email, “Officers should not be buying m…
Disinformation Is Becoming Unstoppable
By DIPAYAN GHOSH AND BEN SCOTT Ghosh, a White House technology and economic adviser from 2014–2015 and former privacy policy expert at Facebook, is a Fellow at…
Comments to Article 29 Working Party on Transparency Under the GDPR
These comments address the issue of transparency under the GDPR, as that topic arises in the context of Internet intermediaries and the “Right to Be Forgotten.”…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Human Rights
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Once Cozy With Silicon Valley, Democrats Grow Wary of Tech Giants
"“We were always careful to condition our optimism and our advocacy that this technology was potentially a double-edged sword,” said Mr. Scott, who is a se…
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How a gang of crooks hijacked your web browser
"Oversight is a known issue in the ad industry, said Ryan Singel, co-founder of the publishing-tools firm Contextly: “If legitimate ad platforms actually d…
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Decoding the Cryptocurrency Craze
"Northeastern law professor Andrea Matwyshyn, who studies technology and innovation policy, has been following cryptocurrency for several years. She said t…
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Blame game: Self-driving car crash highlights tricky legal question
"Companies operating autonomous vehicles are likely to settle quickly in crash-related lawsuits when the technology appears to be at fault, and fight might…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Data Protection and the Right to Be Forgotten
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…