As DOJ calls for “responsible encryption,” expert asks “responsible to whom?”
"While the battle against encryption has been going on within federal law enforcement circles (dubbed "going dark") since at least the early 1990…
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Campaign to Prevent Violent Traffic Stops Tells Drivers to Keep Cool
"The ads also stop short of fully explaining the rights of a citizen in a traffic stop, according to Harlan Yu, the executive director of Upturn, a nonprof…
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Uber's massive hack: What we know
"According to Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, if companies help cyber criminals make money off hacks, t…
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Should Washington begin regulating Facebook? Some lawmakers say yes.
"Policy experts also question how the bill would actually work. Daphne Keller of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society pointed to the challenges of…
Commentary: The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced a radical plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in pl…
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Morality, ethics of a self-driving car: Who decides who lives, dies?
"“These ethical problems are not just theoretical,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State Un…
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The driverless revolution may exact a political price
"“It was a political sign that there is fear” about the impact of the trucks, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina…
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FCC's 'Net Rule Rollback Roils Foes
"“A Net Neutrality repeal would remove one of the very few most important first amendment protections communities of color have today, at a time when free…
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Did Wikileaks Commit A Crime When It 'Guessed' PutinTrump.org's Password?
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said that unless the owner or operator of a system specifically auth…
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Uber signs deal to buy up to 24,000 autonomous vehicles from Volvo
"“This deal is evidence that automated driving is becoming very real,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Caro…
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Wireless carriers on mute as U.S. top court hears big privacy case
"Unlike internet firms, telephone providers require government licenses to operate and many have signed contractual agreements that mandate cooperation wit…
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Killer robots are coming: Scientists warn UN needs treaty to maintain human control over all weapons
"Scientists who specialize in Artificial Intelligence are warning that technology has advanced to the point where we will soon see lethal weapons that can…