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15 Things We Learned From the Tech Giants at the Senate Hearings
"“Russia Today qualified, really because of algorithms, to participate in an advertising program. There are objective standards around popularity to be abl…
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Russian ads, now publicly released, show sophistication of influence campaign
"Technology lawyer Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford University Center for Internet and Society, said that in turning over the ads, compan…
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New York just had its deadliest terror attack since 9/11 — that’s “stunning,” says one expert
"Speaking to Mic on Wednesday, Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst and an assistant professor at the University of Albany, agreed that it is “ver…
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Honk if you're not driving
"As an internationally recognized expert on the law of self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith is frequently asked to weigh in on legal issues related t…
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How Russian Trolls Used Silicon Valley’s Influence to Create Divisions
"“I am worried that disinformation disrupts democracy,” said Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland. “This…
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A Marketer’s Guide To GDPR
"Either way, if the ePrivacy regs don’t include legitimate interest, “that’s bad news for ad tech companies,” said Omer Tene, VP of research and education…
SESTA and the Teachings of Intermediary Liability
This Stanford Center for Internet and Society White Paper uses proposed US legislation, SESTA, as a starting point for an overview of Intermediary Liability mod…
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Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists
"It would be hard to introduce a single federal law against doxxing, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of “Hat…
Jesner Oral Arguments, Justice-by-Justice
Ed. Note: This article is the latest in our series on the U.S. Supreme Court case Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that is slated to resolve the question of whether…
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Tool Without A Handle: Taking Space Seriously
As I’ve been writing about networked information technologies as “tools,” it’s worth reiterating that metaphors of space are not entirely without value, includi…
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An Electric Semi Definitely Won’t Work—But Seven in a Row Might
"On the other hand, stringing together seven trucks would represent “some advanced platooning,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the…
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Twitter bans ads from two Russian media outlets, cites election meddling
""Banning any particular person, group or country is just bad policy - in other parts of the world, platforms will come to be viewed as a tool of U.S.…