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"Tool Without a Handle: Metaphors of Gender"
Tool Without A Handle: Metaphors of Gender It’s difficult to recall an internal memo gone viral that has sparked as much commentary as James Damore’s statemen…
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JP Morgan Chase just got a patent on basic app communications
"How was such a broad and obvious idea allowed to be patented?" asks EFF patent attorney Daniel Nazer. "As we have explained many times before, t…
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Reality Winner Was Not Told She Had the Right to Remain Silent
"University of California, Davis law professor Elizabeth Joh came to a similar conclusion about Winner’s case. “She certainly could have a valid argument,”…
Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?
Abstract Encryption shields private information from malicious eavesdroppers. After years of slow adoption, encryption is finally becoming widespread in consum…
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The Comment Period Is Over, But the Battle for Net Neutrality Ain't Done Yet
"Open internet advocates argue that net neutrality is especially important for marginalized populations that feel threatened by the Trump administration. &…
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The DNC IT Scandal And The Jackpot Lottery Fraud: When Digital Gatekeepers Become Thieves
"Professor Brett Frischmann at Villanova University states, "the problem some companies face with self-dealing by IT professionals is complex because…
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AI’s rapid advance sparks call for a code for robots
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, says that we tend to talk about robots as if they are a future technology, ignoring the fact t…
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Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, compared social networks to town squares of centuries past — an analog…
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Do We Need a Speedometer for Artificial Intelligence?
"It’s less clear how such measures might help government officials and regulators grappling with the effects of smarter software in areas like privacy. “I’…
A liberal think tank has just pushed out an employee who criticized Google. That’s worrying.
The New York Times reports that the liberal-leaning think tank New America has pushed out scholar Barry Lynn and his team on the foundation’s Open Markets initi…
When Politics Drives Scholarship
The publication of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, a history of the “public choice” economist James Buchanan and his impact on American politics, has led t…
Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed
Just Security recently broke the story that the State Department was considering shuttering or downgrading certain functional offices and Senate-confirmed ambas…