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Autonomous cars (no human backup) may hit the road next year
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who tracks self-driving cars, said the Delphi-Transdev project would be among the…
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Inside the military tactics used during Standing Rock
"But the information provided by TigerSwan could have helped police forces overcome that prohibition. Elizabeth Joh, a private security legal scholar at th…
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Are Geek Squad agents spying for the FBI?
"Finding child porn is one thing; courts have typically deferred to law enforcement on such matters, said Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of busi…
A tiny party of hardliners holds the balance of power in Britain. Here’s what you need to know
After last week’s shocking results, Britain’s Conservative Party had to make a deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to return to governm…
Don’t believe what Putin is saying about ‘patriotic’ Russian hackers
The last two days have seen two major developments regarding Russian hacking. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin tacitly admitted that Russian hackers migh…
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Wannacry, London and Apple: Bush-Era Officials Debate Encryption
"Crump also made that point. “The problem with that is that you cannot build a back door that works only for the U.S. government, good guys, or other peopl…
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Privacy vs. Security: Experts Debate Merits of Each in Tech-Rich World
"On the other side of the argument, Catherine Crump, acting director of Samuelson Law for the Berkeley School of Law, focused her argument on the dangers o…
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Twitter users, blocked by Trump, cry censorship
"Morgan Weiland, an affiliate scholar with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says the blocked tweeters’ complaint could air key questi…
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Trump's Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
""The question of whether the President’s Twitter feed is a public forum is a more complicated question," says Neil Richards, a professor at Wash…
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Major web companies and public interest groups Announce Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
"Malkia Cyril, executive director at the Center for Media Justice, said: “Communities of color across the United States depend on an open Internet to thriv…
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British PM seeks to knock terrorists’ planning offline
"“It’s playing whack-a-mole,” said Richard Forno, who directs the graduate cybersecurity program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “The bad…
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Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media
“Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media” “I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I…