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Who’ll be responsible when self-driving car crashes?
"“In comparison to the automotive industry today, the automated driving industry will likely bear a bigger slice of a smaller pie of total crash costs,” wr…
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The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
""The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now," says Neil R…
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The Cross-Border Data Fix: It’s Not So Simple
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, G…
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BREIN v. Ziggo: The Pirate Bay Dies Again
The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, t…
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House Judiciary Continues Email Privacy Law Overhaul Debate
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and international security at Google, said in response to questions from Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) that ECPA…
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Youth is no defence when it comes to shameful online posts
"According to Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and a leader in the fight against online harassment and reven…
We need our platforms to put people and democratic society ahead of cheap profits
Fake news captures attention and is corrosive. Like many similar social problems online, it is a symptom of surveillance capitalism. Surveillance capitalism exp…
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The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
"And yet, according to Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, there are 21 crimes that have to do explicitly with speech—things lik…
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Inside the ACLU’s nationwide campaign to curb police surveillance
"When you pass a law, you create legality where there wasn’t,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, a Bay Area nonprofit. “We create the lega…
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Trump’s FCC Refused to Fight For Lower Prison Phone Rates. Now, Inmates Will Pay.
""This court decision is a disaster for families of incarcerated people, a large percentage of whom are low-income and people of color," Malkia C…
Making Google the Censor
Prime Minister Theresa May’s political fortunes may be waning in Britain, but her push to make internet companies police their users’ speech is alive and well.…
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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…