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Microsoft’s Old Software Is Dangerous. Is There a Duty to Fix It?
"Cyber law professor Jennifer Granick of Stanford University suggests auto-industry style liability is not appropriate for software. "While it is tru…
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Looking Forward to Our Driverless Future
"The challenges are legal as well as technological. Bryant Walker Smith, a member of the legal faculty at the University of South Carolina, says that “hist…
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If you attended a recent march to protest, wrote a check to the ACLU, or recently visited a politically leaning website, consider yourself an activist, says Sta…
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Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
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Jailed for a Facebook post: how US police target critics with arrest and prosecution
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…
Trump’s values are abhorrent to the Federalist Society of conservative lawyers. That doesn’t stop them from helping him.
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin describes the Federalist Society as an enormously influential network of conservative lawyers. Its executive vice president, Le…
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How the WannaCry Attack Will Impact Cyber Security
"Meanwhile, threats of similar – or perhaps worse – attacks have continued to surface. “This was not the big one. This was a precursor of a far worse attac…
Jeff Sessions’s war on drugs will be less consequential than many believe. Here’s why.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to reverse the policies of the Obama administration, by prosecuting more cases involving guns and drugs, and seeking more m…
The U.S. census is in trouble. This is why it’s crucial to what the nation knows about itself.
The U.S. census has recently been the subject of political argument. After contentious discussions before a congressional panel, John Thompson, the director of…
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Perpetuating Bias: Why We Should Think Critically About Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
"Arvind Narayanan, assistant professor in computer science at Princeton said, “We have a situation where these artificial intelligence systems may be perpe…
Cybercriminals have just mounted a massive worldwide attack. Here’s how NSA secrets helped them.
Computers around the world are suffering an attack from malicious software. The compromised computers have been hit by “ransomware” — software that encrypts the…
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Can’t Get That Camping Spot? It Could Be Bots
"Matwyshyn believes there needs to be space for innovation, but if not everyone has the same access to technology, it raises a lot of questions. “That’s a…