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Tech workers electing to use skills in politics
"Around the country — and especially in the Bay Area, where 75 percent of voters backed Democrat Hillary Clinton — joining the political fray has become a…
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WikiLeaks Will Help Tech Companies Fix Security Flaws, Assange Says
"While WikiLeaks has often been criticized for releasing sensitive data without regard for the consequences, Mr. Assange is acting responsibly this time, s…
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Gay Iranian refugee in U.S. worries about friends left behind
"“The administration has the right to cap and put limits on the number of refugees it’s going to accept — there’s no legal obligation to take a particular…
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The Way We Talk About Autonomy Is a Lie, and That’s Dangerous
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the University of South Carolina School of Law and an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Soci…
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Will Science Fiction Become the New Reality?
"Indeed, panelist Peter Asaro—philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School—said that machines aren't legal or moral agents. So if hu…
Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hou…
Ukraine Asks for Immediate Relief in Its Case Against Russia before the International Court of Justice
Further to our original post about Ukraine’s suit against Russia before the International Court of Justice, the ICJ is holding hearings this week on Ukraine’s r…
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WikiLeaks Publishes Files It Says Are Biggest Leak of Secret CIA Documents
"Tuesday’s document dump mirrors the one WikiLeaks carried out when it exposed cyber toolkits used by the National Security Agency, and frankly, is not tha…
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The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit
"In United States v. Jay Michaud the indictment will be dismissed without prejudice, meaning that the DoJ can pick the case up again within the statute of…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's February in Retrospect: Right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, Blocking Orders in Sweden and Russia, and more
The February 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, information about block…
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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools" - Part 2
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. This pos…
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A Response to Paul Vixie’s "Notice, Takedown, Borders, and Scale”
Late last month, I posted to SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article, “Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Conten…