How Many Times Has the Government Spied on You Today?
The Snowden revelations, while dramatic, have done little to amp up public concern about personal surveillance. After all, thanks to technology, electronic spy…
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If You're Not Driving, Then You Shouldn't be Liable for Accidents in Self-Driving Cars
"In his new law review article, "Automated Driving and Product Liability," University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith foresee…
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How Long Can Border Agents Keep Your Email Password?
"“Based on the policy and reported incidents, my best guess is that CBP agents have broad discretion to keep login credentials if they think they will have…
The General Assembly & Accountability for International Crimes
Further to Alex Whiting’s post on Russian objections to the U.N. General Assembly’s formation of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assis…
Henry Farrell: Far-right parties hate EU but need it
The chief political aide of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front party and candidate for the French presidential election, has jus…
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When driverless cars crash, who gets the blame and pays the damages?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor, expands on the belief that there will be a shift in blame for a crash from the at-fault…
Automated Driving and Product Liability
Abstract This Article focuses on one cyberphysical domain — automated driving — to methodically analyze the so-called liability problem. It considers how autom…
A Look at the Case of the ex-CIA Officer Being Extradited to Italy for Her Role in a 2003 Rendition
[This post has been updated to reflect the fact that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy’s involvement in the rendition violated its obligat…
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Adding self-driving tech to your car is surprisingly cheap... and legal
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who advises the NHTSA on autonomous car law, thinks drivers are within their legal ri…
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Waymo's Fight With Uber Might Be the First Shot in a Self-Driving Car IP War
"“For years I’ve warned about a potential automated driving patent war that could rival the notorious smartphone patent war,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a l…
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Judge: No, feds can’t nab all Apple devices and try everyone’s fingerprints
"Riana Pfefferkorn, one of the lawyers who first found this judicial opinion and publicized it on Twitter, told Ars that part of the problem with these typ…
France’s National Front scandal has exposed the dirty little secret of Europe’s far right
The chief political aide of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party and candidate for the French presidential election, has just be…