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Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving recommended that governments conduct "legal audits" to "identify and analyze every statute and regu…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's January in Retrospect: fake news in the EU, “toxic” content in Vietnam, and other cases
The January 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available.Retrospect is the flagship, open-access publication of the Internet & Jurisdiction policy network, d…
American Spies - Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, And What to Do About It
US intelligence agencies - the eponymous American spies - are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and politi…
Reforming Intermediary Liability in the Platform Economy: A European Digital Single Market Strategy
Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, interme…
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Got a Self-Driving Car? Soon, No License Will Be Required
"“If there is no driver, there is no need for a driving license, just as the passenger in a taxi needs no license to get a ride,” Bryant Walker Smith, assi…
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Email Privacy Act has another run at becoming law
"As the ACLU argues in a letter, the existing law essentially violates the fourth amendment, protecting citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. R…
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U.S. House Passes Bill Requiring Warrants to Search Old Emails
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at Google (GOOG, +0.47%), said in a statement the measure would "fix a constitu…
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Uber hires NASA veteran to work on flying autonomous cars
""These tech companies are determined to make self-driving cars seem boring by comparison!" said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor at the…
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Tech Giants Have the Legal Clout to Help Stop Trump’s Refugee Ban
"“The tech industry has been increasingly active in recent years in cases that involve the civil rights of their customers or, like in this case, their emp…
It's Too Complicated: How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law
For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States has drawn a strong distinction between the protections afforded to communications &q…
Trump's Immigration Order Signals Sharp Departure from Other Post-WWII Presidents
As "leader of the free world," every post-World War II US President has expressed some form of public support for refugees through speeches and White…
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Area law enforcement moving to deploy body cameras
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, pointed out that the police chief has the authority to bar an officer from viewing a recording, particularly if it inclu…