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Trump's 'throw-up-your-hands' approach to cybersecurity worries experts
""The idea that you just sort of throw up your hands and say, 'nothing can ever be secure so why try,'—that's a really dangerous posture a…
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Amazon Echo search warrant could spur new prosecution methods, expert says
"yan Calo, a professor at the UW School of Law who specializes in privacy, robotics and cyberlaw issues, says the Bentonville Police Department’s fishing e…
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Lane Powell Honors the Past While Preparing for the Future of Technology Policy
"“It could be used to help people with disabilities, providing information about the world that their senses can’t access,” explains Ryan. “The fact that I…
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CES 2017: Chrysler joins the autonomous vehicle parade
"But while the car has an impressive look, it's hard to say what it will really be capable of. Bryant Walker Smith, leading expert on the legal aspects…
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Can a Driverless Shuttle Reduce Car Use on Campus?
"“These limited environments are ideal for early experimentation and demonstration, in part because the challenges are simpler and the risk of harm is lowe…
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Unlike Our Cars, U.S. Policy Can't Drive Itself
"However, scrambling to regulate the emerging industry at the federal or state level may not be the answer, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professo…
Op-ed: Five unexpected lessons from the Ashley Madison breach
On December 14, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission settled a complaint with the company running the adult finder site Ashley Madison over the 2015 data breach t…
White House Retaliation for Russian Hacking
This afternoon the White House announced several actions against Russia in retaliation for Russian interference in the U.S. election. Key among them is the use…
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Echoes of murder
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, also thinks that criminal implications of a device like Echo, given th…
Bloomberg Law Brief: License Plate Readers in Court
Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western University School of Law, and Catherine Crump, Professor at Berkeley Law School, discuss whether or not police depar…
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Five ways AI could change your life
"“One is of course the legal status, one is regulating these technologies,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina Schoo…
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Drones were the hot Christmas gift last year, but where are they now?
"There are still considerable legal, technological and public perception problems to overcome, said Ryan Calo, a robotics law expert from the University of…