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System Bits: Dec. 13
"Victoria Stodden, a University of Illinois professor of information science and the lead author of the report asserted, “We have a real issue in disclosur…
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Wrongful Arrest by Software
Managing information is central to the criminal justice system, and so it’s inevitable that mistakes happen. Names get confused, files lost. When these errors o…
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Google self-driving car project steps out on its own as ‘Waymo’
"While the self-driving car project was in Alphabet’s “X” unit for “moonshots,” there was much speculation over what the business plan or “end game” was, s…
Thomas Schelling has died. His ideas shaped the Cold War and the world.
The University of Maryland has confirmed the death of Thomas Schelling, perhaps the most important economist and social scientist of his generation. Most social…
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Google reveals 8 secret letters from FBI
"“We minimized redactions to protect privacy interests, but the content of the NSLs remain as they were when served. We are also publishing the corresponde…
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Google just published eight National Security Letters
"“In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the National Sec…
Data Confidential
It’s nearly impossible to know if you're having a truly private, unmonitored conversation today. Big data and online communications open the door for widesp…
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Two books about government surveillance win 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
The 2016 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize has been awarded to Laura K. Donohue for her book The Future of Foreign Intelligence: P…
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Top 10 developments of 2016 in autonomous vehicles
""Automated driving developments in 2016 became more concrete," said Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, "…
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Big data sellers fail to hide personal information, say funds
"But there is no overarching US privacy law to protect consumers, with standards set individually by different states, industries and even companies, accor…
Why it's dangerous to outsource our critical thinking to computers
The lack of transparency around the processes of Google’s search engine has been a preoccupation among scholars since the company began. Long before Google expa…
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Michigan Just Embraced the Driverless Future
"“As near as I can tell from the language and the context, what’s going on is a specific effort to implement a specific regime for a specific company,” say…