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EFF’s Stupid Patent of the Month: Streaming cloud-based content
"US Patent No. 8,856,221 is called the "System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment." In short, the in…
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Dear Silicon Valley: Great satire can be fake news!
Watch out! Fake news is coming to get you! Lock your doors and iPhones, guard your dogs and children, and hold on to your comb overs! But is fake news so bad, a…
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Vulcan™
"That’s something that just isn’t true, said Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law and a former trademar…
Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts
FLI’s Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Ariz…
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Wiretap Numbers Still Don't Add Up
Earlier this year, I wrote that the wiretap numbers reported by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts in its 2014 Wiretap Report and those disclosed i…
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Some pervert cyberflashed me on the subway—And I have my iPhone to thank
"Flashing someone is illegal, but the cyber equivalent isn’t, said Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, who has written a boo…
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Alleged Kidnapping Raises Questions About Online Harassment
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…
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Congress Is About to Expand Government Hacking Powers
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University who specializes in privacy law, says the history of computer crime law shows that vague language ca…
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Microsoft’s HoloLens headset will allow real tank operators to see the battlefield outside
"“[The technology] would give us the best of both worlds: It would take the human warfighter out of harm’s way, but it would also give robotic systems the…
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'A classic commons problem': Publishers are going notifications crazy
"Publishers have quickly realized the power of mobile notifications in drawing people back to content, so naturally they’re at risk of overdoing it. “This…
Law school administrators would like al-Qaeda to go after U.S. News & World Report. This is why.
Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder’s new book, “Engines of Anxiety,” explains how law schools try to game the U.S. News & World Report’s academic rank…
Facebook Must Stay Out of China
Andrew McLaughlin, technology executive: Though it has been evident for years that Mark Zuckerberg really, really wants Facebook to operate in China, I’m genui…