The Security Debt Is Coming Due
There’s something particularly unusual about the recent revelations that foreign hackers successfully breached voter registration systems in Arizona and Illinoi…
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The True Cost of Westworld's Robot Sex
"Patrick Lin, Ph.D., the director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic University, fears that sexbots might make us less hum…
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United States Cedes Control of the Internet
"Andrew Bridges with Fenwick West in San Francisco submitted an amicus brief to Hanks on Friday on behalf of the Internet Association, the Internet Infrast…
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In the race for drone delivery, the U.K. is way ahead of the U.S.
"“I think people forget how lucky the U.S. got with the internet,” said Ryan Calo, a technology law professor at the University of Washington. The reason…
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How the Legacy of Slavery Is Very Much Still with U.S.
"AMY GOODMAN: On Saturday, just before I sat down with Ava DuVernay, I sat down with two of the people featured in the film. Among those who are in the fil…
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Researchers ask federal court to unseal years of surveillance records
"Two lawyers and legal researchers based at Stanford University have formally asked a federal court in San Francisco to unseal numerous records of surveill…
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Elon Musk, billionaire tech idealist and space entrepreneur
"“Elon Musk is a great visionary and a great inventor, and you have to admire his ambition and his moxie,” says Patrick Lin, philosophy professor and head…
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Researchers file for access to court orders that force companies to break their own encryption
"The researchers are members of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and part of the organization’s Crypto Policy Project, a group es…
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Stanford Researchers Seek Court Documents Ordering Companies to Help Government Defeat Encryption
Researchers at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed a petition yesterday seeking to unseal judicial records in San Francisco federal distric…
Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part III
In our previous posts, we’ve argued that the NSA is collecting massive amounts of data about US citizens under conditions that have nothing to do with terrorism…
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Shaheen Shariff on rape culture on university campuses
Professor Shaheen Shariff of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education has embarked upon an ambitious seven-year project to addres…
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Over $10 million in SSHRC funding to support McGill research
"The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada recently announced the recipients of its latest round of Insight, Insight Development, and Pa…