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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…
Cybersecurity and consumer protection online
Last week Yahoo announced that 500 million accounts had been hacked – consumer names, email addresses, phone messages, passwords and birth dates were stolen. It…
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Could a revenge porn case in Northern Ireland change Facebook across the planet?
""It is fairly easy for all these companies to figure out where all this data is coming from," Danielle Citron, who authored Hate Crimes in Cyber…
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The Gray Area of Driverless Car Regulation
"The draft rules in California, where 15 companies are currently testing driverless vehicles, “will probably be either substantially reworked or superseded…
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Autonomous What? Americans Aren’t Sure What Self-Driving Cars Are All About
"“Broadly, the public has been really confused about what automation means, about the technologies and applications, and the business cases and the timelin…
Zoom Inside: The Case for Cybersecurity Clinics and What They Can Teach Your Firm
Indiana is known for several things—the Indy 500, Hoosiers basketball, Notre Dame football, and corn. Cybersecurity does not typically make that shortlist, but…
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Will Yahoo’s Data Breach Help Overhaul Online Security?
"Hemant Bhargava, professor of technology management at University of California-Davis, and Northeastern University law professor Andrea Matwyshyn discusse…