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Pentagon says killer robots have no place in US military
""What you still want is humans to designate the target in advance and ensure they are legal and lawful targets before the system is deployed," s…
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Law enforcement hacking declared search under Fourth Amendment
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said the issue could be resolved by Congress first with the decisi…
Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform
The legal authority behind the controversial PRISM and Upstream surveillance programs used by the NSA to collect large swaths of private communications from lea…
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Google seeks changes in Michigan self-driving car bill
""Who did Michigan want to include in this great project of automated driving? The careful language in that letter could give an advantage to traditio…
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Uber’s robot taxis hit the road in Pittsburgh
"“The public will play an important role in shaping both social and legal expectations for these vehicles,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at th…
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Privacy, the forgotten issue: Apathy is making Americans vulnerable
"“If people know things about you, they can take advantage of you,” Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law and a technology expert at the University of W…
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Uber to test semi-autonomous taxis in Pittsburgh. Too soon?
"“Putting a passenger or two in the backseat of a driverless car doesn’t change the risk analysis,” says Bryant Walker Smith, the chair of the Planning Tas…
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Google wants to amend Michigan autonomous vehicle bills
""Who did Michigan want to include in this great project of automated driving? The careful language in that letter could give an advantage to traditio…
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How Cops Have Turned Baltimore into a Surveillance State
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California Davis who specializes in policing and technology, told me that while police secrecy is noth…
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Why scientists must share their research code
"Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational…
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When an app tells companies you’re pregnant but not that you miscarried
“The way privacy law largely works for consumers in the United States is through what regulators call ‘notice and choice,'” said Samford University law prof…
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Tesla Will Update Autopilot Technology To Emphasize Radar Images Over Cameras, Elon Musk Says
"Tesla is making use of so-called 'fleet learning' that will allow the technology to progress at a much faster rate, said Bryant Walker Smith, a la…