When Toasters Attack: 5 Steps to Improve the Security of Things
There is a great deal of buzz surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), which is the notion, simply put, that nearly everything not currently connected to the I…
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The Lawyer Protecting Your First Amendment Rights
"When a federal civil rights case accusing a Yale professor of sexual misconduct landed on BuzzFeed reporter Katie Baker’s desk, the words that had dominat…
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Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
"Challenging the government over the scope of search warrants may seem like administrative arcana next to causes that get crowds of protesters onto the str…
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Michigan moves forward with autonomous vehicle testing
"But Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has studied the legal impact of self-driving cars, said that so…
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When your driverless car crashes, who will be responsible? The answer remains unclear
""Liability is a poorly understood word," said Bryant Walker Smith, one of the leading experts in the legal aspects of autonomous driving. "…
Does the Int’l Criminal Court Have Jurisdiction Over U.S. Forces in Libya?
Recent US airstrikes against ISIL targets in Libya raise an intriguing question: does the International Criminal Court (ICC) have jurisdiction to investigate an…
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Michigan's Automated Driving Bills
Michigan's Senate will soon consider, and I'm told will likely pass, several bills related to automated driving. SB 995, 996, 997, and 998 are now out o…
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Multinational Companies Remain Wary of U.S.-EU Data-Transfer Pact
"Legal experts offered several reasons why companies aren’t embracing Privacy Shield, including the possibility that it, too, will be invalidated. “There i…
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Top Safety Official Doesn’t Trust Automakers to Teach Ethics to Self-Driving Cars
"Ryan Calo, an expert on robotics law at the University of Washington, is skeptical that it’s possible to translate the so-far theoretical ethical discussi…
Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies
"A new survey from a group of Princeton researchers of one million websitessheds some light on the cutting-edge tricks being used to follow your digital tr…
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What will keep your self-driving car from killing you in the future?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, tells Inverse that each of those vehicle types has its own set of rule…
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Survey: 34% of privacy pros expect their companies to certify under Privacy Shield
"Omer Tene, VP of Research and Education at the IAPP, suggested in an interview with SCMagazine.com that companies may be disinclined to jump through the r…