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Navy looking at teaching robots how to behave
"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control — which is campaigning for a treaty to ban “killer robots” — questions wheth…
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Bridgewater, N.S. Sexting Case Will Test Canada's New Law
"McGill University education professor Shaheen Shariff studied the "digitally empowered'' generation of kids in a 2013 project that used surve…
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Kämpferin fürs freie Internet
"Auch einer der größten Fans des Internets schaltet gern mal ab. Und eigentlich hatte Barbara van Schewick genau das jetzt vor. Aus dem glutheißen Südweste…
Hanging Internet Users Out to Dry
Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because…
Rio 2016 — A Gold Medal For Cybersecurity?
In many cases athletes train for years, if not decades, to reach the pinnacle of their sports and represent their respective nations in the Olympic Games. Incre…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Twitter Not Liable for ISIS Tweets
Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Greene, Civil Liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss T…
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The Marvel Chairman, a Hate-Mail Feud and Claims of Stolen DNA
"Change has come slowly despite warnings in the Boston University Law Review about how employers, a person in a romantic relationship or fans of celebritie…
The Promise And Challenge Of Driverless Cars
The ABA Annual Conference may not have been a lot of fun for, say, an institution on the cusp of a DOE smackdown, but as a member of the press — marked with a b…
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Our Fingerprints Are Portals Into Our Digital Lives — But the Laws Haven't Caught Up
"First of all, there's the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful search and seizure. The problem is, according to Yana Welinder, a nonresid…
Tech Tuesday: Hacking During the Election, Portrayal of Women in Video Games and Virtual Reality
With recent hacking issues, some wonder how vulnerable computer systems will be during the U.S. election and what security measures are in place to deal with an…
Chemical Weapons Use Returns to Syria
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous we…
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Editorial: Hacking into elections
""Interfering with the electoral and political process of countries is a classic tool of intelligence and foreign policy,” noted Richard Forno of the…