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Is Tesla’s Fatal Crash a Setback for Self-Driving Technologies?
"“Depending on the specific facts and the particular state’s law, Tesla could conceivably be liable to the family of the Tesla driver for the design and ma…
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With 4 Days Left, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Lessig, And Barbara Van Schewick Beg Europe To Close Net Neutrality Loopholes
"Europe only has a few days left to ensure that its member countries are actually protected by realnet neutrality rules. As we've been discussing, back…
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Berners-Lee: EU Should Ban Zero Rating
"World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has joined with others on an open letter to European regulators and lawmakers warning them they have four days…
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Berners-Lee Urges Citizens to Comment: "Four Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe"
"In an open letter released today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Barbara van Schewick, and Professor Larry Lessig are urging citizens, lawmakers and regul…
Four Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe: An Open Letter
Cross-posted from the World Wide Web Foundation. The post below is an open letter to European citizens, lawmakers and regulators, from our founder and Web inve…
Comments on TRAI’s Consultation Paper on Free Data
I welcome the opportunity to comment on TRAI’s Consultation Paper on Free Data. I submit these comments as a professor of law and, by courtesy, electrical engin…
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Feinstein encryption bill, opposed by Silicon Valley, likely dead
"“That’s kind of a do-nothing idea for me,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “It seems like y…
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The ethics of using 'bomb robots' as killing machines
"Ryan Calo, a faculty co-director at the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab who spent 2000 to 2003 investigating claims of misconduct at the Ne…
Judge Garland & The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act
As promised, this post surveys several Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA) opinions penned by Judge Garland while on the D.C. Circuit. Judge Garland has had o…
Syria, J’Accuse! Syrian State Responsibility for War Crimes
So far, achieving any measure of accountability for the grave international crimes being committed in Syria has been elusive, as I’ve outlined before. A draft S…
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Out Cold and Behind the Wheel in Semi-autonomous and Autonomous Cars
""The developers have yet to design or at least demonstrate a system that can achieve a socially acceptable level of risk across a wide range of drivi…
(Un)Fairness of Risk Scores in Criminal Sentencing
In a ruling today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sanctioned the use of COMPAS risk assessment scores about a defendant’s potential recidivism in sentencing, so lo…