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…
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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
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(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…
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Wir haben keinen Online-Journalismus
taz: Frau van Schewick, wem gehört das Internet? Barbara van Schewick: Allen. Allen, die das Internet benutzen, und denen, die es bereitstellen. Nicht den gro…
Can’t register for Pokémon Go? Game theory helps explain why.
The new Niantic game Pokémon Go has perhaps been too successful for its own good. The Internet is filledwith articles, posts and comments from people complainin…
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What can you do when Pokémon Go decides your house is a gym?
""This is a kind of a novel problem," says Ryan Calo, who teaches cyber and privacy law at the University of Washington’s school of law. Usually,…
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Hundreds of mystery human skulls sold on eBay for up to $5500
"“I do see that there are human dignity issues in traffic in human body parts, and that there are all kinds of reasons why we wouldn’t want that to happen,…