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Privacy Shield gets nod from EU, ripe for judicial challenge
"“The approval of Privacy Shield, an arrangement facilitating commercial data flows between the EU and U.S., concludes a process set off by the Snowden rev…
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Full episode of "Bloomberg West." Guests include Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford…
Police use of lethal robots sparks crime-fighting debate
Hours after gunman Micah Johnson ambushed police officers in downtown Dallas, he was killed by a bomb strapped on a police robot. Robots in the past have stoppe…
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Google’s Driverless Car Project Has a New Head Lawyer
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor who studies driverless cars at the University of South Carolina, said the difficulty with a system like Tesla’s is th…
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New Challenge for Social Media: Policing Violent Live Videos
"“There doesn’t seem to be any limit to what can be captured and what can be shared,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Cent…
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What does Dallas's 'bomb robot' mean for the future of policing?
"“We use the predator drone to target people overseas, and now we see the police force using a [robot] to target someone in a US city, and that catches peo…
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Why It's Legal for Police to Kill With a Robot
"According to University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, the situation doesn’t give rise to any new legal issues, but is unsettling for a different…
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The Legal and Ethical Ramifications of Letting Police Kill Suspects With Robots
"“It is essentially a jury-rigged version of a drone strike,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor specializing in cyber and robot…
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Bomb kill by robot a shift in police use
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, who specializes in surveillance and technology issues, said she thought the Dalla…
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A conversation on the ethics of Dallas police's bomb robot
"Today we learned the Dallas police used a bomb disposal robot to deliver and detonate an explosion, killing the suspect in last night's shooting. It w…
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In an apparent first, Dallas police used a robot to deliver bomb that killed shooting suspect
"The way the robot was used in the Dallas case is likely legally no different from sending an officer in to shoot a hostile suspect, according to Universit…