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Where Can You Even “Drive” a Driverless Car?
"“Under existing law, the federal government regulates motor vehicle design, and the states regulate driving and noncommercial drivers,” says Bryant Walker…
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Why is Google's co-founder secretly investing in flying cars?
""Silicon Valley is full of secret projects: Flying cars are almost quaint by comparison (since people have been proposing them for decades)," Br…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Teach Themselves to Save Lives—But Also Take Them
“With Go or chess or Space Invaders, the goal is to win, and we know what winning looks like,” says Lin. “But in ethical decision-making, there is no clear goal…
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Silicon Valley county passes new law requiring approval before cops buy spy kit
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that she was not aware of any county nationwide to implement such a law,…
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Modern variations on the 'Trolley Problem' meme
"The article then paraphrases philosophy professor Patrick Lin, whose work at Cal Poly focuses in part on the ethics of driverless cars. According to Lin,…
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Why you should think twice before spilling your guts to a chatbot
"“Chatbots may be able to get us to say more about ourselves than an ordinary website,” says Ryan Calo, codirector of the Tech Policy Lab at the University…
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Lexus struggles with software bug: What this means for automakers
"Even the stereo, which was affected by Lexus's update, can create an unsafe situation, robotics law expert Ryan Calo told the Monitor. For example, bu…
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and an expert on online harassment, is not sure whether online anti-Semitism is spreadin…
It's Too Complicated: How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law
For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States developed under constitutional and statutory regimes that, given the technology of t…
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Luiz Fernando Moncau Joins Stanford Center for Internet and Society as Intermediary Liability Fellow
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School has appointed Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau as Intermediary Liability Fellow. In this role at CIS…
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Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?
"Yet not everyone is on the camera-covering bandwagon. Brian Pascal, a privacy expert who has worked for Stanford and Palantir Technologies says a cost-ben…
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EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…