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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…
Giving Up on Cybersecurity
UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vol. 64, Forthcoming UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-29 Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic incr…
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Will the Constitution Protect Your Next Smartphone?
"But these decisions don’t necessarily mean the debate over the Fifth Amendment and fingerprint readers is all wrapped up, says Al Gidari, a technology law…
A First Amendment For Social Platforms
The great 21st-century platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest — have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars. Twitte…
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Outing is totally still a thing, people
"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by anti…
The U.S. wants to maintain cross-border data flows. That may be tough.
"Karen Kornbluh, the former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has a new cyber brief making the case for…
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Facebook, stand up or get out
Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2…