Spying on Muslims is bad policy
During the presidential primary, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz suggested increased surveillance and policing of Muslim neighborhoods in the United States. This suggestion…
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Safe or Good? We All Have Choices to Make
"In contrast, courts have not forced individuals to reveal the passcodes used to secure their mobile devices.[2] What gives? Albert Gidari, the director of…
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Apple’s Touch ID rules may be designed to protect human rights
"I spoke to Geoffrey King, the technology program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a group devoted to reducing the danger to reporters…
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White House, University of Washington Co-host Artificial Intelligence Workshop
"UW Law Professor Ryan Calo, says imagine you’ve been placed on no-fly list. “It’s not as though there’s some dossier that you could look at and see exact…
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White House to come to UW, engage in discussions on artificial intelligence and law
"In relation to the role of government in AI, Ryan Calo, assistant law professor at the UW and faculty director of the Tech Policy Lab, and one of the spea…
Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones From Flying Over Your Property?
NO: It Is the Way to Kill Innovation By Ryan Calo The year is 1910. Orville and Wilbur Wright are testing their plane and happen to fly hundreds of feet over…
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-…
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Taplin's False Choice Between Music and Technology
Jonathan Taplin’s op-ed (Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t) in the May 20 edition of The New York Times perpetuates a powerful dichotomy that has come t…
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Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go
"All of this might sound terrifying, but as assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt explain, the preeminence of Google,…
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Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision
"Stanford School of Law professor and autonomous car expert Bryant Walker Smith praised Google -- once he stopped laughing about the patent. "The ide…
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Google's sticky hood patent for self-driving car is not as crazy as you think
"Bryant Walker Smith says the usefulness of this technology is all situational. For example, it's probably not too beneficial if the sticky car hood le…
The Chinese government fakes nearly 450 million social media comments a year. This is why.
Internet researchers have long known that the Chinese government manipulates content on the Internet. Not only does it censor heavily, but it also employs hundr…