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UPS-backed Rwandan blood deliveries show drones' promise, hurdles
""If you're looking for an economically-efficient way to deliver packages, you'd be better off using a bicycle," said Ryan Calo, an assis…
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This is how the new Captain America movie gets global politics wrong
The directors of Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” say they wanted to create a movie that reflects some of the ambiguities of real-world politics. The movie…
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DA Moore hopeful FBI’s stance on unlocking iPhones will help in local criminal case
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, noted that the FBI signed similar agreements with a thi…
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April 2016 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
April 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-april/ Retrospect is a flagship publication of the…
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Tech groups want next president to emphasize cybersecurity
"Andrew McLaughlin, former Obama administration deputy chief technology officer and now head of content organization at Medium, proposed in a tweet Tuesday…
Can technoheritage be owned?
In 1947, French statesman and novelist André Malraux, famously wrote about the concept of a “museum without walls.” The idea was simple, radical and beautiful:…
Trademark Officials Must Distinguish Between Irony and Offens
Years ago, Justice Frankfurter observed, “the protection of trademarks is the law's recognition of the psychological function of symbols,” noting, further,…
When Selfies Become Surveillance Beacons
Few things represent the age of social media better than posting a selfie. We share these ubiquitous self-portraits with such an urgency you’d think we’d cea…
Inefficiently Automated Law Enforcement
For some crimes the entire law enforcement process can now be automated. No humans are needed to detect the crime, identify the perpetrator, or impose punishmen…
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Will artificial intelligence revolutionize cybersecurity?
""Just imagine a world in which bots are out there looking for vulnerabilities and other bots or artificial intelligence is simultaneously poking hole…
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Woman forced to unlock her iPhone using her fingerprint in unprecedented move that has divided legal experts
"However, Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the order does not appear to violate the Fi…
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Argentinian Telecoms (and Credit Cards) Ordered to Block UBER App
Argentina is in the midst of an inflamed debate on the lawfulness of UBER services. The last stage of the UBER affair—previously visiting cities like Milan or P…