The Burr-Feinstein Crypto Bill Would Gut Our Cybersecurity
In the name of saving cybersecurity, a new bill before Congress would kill cybersecurity. On April 13, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)…
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When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?
I am a law professor who writes about robotics. I’m also a big Paolo Bacigalupi fan, particularly his breakout novel The Windup Girl involving an artificial gir…
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State-Level Cyber Security Efforts: Commissions, Boards, Working Groups and Task Forces
States have reacted to increased concern about cyber threats and cyber security in numerous ways. They've created new security organizations to do analysis…
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Revenge porn: the industry profiting from online abuse
"For the vast majority of online harassers, however, the benefit is not monetary but psychological, says Danielle Citron, professor at the University of Ma…
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Watch live: Encryption vs. the FBI
Please join us this Wednesday, Apr. 27 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. PDT for a discussion on encryption. What's the latest on encryption? Stanford University'…
Europe’s Web Privacy Rules: Bad for Google, Bad for Everyone
In a concession to regulators, Google is . . . using “geo-blocking” technology to control what European users can see. Under the new system, Google will not onl…
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Can't find Prince on Spotify? Here's how to listen
""And there's no way this would be some kind of market substitute for the original Prince song", Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Daniel…
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Second Bid by Feds to Make Apple Unlock iPhone Ends in a Whimper
"Like the California case, the New York fight is ending "not with a bang, but with a whimper," said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at t…
Conservative professors live a closeted life. Here’s why.
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Jr. are the authors of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in The Progressive University, a new book from Oxford Uni…
Network Neutrality: A Perspective from the Frontline in the Battle for Free Speech in the Digital Era
Morgan Weiland delivers Convocation at Carleton College entitled "Network Neutrality: A Perspective from the Frontline in the Battle for Free Speech in the…
The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty
The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have alre…
This new book explains why so many Islamist extremists have studied engineering
Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog’s new book, “Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education,” examines why a disproportion…