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Why killer robots ‘must be stopped’
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 59 groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Committee. Spokesman Peter As…
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Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
"Rather than contempt, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Apple could incur daily penalties if…
The Feds Are Wrong to Warn of “Warrant-Proof” Phones
If you’ve been paying attention to the fight between Apple and the FBI over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, you’ve probably heard the term “warrant-proof p…
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Tech tools contested weapons in «digital jihad»
""This is one of the harder questions that we will ever have to deal with," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's…
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How Apple Helped Me Crack iPhones Like Clockwork
"“The government is making the argument that the past is prologue” even though technology has changed, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center…
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The SEC Play for a Backdoor to Your Email
The FBI demand for access to a locked iPhone by compelling Apple to write new software to undo its security features has sucked the oxygen out of the surveillan…
Mapping War Crimes in Syria
This paper maps the range of war crimes being committed in Syria with reference to the applicable treaty and customary international law and prospects for prose…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 65: Net Neutrality, Zero Rating & The Games Internet Providers Play
The battle for net neutrality seemed like it was over — but the regulations left a loophole open. Unsurprisingly, ISPs quickly started exploiting it, offering &…
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State And Local Cyber Security: The Rapid Growth of Cyber in Fusion Centers
Tracking the institutional response of state and local governments to cyber threats is relatively tough in many cases. Security concerns, rapid changes, and li…
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Spend your weekend reading this paper about whether robots count as human
"Do machines have rights? It's a classic question in science fiction, but we've reached a point where the question can be hammered out in actual ca…
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What Kind of Legal Rights Should Robots Have?
"Robots. Are they people, too? Science fiction has long consider the legal rights of artificially intelligent beings. But as robots become an increasing p…
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Some self-driving cars see green light, others get a yield
""The devil is in the details, and once you go deeper, you discover these weird legal details you never would have guessed," says Bryant Walker S…