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Autonomous cars aren't perfect, but how safe must they be?
""We should be concerned about automated vehicles," says Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies the techno…
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A Brief History of Robot Law
"The legal system has been wrestling with what robots can and can’t do for longer than you might think. A new paper by Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Un…
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The Next Great Threat From Hackers: Drones?
"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant profe…
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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 &…