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Inside Medium: an attempt to bring civility to the internet
"Last month, a story written in the Sarawak Report - one such publication hosted on Medium - alleged corruption involving the Malaysian prime minister. Af…
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Apple doesn’t have to unlock drug dealer’s iPhone, judge says
""This is a very important decision," Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor, said of the Brooklyn ruling. "Other courts, even…
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Security experts say Apple order 'endangers public safety'
"Security experts are not happy about the FBI's proposal to break security on an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attack. Today, seven of those expe…
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Apple Hackers, Crypto Experts Ask Courts to Vacate Order
"A laundry list of past and present iPhone experts and cryptography experts today filed an amicus brief asking the courts to vacate their order mandating A…
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CIS Files Amici Curiae Brief in Apple Case on Behalf of iPhone Security Experts and Applied Cryptographers
Right now, all eyes are on Riverside, California, where a federal magistrate judge issued an unprecedented and dangerous order to Apple on February 16 compellin…
What the Past of Robotics Law Says About Its Future
One day, robots will present difficult legal challenges. This seems to be the consensus among commentators. And who am I to disagree? I have myself argued, righ…
This is how unethical financial advisers can get away with it
Economists Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru have an eye-opening new academic research paper on the “market for financial adviser misconduct.” They use dat…
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Net Neutrality Is in More Danger Than Ever
"Unlike AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile doesn’t charge companies to allow users access to zero-rated data. But that hasn’t exempted it from controversy. Sta…
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Google self-driving car hits public bus near Mountain View headquarters
"However, Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University and assistant professor in both law and engineering at the Uni…
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Winners Announced for Duo's Women in Security Awards 2016
"Duo Security, a cloud-based trusted access provider protecting the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, today announces winners for its Wome…
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When Regulating Self-Driving Cars, Who’s at the Wheel?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, believes automated vehicles are already legal in the United States, and wrote a…
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Google accepts blame for its self-driving car causing crash
"“The real world is messy! And it’s why the most important criteria for the early deployments of automated vehicles will be location, location, location,”…