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Google's self-driving car caused an accident, so what now?
""This is just one accident, and we will likely see more," said Bryant Walker Smith an assistant professor of law at the University of South Caro…
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Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will still shape the Republican Party.
Last week, Marc Short, who had played a key role in the politically active billionaire Koch brothers’ organization Freedom Partners, moved to a senior role in R…
Computer security is necessary for journalist safety
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published, in Spanish, in El País. This week, journalists, technologists, and other human rights advocates will…
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Legal Analysis Finds Judges Have No Idea What Robots Are
"We can’t be sure what Brieant was thinking when he ordered poor Walter killed (Brieant died in 2008), but a new legal analysis by Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Apple Order Would Permit Vendor-Delivered Wiretap Capability But For CALEA
Apple filed its brief yesterday to vacate the court’s order to write software to disable the security features of the iPhone so that the government could gain a…
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Apple privacy battle with Washington looms as watershed moment
“There are a lot of ways in which the debate over the past year and a half has been déjà vu all over again,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at St…
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Fifty Billion Connected Devices Bring Tort, Software Law Clash
"The product liability challenge embedded in connected devices, which include everything from smart coffee pots and ovens to medical devices and cars, is “…
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Can unlimited video really be that bad?
""It's just another form of favoring one application over another," said Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor. In January, she publ…
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RIAA gets $22M default judgment against “brazen and egregious” MP3 website
"Cooke's order binding the domain registrars, who were not parties to the case, claims authority to do so based on the All Writs Act—the same short law…
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Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work
"“The human equivalent of the company signing code is basically saying, ‘We believe that this code is safe for you to run,'” says Jennifer Granick, dir…
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Nine key legal cases about robots, and the messy legal future of robotic devices
"Robot legal theorist Ryan Calo writes, "I thought you might enjoy my new paper, canvassing decades of American case law involving robots. Courts have…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Apple Invokes First Amendment
Bloomberg Law Brief with June Grasso. Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Nate Cardozo, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Founda…