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Self-Driving Cars Would Need a Driver in California
"“California is the place that everyone’s watching and learning what to do and what not to do,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the Univer…
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Tech, auto companies join forces to thwart patent trolls
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who holds the delightfully titled Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, had c…
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Self-Driving Cars Would Need a Driver in California
"“California is the place that everyone’s watching and learning what to do and what not to do,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the Univer…
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Data Privacy Day: Changes transform policy, perspective since last year
"Many of the most important developments have had a Eurocentric flavor to them. For instance, the European Court of Justice in October 2015 struck down the…
Opinion: Forget about Safe Harbor. Modernize global privacy law instead
There's a widening transatlantic divide regarding privacy rights that needs to be bridged – and soon. But instead of coming up with another version of the…
The new, worse ‘right to be forgotten’
The General Data Protection Regulation — a once-in-a-generation overhaul of Europe’s data protection laws — has landed, after a grueling four years of negotiat…
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Sorry, Google: California's self-driving car bill would prioritize unknown rival
"Some carmakers, including Tesla, are building vehicles with increasingly sophisticated driver assistance systems. The other approach, favoured by Google,…
The Government Shouldn’t Distribute Child Pornography. Period.
Participating in the distribution of child pornography is a federal crime. But that’s exactly what the F.B.I. did in this case. In order to identify more than 1…
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How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Be?: A Future Tense Event Recap.
"The central issue may come down to what Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis, called “the Stepford Wife problem,” which she described as the…
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Drone Lobbying Heats Up on Capitol Hill
"“Now that there is so much interest and money in drones, everyone wants to get their say” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University…
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The Anti-Cyberespionage Bill That Isn't, or Never Was?
It is extremely difficult these days to figure out exactly what problems the Defend Trade Secrets Act's (DTSA) sponsors are trying to solve. As an academic…
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Auto leaders lend advice on regulating future car tech
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, went a bit further in depth with his advice. “The details matter…