Oakland’s Privacy Commission Could Lead Nation on Surveillance Oversight
"“It’s really exciting,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, who has been following Oakland’s story. “It’s…
"“It’s really exciting,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, who has been following Oakland’s story. “It’s…
"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a Univers…
"“It’s a game of Whac-A-Mole,” said Beth Van Schaack, who served as senior adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice and is a vis…
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who wrote a book-length paper on the legality of autonomous vehicles, calls this the “mush…
""The FTC just doesn't have time -- it's fabulous, but they have so many things on their plate," said Danielle Citron, a University of Ma…
In a lot of Silicon Valley meetings, participants “iterate,” “ideate,” and “sync,” and do other buzzwordy things. Every once in a while something innovative and…
Editor’s Note: We asked editors Beth Van Schaack and Alex Whiting to do a roundup of the top international criminal justice stories from 2015 and what readers s…
Abstract: Although it might puzzle or even infuriate data scientists, suspicion about big data is understandable. The concept doesn’t seem promising to most pe…
"Recently, I caught up with Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to pose a few questions relating to software patents. Daniel is a staf…
"Alors, quelle activité en propre restera-t-il aux humains face à des robots habiles, véloces et calculateurs ? Le philosophe Dominique Lestel, dans son ou…
Bill O’Reilly, the host of Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” is threatening to flee the country if Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — the self-described democrati…
"Twitter will likely be able to get the lawsuit dismissed. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects platforms like Twitter from liability for…