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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…
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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…
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FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a Univers…
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Can Silicon Valley help stem hate speech gone viral?
"“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…
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Human Driver, Taking Over From Computer, Crashes Autonomous Car
"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…
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The case for looking to the states, not the federal government, to protect your privacy
""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…
“Ideating” on ISIS and Silicon Valley
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…
International Justice Year-in-Review: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Part 2)
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…
Trusting Big Data Research
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…
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Hacking the patent system: Open source and patents
"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…
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A QUOI RÊVENT LES ROBOTS ?
"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 will flee to Ireland if Sanders is elected. He’s in for a shock.
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…