James Comey’s Default-Encryption Bogeyman
FBI Director James Comey recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption routinely poses a problem for law enforcement. He stated that encryption h…
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Nato Thompson - Hearsay Culture Show #247 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate
"Rather than feeling downtrodden and helpless, many consumers are “thrilled or even delirious” about new technology, said Omer Tene, VP of research and edu…
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The Feds Will Have Rules for Self-Driving Cars in the Next 6 Months
"“This is an aggressive and ambitious embrace of automated driving,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina S…
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Cadillac’s Delaying Its First Whack at a Self-Driving Car
"Tesla has willingly stepped into a “mushy middle space,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of La…
When Toasters Attack: A Polycentric Approach to Enhancing the ‘Security of Things’
Scott Shackelford Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Law; Stanford Law School; Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Ce…
Content Is Content, No Matter How Small
Recently, Orin Kerr and I had a brief conversation on Twitter regarding the Fourth Amendment and the content/non-content distinction. Specifically, Orin asked t…
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You may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard
"Some argue the agency has the legal authority to address the privacy issues raised by drones. But the agency “does not consider privacy to be their role o…
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Albert Gidari Appointed Director of Privacy at Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Albert Gidari as director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Gidari will lead the c…
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Google says its futuristic self-driving cars needed some old-fashioned human intervention to avoid 11 crashes during testing on California roads
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who closely follows self-driving car developments, said the rate of potential collisi…
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Google reports self-driving car mistakes: 272 failures and 13 near misses
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina, says the DMV could reasonably ask for more information.…
Operationalizing Cybersecurity Due Diligence: A Transatlantic Comparative Case Study
Although much work has been done on applying the law of warfare to cyber attacks, far less attention has been paid to defining a law of cyber peace applicable b…