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The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone
Phone-hacking tools “have served as a kind of a safety valve for the encryption debate,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a Stanford University researcher who studies en…
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Tesla ‘full self-driving’ vehicles can’t drive themselves
Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies autonomous vehicles, said it was bad enough that Tesla was using the term “Autopil…
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Amazon imagines a world where you pay with your hand. Privacy experts aren’t so sure.
“There’s always something about the physical that catches our attention,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an associate law professor at the University of South Caroli…
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House Introduces EARN IT Act Companion Bill, Somehow Manages to Make It Even Worse
On September 30, Representatives Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) and Ann Wagner (R-MO) introduced the House version of the EARN IT Act (H.R.8454), which had previously bee…
Brief of Professors of Internet Law as Amici Curiae in Lawsuit over California Net Neutrality Law
On September 30, 2020, a group of seven Professors of Internet Law, led by Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Internet and So…
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Uber self-driving car operator charged in pedestrian death
Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies autonomous vehicles, expressed concern about the signal it sends…
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California Defends its Net Neutrality Law
This week, California filed its first brief in the lawsuit by the United States and Internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast that seeks to overturn…
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Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death
“The fact that this driver has been charged with a crime does not vindicate Uber in any way,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a lawyer, engineer, and internationally…
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The Importance of Protecting Good-Faith Security Research
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is America's federal anti-hacking statute, but it's been used for purposes well beyond that. The law's broad langua…
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Where Are the Self-Driving Cars?
“Comparing disengagement rates between companies is worse than meaningless: It creates perverse incentives….If I wanted to look even better, I’d do a ton of eas…
Deepfake Dallas
Is your voice your own? Maybe not anymore. Using artificial intelligence, someone can make an algorithm that sounds just like you. And then they can say... what…
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Getting the First Amendment Wrong
Think of the last time you changed your profile picture on Facebook or Instagram. When you uploaded that photo, did you assume you were agreeing to let anyone d…