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Rubio and Cruz spar over domestic surveillance program
"To remedy this, the new law is "technology neutral," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competi…
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Here’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Two months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor arrangement, an agreement that big U.S. multinational…
OmniCISA Pits DHS Against the FCC and FTC on User Privacy
On Friday, Congress will vote on a mutated version of security threat sharing legislation that had previously passed through the House and Senate. These earlier…
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Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine
"Trick or trap: In the Harvard Law Review's "Bait, Mask, and Ruse," Elizabeth Joh of the U.C. David School of Lawargues that allowing police…
T-Mobile Is Likely Violating Net Neutrality
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a much-celebrated net neutrality order, which is now on appeal before a federal court. That dec…
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What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?
"“I’d agree that AI is a very powerful tool, and some designs and uses can be better or worse than others,” says Patrick Lin, a philosopher at Cal Poly who…
The Transatlantic Data War
Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15-year-old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to tran…
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Irish High Court Ordered ISP to Implement Graduate Response Strategy
In Sony Music & Ors v UPC Communications, the High Court of Ireland ordered the second largest Irish Internet access provider, UPC Communications, to implem…
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Founder of Google’s Stealthy Surgical Robotics Project Speaks
"Other robotics experts are not so sure. Ryan Calo is a law professor at the University of Washington, and teaches a class on Robotic Law and Policy. “The…
Don’t Forget the Other Legal Issues in the 9/11 Trial
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous we…
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The 4 worst patents of 2015
"To give just a sense of just how out of touch the law has become, I askedDaniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to highlight t…
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Net-Neutrality Proponents Warn of Loopholes
"“If this isn’t addressed…it will send the signal that this kind of behavior is OK, and I think that will encourage other [Internet-access providers] to st…