We’re building superhuman robots. Will they be heroes, or villains?
Forget about losing your job to a robot. And don’t worry about a super-smart, but somehow evil, computer. We have more urgent ethical issues to deal with right…
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Letter to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on Right to Be Forgotten
International Data Flows: Promoting Digital Trade in the 21st Century: Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 114 Cong 133…
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Animals vs. Drones: Should Close Encounters Be Banned?
""Right now they're focusing on how to protect people and airplanes," Ryan Calo, drone expert and law professor at the University of Washingt…
Paris Insights
Brian Nussbaum CCHS Senior Fellow; Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, SUNY at Albany ISIS has been engaged i…
Rethinking the Think Tank
The debilitating weakness in our democracy today is the growing disconnect between government and citizens. Most Americans now believe that our political system…
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A multi-speed Europe
"Unsurprisingly, then, Europe’s new rules have bigger loopholes than America’s, even if the law just passed is much stricter than the commission’s first pr…
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CBS News tests out Tesla's autopilot technology
""By marketing a system that does some but not all of the driving, Tesla could be setting itself up for liability first if the vehicle malfunctions, b…
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Open Internet Goes to Europe
"The opposition to Europe’s net neutrality regulations appears to have been organized by the same US firms that lobbied for the FCC’s Title II rules: the I…
A Quick Update: Apple, Privacy, and the All Writs Act of 1789
Here’s the latest in the encryption case we’ve been writing about in which the Justice Department is asking Magistrate Judge James Orenstein to order Apple to u…
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Notice and Takedown Under the GDPR: an Operational Overview
This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.…
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The GDPR’s Notice and Takedown Rules: Bad News for Free Expression, But Not Beyond Repair
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection…
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How The EU's Proposed New 'Privacy' Rules Will Be A Tool For Massive Censorship
"As we wrote in our last post, Daphne Keller at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society is writing a series of blog posts raising concerns about how…