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Obviously Drivers Are Already Abusing Tesla’s Autopilot
"“Companies can get away with a lot that’s in a legal gray area, as long as bad things don’t happen,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
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Europe’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Could Allow Torrent and VPN Throttling
"Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, tells us that in its current form the net ne…
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Stanford-professor: Populære fildelingstjenester trues af EU-lov med svag netneutralitet
"Barbara van Schewick, professor i retsvidenskab og direktør for Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, mener derimod, at loven i sin nuværen…
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The good, bad, and ugly of binary thinking . . .
Sometimes the best choice when you come to a fork in the road is to retreat, or even merge the two forks by taking one then going off road to the other! And yet…
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Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encry…
College textbooks are a racket
The Orange County Register reports that Alain Bourget, a math professor at Cal State Fullerton, is in danger of serious disciplinary action from his employer. H…
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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots warns UN of threat 'a few years away'
"Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York, noted that without a human in control, machines fail to take in the unpredictable variables and co…
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Why Making People Register Their Drones May Just Create More Problems
"There are two possible lines for making the determination, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, suggested to The Huffington Post: w…
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Survey Shows Amount of Trust in Autonomous Vehicles
""The key question here is whether the relevant technologies have reached a demonstrated level of socially acceptable risk," said Bryant Walker S…
Valarie Kaur at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Valarie Kaur, founder of Groundswell, gave this moving address on Revolutionary Love at the world's largest interfaith gathering – the 2015 Parliament of th…
Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the…
What is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that Robert Kagan simply doesn’t get?
Showtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations scholars often fail to get. Global politics is less an…