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…
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Users are the real winners of the Google books case
"“This is a big shift in thinking,” said Annemarie Bridy, a scholar of technology law and intellectual property at the University of Idaho College of Law.…
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Tool Without a Handle: Quantum Paradox #3
This installment on the quantum paradox extends the privacy analysis to the adjacent field of free expression and content moderation. Free expression issues ar…
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Appeals Court Validates Google's Mammoth Books Project
"The appeals court recognized that the Google search engine "creates new forms of research, such as text mining and data mining," said Ben Depoor…
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Study: Government Privacy Programs Lack Sufficient Resources
"Seventy percent of government programs report less than sufficient budgets to meet their privacy needs, according to a recently released study from the In…
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…