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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
"“Ten years is a very, very, very, very long time in the software world,” says Victoria Stodden, who studies computational reproducibility at the Universit…
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DEF CON Safe Mode Crypto and Privacy Village - Cathy Gellis, Riana Pfefferkorn - Fireside Chat
It seems like everyone's talking about Section 230 these days, and keen to change it, even without really knowing what it says and does. Or how badly most o…
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square Cofounder, Donates $10 Million to BU Center for Antiracist Research
"Cyber civil rights expert Danielle Citron, a School of Law professor of law, says Twitter should be credited with “trying to address hate speech in a cohe…
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Q&A with Daphne Keller of the Program on Platform Regulation
Daphne Keller leads the newly launched Program on Platform Regulation a program designed to offer lawmakers, academics, and civil society groups ground-breaking…
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EARN IT Act Talk at the DEF CON Crypto & Privacy Village
On August 7, I had the pleasure of doing a "fireside chat" with my friend and Section 230 expert Cathy Gellis at this year's virtual DEF CON Crypt…
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EARN IT Act Talk at the DEF CON Crypto & Privacy Village
On August 7, I had the pleasure of doing a "fireside chat" with my friend and Section 230 expert Cathy Gellis at this year's virtual DEF CON Crypt…
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Silicon Valley has been quietly selling ineffective tech "solutions" to police departments
""There is a myth that additional technology will make policing more efficient and effective," says Malkia Devich-Cyril, the founding director an…
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The Quiet Growth of Race-Detection Software Sparks Concerns Over Bias
"Using AI to identify ethnicity “seems more likely to harm than help,” says Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University who has…
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The Future of Free Speech Online May Depend on This Database
"“I feel like the evolution of GIFCT is a real illustration of just how slippery terms like platform responsibility or platform accountability turn out to…
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Michigan plans dedicated road lanes for autonomous vehicles
"The lanes would be helpful for the current state of autonomous vehicles, which still cannot operate safely with human-driven vehicles under all traffic an…
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California High Court Sets Rules for Facebook Subpoena
"“Even assuming the lower court finds a good cause, it is not enough that the defendant wants the discovery when a federal law bars it and there are other…
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Back to School? Look Out for Covid-Tracking Surveillance Tech
"“Often when measures are introduced for a specific purpose, they linger on because people become acclimated,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…