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Stopping killer robots
No longer confined to science fiction, the use of autonomous robots in a military context has become a very real possibility in recent years. International Inno…
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Prof. Andrea Matwyshyn - Hearsay Culture Show #244 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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How our love affair with ad-blocking risks giving Internet providers even more power
"What Digicel is doing — turning ad-blocking on by default, and charging advertisers a fee to get through the filter — might fly in the Caribbean countries…
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Introducing Spot, the four-legged robot dog: family pet or potential battle aid?
"“These robotic weapons would be able to choose and fire on targets on their own, without human intervention,” says Dr Peter Asaro of the Campaign to Stop…
What you need to know about the cyberspying deal with China
Last week, the United States and China came to an agreement on cyberspying. What are its consequences likely to be? The agreement addresses a big U.S. concern.…
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The Download on the U.S.-China Cyber Espionage Agreement
"However, deLisle and Jeffrey Vagle, lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and executive director of its Center for Technology, Innovation…
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The global struggle to prevent cyberwar
"“They’re more the death-by-a-thousand cuts thing in terms of crime and espionage,” said Scott Shackelford, an assistant professor of business law at India…
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Entrepreneurs Explore Bitcoin's Future
"It is difficult for society to work out a legal framework to differentiate between good and bad uses of this technology, says Arvind Narayanan, a computer…
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Data and protecting the right to privacy
Cross-posted from the Knight Foundation. Video: Knight News Challenge: Data. Jennifer Granick is director of civil liberties at the Center for Internet and So…
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Coding the New 'Schoolhouse Rock'
On a hot summer day in Meridian Hill Park, looking out over Washington, D.C., Harlan Yu is dressed in a green cotton T-shirt, blue shorts and oxford-style sneak…
Don’t Kill the Password. Change the Password
AUTHOR: DANIEL J. SOLOVE AND WOODROW HARTZOG TO ACCESS TO most accounts online and on computer systems, users authenticate their identity by logging in with a…
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Who Regulates the Robots?
Woodrow Hartzog, Unfair and Deceptive Robots, 74 Maryland L. Rev. 785 (2015). When the law faces a new technology, a basic question is who governs it and with…