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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…
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Net neutrality could become the biggest face-off on corporate speech since Citizens United
"Others are challenging the idea that Internet providers are even capable of speech. As pipes that carry consumers' Web traffic to and fro, Internet pr…
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Intelligent Machines: Do we really need to fear AI?
"Picture the scenario - a sentient machine is "living" in the US in the year 2050 and starts browsing through the US constitution. Having read i…
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New report says government privacy programs underfunded, understaffed, but that's changing
"In an interview, Omer Tene, a privacy expert and IAPP's vice president of research and education, said it's not unique that government is cash-str…
Facebook is at the center of a huge privacy controversy. For once, it isn’t Facebook’s fault.
The Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice, the European Union’s closest equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, has just made a key finding in a court…
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No Stamp Required: All Too Easy for #Bahrain Twitter Trolls
"Danielle Citron is an expert on online harassment and privacy. She's the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press September 2014)…
Raw Data- Episode 1: Uploaded
In this first episode, Mike and I explore how your simplest digital footprints – fragments of Google searches, Facebook likes, and innocuous tweets – can expose…