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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…

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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…