Facebook's new digital assistant 'M' will need to earn your trust
Facebook’s announcement that it is testing a digital assistant called “M”means that each of the “big five” technology companies is now in the digital assistant…
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Outed Ashley Madison users want to make stolen data legally toxic
"“Are these sites exacerbating an already harmful situation. Yes,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy law expert at Samford University. “But that doesn’t mean…
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August 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
August 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-august/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of t…
Tech companies may be our best hope for resisting government surveillance
Over the last year, the FBI has had harsh words for Apple, accusing the tech giant of endangering human lives and aiding criminals by turning on encryption by d…
Classical Greece was incredibly politically innovative. Why did it rise — and then fall?
Josiah Ober is the Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. He is also the author of a new book from Princeton University…
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MIND THE GAP – But not our pay gap
"This issue over robots replacing traditional occupations has been discussed amongst academics since the dawn of artificial intelligence, and will unlikely…
Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law
Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Woodrow Hartzog Samford University - Cumberland School of Law; Stanford Law School Cent…
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‘Gone Girl’ Suspect Confesses to Reporter—As FBI Listens In
"“I think it’s a good motion,” says Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “The officers manipulate…
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Ashley Madison Hack Creates Ethical Conundrum For Researchers
"Jennifer Granick, a law professor at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that the legal questions around the hack are still murky, but a fe…
The Difficulty With Metaphors and the Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution seems straightforward on its face: At its core, it tells us that our “persons, houses, papers, and effects” are to b…
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As self-driving cars come to more states, regulators take a back seat
"“Automated vehicles are probably legal,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor whose research helped advance that interpr…
From Internet Connected Drink Mixer To Any Remote Configuration On The Internet: August's Stupid Patent Of The Month
Imagine if the inventor of the Segway claimed to own "any thing that moves in response to human commands." Or if the inventor of the telegraph applied…