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Government Cheating on the Sotomayor Surveillance Scale
In her concurring opinion in US v. Jones, 565 U.S. ___ (2012), Justice Sonia Sotomayor brought up a crucial point regarding a democracy's natural acceptance…
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State-Level Cyber Security Efforts: The Garden State Model
No state has emerged as "the" model for cyber security policy and information sharing; nor is any likely to - given the varying needs, resources, and…
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The Air Force Wants You to Trust Robots. Should You?
"Automation extends far beyond the battlefield, sometimes with profound implications. Peter Asaro, a philosopher who studies artificial intelligence, says…
Leave the cheaters in peace: If you poke around the Ashley Madison data, you're aiding and abetting the hackers
BY DANIELLE KEATS CITRON , MARAM SALAHELDIN When a person’s confidential data is exposed in violation of a legitimate expectation of privacy, it shouldn’t matt…
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Autonomous driving and the law: Who's responsible when there's a machine at the wheel?
Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina, is an internationally recognized expert on the law of self-driving vehicles and taught the…
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Startups in the Forefront of Battle Against Hackers
"“New companies that are trying to break into the market sometimes employ aggressive marketing tactics that overpromise what the company’s technology can d…
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When You Copy And Paste A Tweet, Is It Illegal?
"Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said nothing in the law dictates a tweet is automatically…
The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world (and, more important, the invention of political science)
The work of the the Roman writer Lucretius was lost to the world for more than a thousand years. When his poem “De Rerum Natura” was rediscovered in the Renaiss…
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Fake or real? Ashley Madison complaints claim accounts not legitimate
"“Often when you have numerous complaints saying the same thing, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford Universit…
The Atlantic Divide on Privacy and Speech
Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Kirsty Hughes University of Cambridge Andrew T Kenyon (ed), Comparative Defamation and…
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Ethics, law collide in questions over spotlighting Ashley Madison leak
"“Some people will say, `Well, they broke the law, they hacked into this private company’s computers and stole data.’ Yeah, that’s true. But from the other…
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Predator Drone Maker General Atomics Flying Spy Missions For the Pentagon
"Stanford ethicist Patrick Lin argues that hiring contractors for Predator ISR operations also “opens the door for outsourcing drone strikes for the first…