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Would You Trust a Lawyer Bot With Your Legal Needs?
"“As soon as there’s some complexity or some resistance by the system, the automation is unable to handle it,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
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The fallacy behind private surveillance cameras in San Francisco
By Jennifer King and Jennifer King is director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, jenking@law.stanford.edu. Jael…
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A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
""Since the Golden State killer case kind of exploded, we've seen there are risks to law enforcement authorities wanting to have access to that da…
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This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as “privacy protests,” where individuals want t…
“Reengineering Humanity” and the Arctic Code Vault
The late Stephen Hawking famously warned that Artificial Intelligence might someday become so clever as to supersede humans. But academic and author, Brett Fri…
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Donald Trump Says He’s Going to Ban TikTok. But Can He Actually Do That?
"With any internet platform, “we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,…
Redesigning Data Privacy: Reimagining Notice & Consent for human technology interaction
The World Economic Forum partnered with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a community of policy-makers, researchers, civil society…
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What Does Retribution Mean Now? Thoughts on COVID-19, Prison, and Schadenfreude
I want to share some musings I had about what criminal punishment means right now in America. I don’t really write about the basics of criminal law and procedur…
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As facial recognition draws scrutiny nationwide, Stanford research raises questions closer to home
“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Co…
Schrems II Offers an Opportunity—If the U.S. Wants to Take It
The Schrems II judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will reshape the relationship between national security and global data flows. By i…
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Police Requests for Google Users’ Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed t…