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Colorado police used Spotify to find abducted kids in Mexico
"This is a classic case of "information asymmetry," said University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, meaning when companies, government age…
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Real Family Values: Planning for a Future that Ensures Dignity for an Aging Population
In the coming years, our nation will face myriad challenges related to the care of the growing number of aging Americans. Elder care encompasses many things, fr…
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Should We Have Laws to Control Robots Before They Control Us?
"Robotics is shaping up to be the next transformative technology of our time, says legal expert Ryan Calo, who argues in a new paper that we need laws to d…
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Online comment forums to continue despite ECHR ruling
"According to some interpretations, the verdict indicates that the media are responsible for the comments posted by anonymous users. Such explanation is, h…
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We're going to have to change our laws to cope with robots
""Technology has not stood still," he wrote in an article in the California Law Review journal. "The same private institutions that develop…
The Iran deal reflects the U.S.’s overwhelming power over the world’s financial system
There is good reason to believe that Iran was prepared to reach a deal over its nuclear program because it was tired of dealing with U.S. sanctions. In Presiden…
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50 Cent filed for bankruptcy days after losing a revenge porn lawsuit
""It's nearly impossible to get law enforcement to pay attention — and local police probably won't understand the laws, or there may not be a…
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Backdoors, Spyware, and 'Going Dark'
The past week or two have been fascinating ones for those following cyber security news… - The director of the FBI has taken to the blogosphere to further push…
The euro zone was supposed to strengthen European democracy. Instead, it’s undermining it.
Is the euro weakening democracy in Europe? After tense and bitter negotiations, Greece and the other euro zone countries (countries that share the common curre…
Hacking Team leak underscores complexity of regulating software
Among the 400 gigabytes of internal documents belonging to surveillance firm Hacking Team that were released online this week are details of the company's d…
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Robotics and the law: When software can harm you
"Recent headlines declaring “Robot Kills Man in Germany” are examples of growing news coverage about the impact of robots on society. This is the subject o…
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This teen won’t go to prison, even after he hacked 50,700 computers
"In the Finnish court, though, that's not an unusual punishment, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at…