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The Risks of Regulating Zero-Days
Among the principles that govern the current state of technology, two stand out as fundamental to our understanding of the information security problem. First,…
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Other Europeans say they can’t trust Greece. The problem goes both ways.
Yet again, Greece is in last ditch negotiations with other European states in the euro zone, the group of countries that share the common currency, over a propo…
Opinion: Vaccination of immigrants without consent in Dilley was flagrant abuse
On the evening of Friday July 3, we became aware of a particular incident of our government’s systematic mistreatment of hundreds of young, captive children and…
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Matusiewiczes guilty of cyberstalking resulting in death
"A lot is riding on this appeal because the cyberstalking statute is already rarely used, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryla…
Wendell Wallach - Hearsay Culture Show #240 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
What the Future of Self-Driving Cars Might Look Like
Self-driving cars – long the dream of science fiction, are closer to reality than you might think. In fact they’ve already traveled more than one million miles…
Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries
Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both…
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How technology could kill the art of lying
"Online advertising companies, for instance, can collect huge amounts of information about a person's browsing history, which can reveal "a very c…
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Move to combat piracy could increase Internet harassment, activists say
"According to Danielle Citron, a cyber-law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, the ICANN policy is &q…
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Industry calls on lawmakers to re-examine rules for self-driving cars
"According to a 2014 law review article by Bryant Walker Smith, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, many st…
Preparedness Insanity: Why We Need To Think Differently About How To Measure Preparedness
By: Terry Hastings and Brian Nussbaum Since 9/11, there have been billions of federal grant dollars awarded to state and local governments and an ongoing quest…
Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
BY STEPHEN LAPORTE AND AERYN PALMER The ability to freely share information of all kinds, from text to images, is core to Wikimedia’s mission of making all kno…