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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…
Greece is less likely to get a deal after the referendum, but will get a better deal if it does get one
It now seems almost certain that Greece will vote no in the referendum in which Greek citizens were asked whether they wanted to accept a bailout that imposed h…
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The big bad wolf to the . . . rescue?
If you work in technology, the big bad wolf can be your best friend. Read below to find out why. A few days ago, the U.S. Supreme court denied Google's app…
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Senator Grassley Letter Asks Tough Questions on Law Enforcement Use of Spyware
This letter is pretty remarkable. It is already beginning to attract some attention. It is interesting from the perspective of both the general subject matter…
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June 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
June 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-june/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the I…
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5 questions (and answers) about robots that kill people
"After sharing a story on Twitter about a robot who killed a man in Germany, Ryan Calo, professor of robotics and cyberlaw at the University of Washington…
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You Shouldn't Be Afraid of that Killer Volkswagen Robot
"Headlines rang out across the internet yesterday that a robot killed someone in Germany. Beneath the sensationalist surface, there was a tragic truth: an…
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The Google Photos ‘gorilla’ fail won’t be the last time AIs offend us
"That’s all well and good, but what happens if they still get out of line? We all learn societal standards from a very young age, and we still commit crime…