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Why Civic Tech Is The Next Big Thing
"“I think that people inside the government want the government to do a better job,” says David Levine, an associate professor of law at Elon University Sc…
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Yes, Amazon and eBay can ban sales of Confederate merchandise. Is that good or bad?
The news that eBay and Amazon are moving to block sales of Confederate-related merchandise is causing concern among commentators like the New York Times’ Josh B…
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French Privacy Authority Orders Google to Delist RTBF Infringing Results Worldwide
A few days ago, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNiL), the French data protection authority, ordered Google to apply the right t…
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EU‐US talks to show the road ahead for automated vehicles
"‘The Vienna Convention is not just a static document ... it exists within international structures for vehicle safety and vehicle regulation,’ said Profes…
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Uber Data Collection Changes Should Be Barred, Privacy Group Urges
"“With a cellphone, the I.P. address might get you a city or part of a city,” said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford University.…
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The Hurdles Facing Autonomous Vehicles
"“The ethics are different for humans and machines,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.…
Opinion: It's time for an about-face on facial recognition
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. Until recently, concerns over facial recognition technologies were largely theoretical. Only a few companies could create datab…
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As Privacy Debate Rages, Is The Ad Industry Fresh Out Of Ideas?
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO)
Online harassment is a major problem, but it’s rarely prosecuted. If only we’d been warned about this in the early days of the internet. CIS Affiliate Scholar…
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Business roundup: Google will remove photos upon request
"Opponents of revenge porn cheered the decision. “We’ve been talking to Google for all these years,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of…
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Google to remove 'revenge porn' from search results
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in online harassment and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, applauded the move. The sear…
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You or the pedestrian: Ethics of autonomous cars making emergency decisions to save lives
"Dr Patrick Lin, director of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, wrote in 2014 that developing such a system "seems an awful lot like a…