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Tesla and Liability
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had som…
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5 Ways We Must Regulate Drones at the US Border
"Because one thing we can’t overlook is that drones at the border can be invaluable. “Let’s not have a failure of imagination of how useful these things ar…
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Cyberattack affects 1.1 million CareFirst customers
""The information they got may or may not be useful directly, but it could help a bad guy get more clues about a person's identity," he said.…
Prof. Gabriella Coleman - Hearsay Culture Show #237 - 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…
CPJ joins call urging White House to protect encryption for journalists
Journalists are safest when their devices are secure by default. That is why the Committee to Protect Journalists today joined a coalition of nearly 150 civil s…
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Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
"For the first time, in March, an autonomous car drove itself from San Francisco to New York City. How is that even legal? That’s the kind of question Brya…
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453 days later...
Welcome news today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. By a vote of 11 to 1, the court overturned its injunction against the controversial video…
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Why Google’s Self-Driving Bubble Cars Might Catch On
"That still gives the design a lot of scope as an urban taxi, says Bryant Walker Smith, an expert on autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolin…
Brown Bag Lunch Series | Jennifer Granick discusses Surveillance
Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, presented her work with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and the impacts of Edward Snowden.…
Marketplace Tech for Monday, May 18, 2015
Ryan Calo, Assistant Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, talks about testing…
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NSA ruling reveals the harm of secrecy to the nation
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Legal, But Real Rules Would Be Nice
"“That may force very difficult questions about what the legal regulation of the driver should be,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the…