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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…
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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…
ACLU v. Clapper Will End the Telephone Dragnet
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last week’s dramatic Second Circuit decision in ACLU v. Clapper, invalidated the alleged legal basis for the NSA domestic phon…
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Google’s Homemade Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads This Summer
"“The DMV and especially the state legislature, only listening to Google, wrote a law that was fine for Google but was really problematic for car manufactu…
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Automated Vehicle Crashes
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated v…
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The State Department’s Weary Soldier in America’s Cyber War
"“The United States is in a very unique position. It’s definitely in a class of its own when it comes to cyber offensive operations,” said Henry Farrell, a…
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Who’s Responsible when a Driverless Car Crashes? Tesla’s Got an Idea
"“Tesla is venturing into the mushy middle of automation, where the human still performs part of the driving task, the computer performs other parts,” said…
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Chilling Scenarios That Keep Privacy and Security Experts Up at Night
"Whether it’s drones or commercial robots, the ability for hackers to gain access to these devices opens up a world of liability questions, with no answers…
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April 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
April 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-april/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the…