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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…
Peter Asaro - Hearsay Culture Show #236 - 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…
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Verizon's AOL Deal Could Lead to New Privacy Problems
""With this acquisition, Verizon appears to be tearing down the wall between telecommunications and personalized advertising," said Jonathan Maye…
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Cops must now get a warrant to use stingrays in Washington state
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, also welcomed the news. "Stingrays are exactly the sort of invasive surv…
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Self-driving cars are getting into accidents in California
"It's a mistake to draw conclusions about self-driving vehicles from the recent crashes, said Bryant Walker Smith, who is both a law and engineering pr…
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Self-Driving Cars Can't Avoid Accidents on California Roads
""Assuming that you are not dead, you are in a much better positon than if you had been hit by an ordinary, human-driven vehicle," said Bryant Wa…
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Google’s driverless cars have been involved in three car accidents
"“It’s a tenuous stretch of that provision to say that it also covers autonomous vehicle reports,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lawyer with the Center for I…
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Tracing Some of Big Data’s Big Paradoxes
"Professor Richards called attention to what he calls the “Three Paradoxes of Big Data,” and began his presentation with a cartoon depicting a patient at a…
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What we know and what we don’t know about accidents involving self-driving cars
"“As automated systems get more complex, human understanding also gets more complex. For a vehicle to suddenly swerve to the right, a human would have to g…