Social Media Needs Limitations Not Choices
Social Media is always updating to give people more. More features like video and picture sharing. More freedom to use third-party apps. More capacity to store…
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What Ex Machina's Alex Garland Gets Wrong About Artificial Intelligence
Ex Machina opens this weekend. Its director, Alex Garland of 28 Days Later acclaim, appeared on Marketplace today to discuss the role of artificial intelligence…
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Fact-checking John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance
"Other experts pointed out that we don’t know for sure what happens to these exchanges when they are collected. Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at S…
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How Do You Make Laws For Killer Robots?
"The conference was organized by UW professor Ryan Calo. He said there’s a role for regulation of robot use in politics to influence elections or deceptive…
Granick Says People Should Be More Outraged About Internet Privacy
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that people aren't really understanding how the Interne…
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Chicago man sues Facebook over facial recognition use in “Tag Suggestions”
"Strahilevitz told Ars that Yana Welinder, a lawyer and legal fellow with Stanford University, wrote ajournal article in 2012 in the Harvard Law Review tou…
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Indian or American? Why fight over yoga in US schools can tie us up in knots
"While yoga indisputably comes from India, a headstand in Pune is not that different from a headstand in San Francisco. And that says Sonia Katyal, law pro…
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Privacy and Depression Do Not Crash Planes
Cross-posted from The International Association of Privacy Professionals. Privacy does not cause airplanes to crash; neither does pilot depression. The wave of…
Bloomberg Law: Using Facebook to Serve Divorce Papers
David Levine, a professor at Elon University School of Law, and Stephanie Blum, a founding partner at Reuben Racher & Blum, discuss a Manhattan Supreme Cour…
Promoting Norms for Cyberspace
The United States defined its preferred cyberspace norms—Internet openness, security, liberty, free speech, and with minimal government oversight and surveillan…
Why it’s so hard to create norms in cyberspace
The Council on Foreign Relations is launching a new set of Policy Briefs on cybersecurity policy – it published my contribution today. My brief responds to rece…
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Turkey Blocks Facebook, Twitter and YouTube over Images of Public Prosecutor Held Hostage
Today, a court in Istanbul ordered the ban of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube over the publication of the picture of a public prosecutor held hostage by extreme-L…