An open Internet, for God’s sake!
This week, a handful of Republicans will hold hearings on the Hill to challenge new federal rules protecting the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission…
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What Net Neutrality Really Means For Religious Freedom
When the FCC announced recently that it would adopt new regulations for the Internet – regulations commonly known as Net Neutrality – the announcement was widel…
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Net Neutrality Part 2: Rules Praised, Questions Remain
“This vote is among the greatest public-interest victories in U.S. history,” says Barbara van Schewick, who is faculty director of Stanford University’s Center…
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The State Department’s cyber infrastructure is in need of an overhaul
""The State Department definitely has some work to do," said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer affiliated with Stanford Law School&…
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The Looming Threat of Artificial Unintelligence
"“I'm worried that there could be some unanticipated, emergent phenomenon,” says Calo. “For instance, maybe it'll turn out that lots and lots of pe…
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Automated cars and AI: reasons why the tech industry must consider ethics
""Make the ethics programming in an autonomous car transparent in order to set expectations with users and society, and be able to defend those progra…
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The right to be forgotten from Google? Forget it, says U.S. crowd
"Digg CEO McLaughlin, who also is a lawyer and former director of public policy at Google, blasted the European court’s “irrelevant” and “inadequate” stand…
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Posting drone videos to YouTube could get you into hot water
"Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington and co-director of the school's Tech Policy Lab, told Mashable said this is an &…
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Experts believe Clinton emails could be recovered
"Stanford computer researcher Jonathan Mayer pushed back at the notion that Clinton used a “homebrew” email system, and said it clearly had “nontrivial sec…
Jack Rabid - Hearsay Culture Show #232 - 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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An Axl Rose sample used in a mash up doesn't smell as sweet.
The bright lines of the real property based view of copyright are being blurred by technology. In 1991, Mr. Biz Markee was found liable for infringing Mr. Gilbe…
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How an advertising company put a ‘marijuana cookie’ on your computer to get weed legalized
“This kind of behavioral and demographic targeting has been going on [in business] since the early 2000s,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer scientist…