Ferguson’s government was run like a racket
Ta-Nehisi Coates is combing through the Department of Justice report on racism in Ferguson and finding evidence that the local government saw its inhabitants, w…
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What we know about Hillary Clinton's personal email system
"Right now, we have "limited technical evidence" about Clinton's email system, said Jonathan Mayer, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at…
Jonathan Mayer - Hearsay Culture Show #231 - 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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Regulator accused of overstepping on cybersecurity enforcement
Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University and noted expert on the FTC, argued that a decision against the commission could harm consumers. “The FTC…
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Internet Memes And 'The Right To Be Forgotten'
But the Internet is a difficult place to police. "The law is frankly very ill-suited to respond to that," says Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor…
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Internet survives day of weird politics
As for the politics, Barbara van Schewick, an Internet expert at Stanford Law School, offers a wildly different analysis of why Google and the others didn’t rus…
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Sex, Love, and Robots
"One result of this influx of robots into our bedrooms is that it may "trigger a broader role for the concept of moral harm in law," suggests Uni…
Net Neutrality Memories National Call
Luminaries from the decade-long fight for Net Neutrality share stories and memories of the movement. Listen to the Net Neutrality Memories National Call at Sou…
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Whatsapp at Risk of Suspension of Services in Brazil
A few weeks ago, a judge of the state of Piauí, in Brazil, ordered Whatsapp to suspend its activities in the country. The judge has also issued orders for the s…
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NYPD to conduct “virtual stakeouts,” get alerts on wanted cars nationwide
""Vigilant Video is compiling a vast database tracking Americans’ movements, and it’s no surprise that one of the most prolific users of surveillance,…
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Will You Need a New License to Operate a Self-Driving Car?
"“Today, drivers are not trained or tested for that change in control,” says Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California…
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How Superfish’s Security-Compromising Adware Came to Inhabit Lenovo’s PCs
"“The padlock is a means of telling you that who you are talking to is who you think you are talking to. Superfish made that mechanism ineffective,” said J…