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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…
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Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin
"“There are very good reasons why we have legal and social institutions and economic intermediaries,” said Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of comp…
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Driverless cars must learn to take ethical route
“Even if it’s a rare problem, autonomous car manufacturers still need to specify some action [in the event of an unavoidable crash], and the wrong one could lea…
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The Foreign Policy Essay: The South Korean Sentry—A “Killer Robot” to Prevent War
"Given these conflicting reports, we cannot be sure that the SGR-A1 has an autonomous function. But we can confidently say that neither Samsung Techwin nor…
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FCC’s 3-2 vote codifies Net Neutrality concept
With the Net Neutrality regulations essentially giving the FCC the power to arbitrate the Internet’s open playing field, Barbara van Schewick - a Stanford Unive…