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The law, technology and self-driving automobiles
"Bryant Walker Smith, professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, said the burden of liability is likely to shift mor…
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AT&T Offers Data Privacy — for a Price
"Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University computer scientist who focuses on online monitoring technology, said user tracking by companies that provide both wi…
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AT&T’s Offer: Share Your Data for Personalized Ads, or Pay More
"“They are ensuring that no one chooses that option because it costs so much more,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer science graduate student at…
CPJ calls on U.N. to protect use of encryption for journalists
Cross-posted from the Committee to Protect Journalists blog. For journalists to work safely they must be able to protect themselves and their sources, which is…
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Columbia can review students’ Internet activity if notified of illegal torrenting
"If the violator keeps torrenting material, the copyright holder can file a “John Doe” lawsuit. Basically, the company sues hundreds or thousands of IP add…
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Security without driver
(English translation.) "In countries where these cars are planned there are loopholes that need to be resolved, recognizes the lawyer Bryant Walker Smith o…
Elizabeth Townsend Gard and Ron Gard - Hearsay Culture Show #230 - 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…
Analysis of Proposed Network Neutrality Rules
Executive Summary Bright-line Rules. To avoid the considerable social costs associated with evaluating behavior case-by-case, behavior that is clearly harmful…
Obama says that Europeans are using privacy rules to protect their firms against U.S. competition. Is he right?
In an interview with the tech site ReCode, President Obama has suggested that European distrust of U.S. tech firms has base motivations. In his description: We…
Why Greece’s finance minister denies that he’s a game theorist
Greek finance minister and academic game theorist Yanis Varoufakis has an op-ed in the New York Times today arguing that he does not really believe in game theo…
Proposed drone rules allow limited access for some businesses
The Federal Aviation Administration has released long-awaited proposed rules to regulate commercial drone use. The rules would allow anyone over 17 to take a te…
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F.A.A. Rules Would Limit Commercial Drone Use
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, said the rules would allow many of the uses of drones that people in the commerc…