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NRC Report on Bulk Collection of SIGINT: Technical Options
Hot off the press ... Via the Abstract: The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in President…
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Solon Barocas - Hearsay Culture Show #227 - 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…
Ongwen Onward to the Hague: Lord’s Resistance Army commander to face justice
Media are reporting that Dominic Ongwen, the Joseph Kony deputy who defected last week from the Lord’s Resistance Army, will be transferred to the International…
Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence?
Listen to the full interview with Ryan Calo at BBC The Inquiry. Billions of dollars are pouring into the latest investor craze: artificial intelligence. But se…
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Making Sure the “Trolley Problem” Doesn’t Derail Life-Saving Innovation
"I want to highlight an important new blog post (“Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley“) on the ethical trade-offs at work with autonomous vehicle system…
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The Reception of Google Spain v Costeja in Germany: Obedience and Disobedience
National courts continue to try to interpret what the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) Google Spain v Costeja (Right to Be Forgotten) ruling means. On Dece…
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Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year. In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argu…
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Who Owns Yoga?
"“While yoga certainly originated in India,” says Sonia Katyal, a law professor at Fordham University who specializes in intellectual property, “its widesp…
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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information - understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)
Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…
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Je Suis Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg's Post Raises Free Speech Questions
"Implementing a pro-speech policy internationally has its own challenges because — even in the West — there is not a unified legal approach to protecting f…
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Death by Robot
"A robot’s lack of emotion is precisely what makes many people uncomfortable with the idea of trying to give it human characteristics. Death by robot is an…