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The Murky Legal World of the DNA You Leave Behind at Restaurants
"Or think of it this way, says University of California Davis School of Law professor Elizabeth Joh, who’s proposed laws against DNA theft: Do you have any…
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Zombie cookies: How Verizon Wireless’s ‘supercookies’ make it even harder to avoid being tracked online
"With Turn, Mayer said he has found the smoking gun showing the risks to consumers posed by the Verizon Wireless supercookie are more than theoretical. &q…
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The Criminalization of Cryptography
Following the recent data breaches at Sony and the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, certain politicians have wasted no time calling for increased…
Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: What a Nondiscrimination Rule Should Look Like
Download article from the Stanford Law Review.Over the past ten years, the debate over “network neutrality” has remained one of the central debates in Internet…
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UK And US To Stage Cyber War Games To Test Banks
"Andrew McLaughlin, former internet adviser to Mr Obama, said: "Slow hand clap for David Cameron, whose proposal to ban encrypted COMMS (leaving UK wi…
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In Surprising Move, Sprint Endorses Net Neutrality
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer for the tech industry who supports net neutrality, told HuffPost that "an open Internet is good for all carriers and their sh…
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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…
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…