Why We Need a Federal Agency on Robotics
The robots are no longer coming; they are here. And the law's response has been lacking. Many believe that the Federal Aviation Administration has overstepp…
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We need to be pragmatic about the principle of net neutrality
"Net neutrality created what the Stanford scholar Barbara van Schewick calls “an architecture for permissionless innovation”." * Date Published:11/2…
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EU Data Protection Authority Adopts Guidelines on the Implementation of the Right to be Forgotten
On November 26, 2014, the European data protection authorities (DPAs) assembled in the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted guidelines on the implementation…
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Now, Anyone Can Buy a Drone. Heaven Help Us.
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who studies drones, said the troublemaking should come as no surprise. “It would be the rare t…
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Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption
"“It’s part of what I think is going to be the next biggest fight that we see on surveillance as everyone starts to implement encryption,” said Jennifer Gr…
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Those Amazon Delivery Drones? Not So Fast
"The FAA’s planned rule “is going to be a serious limiter,” said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who studies robotics policy. “If they…
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Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech?
"‘'We usually think of freedom of speech as enhancing liberty, but this is speech that takes away someone else’s liberty,'’ said Danielle Citron, a…
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Programming how self-driving cars handle dilemmas is a challenge
"“This is one of the most profoundly serious decisions we can make. Program a machine that can foreseeably lead to someone’s death,” Lin said. “When we mak…
Driverless Cars & Road Rules
"CCTV America’s Michelle Makori interviewed Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law and School of Engineering at the University of So…
New autonomous cars could ease and complicate the future of driving
CCTV America’s Michelle Makori interviewed Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law and School of Engineering at the University of South Ca…
Prof. Ed Felten - Hearsay Culture Show #225 - 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…
Prof. Stephen Turner - Hearsay Culture Show #226 - 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…