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The Right Way to Fix the Internet
"Barbara van Schewick, a leading Internet scholar at Stanford and a former member of Lessig’s research team, expresses concern that if profit-hungry compan…
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A Million Peeping Toms: When Hacking Is Also a Hate Crime
"“There is no denying the blunt truth of [Lawrence’s] words: she alone has the right to control access to her naked body, and anyone who violates that righ…
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Right to Be Forgotten: Google Sentenced to Pay Damages in Spain
The CJEU judgment on the right to be forgotten, Google Spain v. Mario Costeja, hit the search engine on an unexpected front – damages. On the basis of the CJEU’…
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What happens to tech policy if Republicans take the Senate?
"It is unclear when the FCC will act, but the calendar is important here. It's probably better for neutrality advocates all around if the rules get a c…
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Commentary: Robots are not here to take your jobs
""We are becoming more familiar with robots, but their sophistication has not changed much," assures U.S. robotics law and policy expert Ryan Cal…
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Shhh! Last Week Was All About Secrets
This week's Monday Reflection on Just Security is from me, spilling the beans about all of last week's secrecy news, from Twitter and EFF on NSLs to Jam…
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Mega and Other File-Hosting Services’ Blockade is Overbroad, Italian Authorities Say
As we reported here, this summer an Italian court blocked access to several websites for copyright infringement, including Mega and the Russian Internet giant M…
An argument for a federal robotics commission
"Ryan Calo, Assistant Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, joined us to…
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Bitcoin Miners Debate Risks and Rewards at Las Vegas Convention
"Narayanan argued that game theorists who work in the bitcoin space need to do a better job of interfacing with other parts of the ecosystem in order to ob…
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Victims of Online Crimes Are Finally Getting Justice—as Long as They’re Rich and Famous
"Ordinary people have “a really difficult time getting law enforcement’s attention” in cases of online stalking, threats, and revenge porn, says Danielle C…
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Q&A: Robots and the law
"Should driverless cars be allowed on the roads? Should robots capable of thought be accorded rights as sentient beings? Ryan Calo, a lawyer at the Univers…
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A glimpse into the future: Will our robots have legal rights?
"The latest edition of Science features a multi-part report on the current state of robotics and its future. Leaving aside the discussions therein of pure…