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‘Zero-Rating’ Issue Continues in the Net Neutrality Debate
"Wikipedia Zero, which is limited to developing countries, “might make sense” in such places where people make a dollar a day and where there’s little infr…
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Just Because a Hate Crime Occurs on the Internet Doesn’t Mean It’s Not a Hate Crime
Cross-posted from Time. Let's talk about nude photo leaks and other forms of online harassment as what they are: civil rights violations Over the past few…
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Study: Robotic Surgery More Costly For Ovarian Problems
"“Hospitals and the government need to be experts at assessing when something is going to be ready for prime time,” said Calo, who recently authored a Broo…
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Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name
"“I cannot imagine she thought that this would be a use that she consented to,” the University of Washington’s Calo said." * Date Published:10/06/20…
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US Needs a New Robotics Agency or the Machine Overlords Will Win … Or Something
"Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington, conceded a "Federal Robotics Commission" would be small by agency standar…
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Who Should Be Unmasked on the Internet?
"A new proposal from the cyberlaw scholar Danielle Citron in her new book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, suggests how sites dedicated to protecting its users’…
A cop may be following you everywhere
Cross-posted from CNN. The crackdown on protesters after the police shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, highlighted that more and more, police…
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Drones and Everything After
"“The idea I’m trying to work out to simplify this whole thing — surveillance, drones, robots — has to do with superhero ethics,” says Patrick Lin, a techn…
Introduction to Astronaut Bioethics
Cross-posted by Slate. By Patrick Lin and Keith Abney Disaster can happen at any moment in space exploration. “A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow…
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“Tool Without A Handle” “Justified Regulation (Part 2 – Privacy)
This blog moves from discussion of cases of justified and widely supported regulation to examine current topics that are more complex and more hotly contested.…
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Tying up the cable business
"“It is such a revolving door at the FCC and Congress that you can’t keep track of whether people are cable lobbyists or working in government,” says Marvi…
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Announcing the We Robot 2015 Call for Papers
The program commitee invites submissions for the fourth annual robotics law and policy conference—We Robot 2015—to be held in Seattle, Washington on April 10-11…