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Plate and Switch: Google’s Self-Driving Car Is a Transformer Too
"Bryant Walker Smith is a law professor at the University of South Carolina and chair of the Emerging Technology Law Committee of the Transportation Resear…
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All States Should Outlaw Revenge Porn
Cross-posted from Slate. This essay is excerpted from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, by Danielle Citron, published by Harvard University Press. “Jane” allowed her…
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Police want back doors in smartphones, but you never know who else will open them
"“People are starting to be sensitized that there is a right way and a wrong way to do data security,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties a…
Facebook calls in the philosophers
Facebook's announcement — establishing guidelines, review processes, training and enhanced transparency for research projects — marks another milestone in t…
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Facebook Promises Deeper Review of User Research, but Is Short on the Particulars
"“This is a company whose lifeblood is consumer data. So mistrust by the public, were it to reach too critical a point, would pose an existential threat to…
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A British troll was just jailed for his tweets. Here’s why that will (probably!) never happen in the U.S.
"“We have a much higher standard in the U.S. when it comes to what constitutes threatening speech,” Citron explained. And even if a Twitter threat or a fri…
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Can you shoot down a drone on your land? New incident raises self-defense questions
"“Generally speaking, tort law frowns on self-help and that includes drones,” says Ryan Calo, a robotics and cyber-law scholar at the University of Washing…
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The Need for a New Agency to Regulate Robots
"Emerging technologies often generate a great debate over the efficacy of new federal regulations. In the past, the government has had to adapt to new tech…
Building Moral Robots, With Whose Morals?
Listen to CIS Affiliate Scholar Peter Asaro on NPR: http://capeandislands.org/post/building-moral-robots-whose-morals…
Killer Robots + Ancient Rules of War = Trouble
Listen to the full piece at New Tech City. A version of this story won the German Prize for Innovation Journalism. It aired on Deutschlandfunk by Thomas Reintj…
The battle over which company has your number
Listen to the full piece at Marketplace.org. "Now Neustar might lose the contract to Ericsson, which is based in Sweden. Neustar says this would be bad fo…
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The Solace of Oblivion
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said recently. “When it comes to privacy, the United St…