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Stanford Research Is Independent
Julia Angwin’s blog post today is incorrect. Stanford never promised not to use Google money for privacy research. In 2014, the Center for Internet and Society…
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Time for a Federal Robotics Agency
"“There are significant challenges in getting technologists into federal government,” Calo told Truthdig. He argues that an agency that could gather the fo…
Episode #41: Who Owns That Joke
CIS Affiliate Scholar Christopher Sprigman comments on Infinite Guest: Life of the Law. "If someone stole something from you — let’s say, your TV — you’d…
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New Level of Smartphone Encryption Alarms Law Enforcement
""All of a sudden, a for-profit company has decided, 'We're going to step in and be the first line of defense for customers against their own…
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Are You Camera Ready? Police Body Cams Are Here
"“They are a great record of what happens during these police encounters,” said Michelle Richardson, Public Policy Director for the ACLU of Florida. “We th…
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Are you ready to fly on a pilotless plane?
"Perhaps not, says Bryant Walker Smith, a lawyer who researches risk and technology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, but airlines might be…
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New book on hate crime proposes civil rights for a networked age
"In law professor Danielle Citron's book, "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," she suggests legal and ethical remedies that may help people who are t…
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One scholar thinks online harassment of women is a civil rights issue
"University of Maryland legal scholar Danielle Citron is a leading expert on these issues. She says that when she started talking about them in 2008, she h…
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Cyberbullying, sexting remain major problems despite heightened awareness
"If anything, sexting (which can involve teens sending nude images to one another) seems to have become even more common among teens and even pre-teens, Pr…
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UC-Berkeley's Catherine Crump
"After nine years as an American Civil Liberties Union litigator, most recently working on privacy and technology issues, Catherine Crump is in her first s…
America Needs a Federal Robotics Agency
Ryan Calo is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law. A host of emerging technologies require a coordinated set of laws and regulat…
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Barred From Facebook, and Wondering Why
"Professor Citron, author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” said of Facebook, “I think it’s a positive thing that they’re allowed to set community norms.” Th…