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…
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Open Internet Central to U.S. Trade Policy
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at the search giant, notes that several countries have responded to the Snowden reve…
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Maker of StealthGenie, an app used for spying, is indicted in Virginia
"“You have to prove this business model, the whole business model, is ‘We’re helping you commit a crime,’ ” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland…
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Whoops. 2015 Corvettes Come With Illegal Spying Feature.
"“It’s really the interior audio that triggers various wiretap laws,” says Ryan Calo of the University of Washington School of Law. “But not if the owner w…