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Advocates argue over future of net neutrality
"“A first-year law student at a bad law school could see that Title II is the only way to ban fast lanes,” Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Inte…
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Is It Time For A U.S. Agency Dedicated To Robotics?
"We’ve got cars without drivers out there. Companies are testing drone delivery. Specialized robots are being used inside and outside factories. Ethical, s…
Open Internet Roundtable - Policy Approaches
Prof. Barbara van Schewick participated in the FCC's Open Internet Roundtable on September 16, 2014. The internet roundtable series provides an opportunity…
More Than 3 Million Told the FCC What They Think About Net Neutrality. Why Hasn't Obama?
The FCC has received more than 3 million comments on Commissioner Tom Wheeler’s controversial plan to rethink net neutrality. If the last couple of million comm…
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10 Horrifying Technologies That Should Never Be Allowed To Exist
"The idea that technology is neutral or amoral is a myth that needs to be dispelled. The designer can imbue ethics into the creation, even if the artifact…
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Why We Need a Federal Robotics Commission
"The idea for a federal robotics commission came out of workshop of a paper that author Ryan Calo (who will, in the interest of full disclosure, be a parti…
Only Title II will ensure fairness among ISPs
Last Wednesday, more than 300,000 people contacted the White House and their representatives in Congress on a day of action calling for a free and open Internet…
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Momentum is building for a net neutrality compromise
"Speaking at an FCC roundtable Tuesday, Stanford University net neutrality scholar Barbara van Schewick said that, under certain conditions, letting Intern…
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Introducing Christopher Sprigman
For the full profile of CIS Affiliate Scholar Christopher Sprigman, visit NYU Law Magazine. One afternoon last October when Christopher Sprigman heard that the…
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The covert cellphone tracking tech the RCMP and CSIS won’t talk about
"“These devices are thus far more covert in operation – indeed effectively invisible – but they can only detect signals of nearby phones when those phones…
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Why the U.S. might just need a Federal Commission on Robots
"Why does the United States needs a new federal commission focused solely on understanding our robot future? The real question is, why don't we? Ryan…
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European Public Libraries Have the Right to Digitize Works in their Collections with Some Limitations
On September 11, 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided Technische Universität Darmstadt v Eugen Ulmer KG stating that European libraries may digitiz…