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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…
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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…