"Previously, in the age of the studio photo, “you had to sit there and pose. You not only had to give your consent, you had to cooperate a lot,” notes Ryan…
"“When it was a very famous and beloved person’s daughter, Twitter got involved,” says Citron. “But when it’s an average person victimized by revenge porn,…
""Law enforcement is behind the times on this," said Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law and the a…
"Marvin Ammori, a 1st Amendment scholar and a fellow at the New America Foundation, said social media networks have to grapple with being the modern town s…
Despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s 2013 campaign promises to lighten internet censorship, little has changed in the way of content filtering or bloggers…
"Andrew McLaughlin was the director of global public policy for Google from 2004 to 2009, and served as a deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United Sta…
""If suing him makes no economic sense, then it makes no sense to sue any podcaster," notes Nazer. "We hope that Personal Audio’s public sta…
Climate change is a significant and complex problem facing the world today. To solve the problem will require the coordinated efforts of both the public and pri…
Do you remember that day when you lost your mind? You aimed your car at five random people down the road. By the time you realized what you were doing, it was t…
Cross posted from Slate. Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New…
Within the next few years, autonomous vehicles—alias robot cars—could be weaponized, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fears. In a recently disclosed…
""We're looking down the road," said Daniel Nazer, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports patent reform. "Whe…