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Google snoops on Gmail to catch pedophiles
"Ryan Calo, a tech policy expert at the University of Washington School of Law, said that if Google "decided to take it upon themselves to police othe…
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Prof. Frederick Schauer - Hearsay Culture Show #221 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Monkey selfie ignites a copyright dispute
""Let's say that that the monkey had eaten a bunch of bananas and had piled the banana peels on the jungle floor," said Bridges. "If a p…
Profs. James Grimmelmann and David Post - Hearsay Culture Show #220 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
The Case for Net Neutrality
For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure…
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USA v. Microsoft: what the decision does and doesn't mean
Somehow we went from mild interest in December when Microsoft challenged a search warrant over user data stored in Ireland to some kind of frenzy today when Chi…
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UK Parliament's Committee Labelled the "Right to be Forgotten" as Misguided and Unworkable
The European Union Committee of the UK Parliament released a report on the implications of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent Google Spain decision: &…
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Australian Government's Leaked Proposal to Force ISPs to Monitor Copyright Infringement
A discussion paper from the Australian Government titled "Online Copyright Infringement" leaked a few days ago. The paper included proposals to amend…
David Zweig - Hearsay Culture Show #219 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Britain has ambitious plan for driverless cars, but roadblocks remain
"“It’s an early statement by a national government that this is a policy priority," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate law professor at the Univer…
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Singapore’s Amended Anti-Piracy Copyright Act Enables Streamlined Site-Blocking
Singapore Parliament just passed an anti-piracy amendment to its Copyright Act, which aims to block “flagrantly infringing online location” such as The Pirate B…
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British Columbia Court of Appeal Refuses to Stay Enforcement in Equustek Solutions v. Google
As reported here, on June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered Google to block a website worldwide in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. Later,…