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Social networks crack down on terror posts
"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…
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Iran’s Internal Battle for Internet Control: President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Khamenei
Despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s 2013 campaign promises to lighten internet censorship, little has changed in the way of content filtering or bloggers…
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Foley video, photos being scrubbed from Twitter
"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…
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Adam Carolla settles with podcasting patent troll, agrees to ‘quiet period’
""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…
Trade Secrets and Climate Change: Uncovering Secret Solutions to the Problem of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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…
Here’s a Terrible Idea: Robot Cars With Adjustable Ethics Settings
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…
Techno Sapiens: The End of Serendipity Edition
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…
Don’t fear the robot car bomb
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…
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Patent Overhaul Effort Stalls
""We're looking down the road," said Daniel Nazer, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supports patent reform. "Whe…
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Everyone Knows Privacy Is About Power. Now What?
In a recent op-ed, author Evgeny Morozov claims that we tend to think of privacy in terms of control over personal information rather than power or influence. “…
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Researchers aim to develop hack-proof layer of cyber protection
""There is promise to this sort of technology, and it's not surprising to see NSF investing in this sort of research," said University of Mar…
Autonomous Vehicles and the Law
“You can look forward to automation as a similar set of local and national tensions and developments and opportunities,” said Bryant Walker Smith. Smith was com…