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Rules for Self-Driving Cars in Legal Gray Area
""They're probably legal already, and that's true in pretty much most states," said Bryant Walker Smith, a legal expert and fellow at the…
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'Do not track'? Oh what the heck, go ahead
""The original idea was to replace a variety of opt-out mechanisms with a browser preference," said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professo…
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UAVs in civil
English translation: "The National Commission for Data Protection ( CNIL ) does not sound the tocsin against civilian drones, but it intends to encourage t…
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California offers privacy policies and do not track disclosures guide
""I applaud the California Attorney General's publication of best practices for communicating with citizens about privacy. Their common-sense reco…
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USA Freedom Act: Oh, Well. Whatever. Nevermind.
Over at Just Security, I have a post about the latest iteration of the USA Freedom Act. Basically, civil liberties groups are withdrawing support for the bill b…
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Lavabit’s Owner Goes Public: His Legal Ordeal Makes For Bad Law
Over at Just Security, I have a post about Ladar Levinson's legal tribulations connected to DOJ's efforts to get his service's encryption key. I arg…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…
Adapting the Vehicle to a New Society: How Will Shifting Attitudes and Vehicle Technology Change the Way We Drive?
The automobile has proven to be one of the most popular and transformational transport technologies ever. Now, however, slightly more than a century after its i…
Prof. Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog - Hearsay Culture Show #213 - 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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Something Interesting in California's New Automated Vehicle Testing Rule
After a great deal of careful work, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) today released its final rule for the testing of "autonomous vehicles…
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Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA
""When this technology disseminates down to local government and local police, there are not the same accountability mechanisms in place. You can see…
Google Can’t Forget You, But It Should Make You Hard to Find
Cross-posted from Wired. Co-authored with Evan Selinger. As soon as news spread that the European Court of Justice now requires search engines like Google to…