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California approves test of self-driving cars on public roads
"Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), told Ars that the new rules could change how manufacturers proceed…
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Green Party to FCC: Instead of tampering with Net Neutrality, make Internet a free public resource
"An amended FCC proposal in response to the public outcry shows concessions but maintains pay-to-play access fees and a new standard that “creates high cos…
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What you really agree to when you click 'accept'
"Aleecia McDonald is the director of privacy at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. She notes that "such as" opens the…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt proposes democratic action in response to our government’s secret infrastructure for monitoring and controlling modern communications. “Citizens,” he…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt calls for alternatives to framing surveillance issues in terms of privacy versus security, but the hard fact is that we cannot avoid tradeoffs. We ha…
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After 'Net Neutrality' Proposal, Political Storm Brews
""A lot of us supported Obama because he was so passionate in his support of net neutrality," said Marvin Ammori, a lawyer involved in technology…
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Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked
"“We cannot even conceive of the ways our data is collected and then used to manipulate us at our weakest moments,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor a…
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Comments from the Hoover Institution Event on Intelligence Challenges
Yesterday I attended a conference at the Hoover Institution on “Intelligence Challenges.” I also spoke on a panel in the morning about Civil Liberties. A versio…
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This Week in Review: Behind The Times’ big change, and the FCC’s proposal moves forward
"Stanford’s Barbara van Schewick and Morgan Weiland called the reported revisions a good start, with a long way yet to go." * Date Published:05/16/2…
FCC To Unveil Proposed Rules To Govern Internet Traffic
""If I'm a church or a university, I can put my content online, when it travels to my users it will get the same treatment that, you know, CNN'…
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The Biggest Filer of Copyright Lawsuits? This Erotica Web Site
"Ben Depoorter, a professor at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, said that there is no U.S. government enforcement agency tasked with…
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At times, Netflix movies make up a third of traffic
Listen to the full interview at Marketplace. "Netflix accounts for about a third of peak-period broadband traffic. So what does that mean for the net neut…