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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…
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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…