What If Your Autonomous Car Keeps Routing You Past Krispy Kreme?
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. On a future road trip, your robot car decides to take a new route, driving you past a Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop. A pop-up wind…
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FAA selects state for drone testing
"“Someday drones will be commonplace in U.S. skies and, before that happens, it’s imperative that Congress enact strong, nationwide privacy rules,” ACLU at…
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OfficeMax sends dad letter with line, 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash'
""This particular instance perfectly exemplifies a variety of concerns that people have about … vulnerability-based marketing," Calo said. "…
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OfficeMax's 'Dead Daughter' Gaffe Torpedoes Big Data
"The blunder “exemplifies very efficiently all the troubling things about data-driven marketing,” Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University o…
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New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
"“Furthermore, given how broadly it's possible to define the word ‘tip,’ we have no information on how useful those thousand tips were,” Brian Pascal,…
OfficeMax Letter To 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash' Could Be Privacy's Whale Song
Cross-posted from Forbes. The anti-whaling movement failed and failed, until it didn’t. The movement took off when, in the late nineteen-sixties, scientists a…
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Down the road, the car will take you out for a spin
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow and member of the school's Center for Automotive Research, has been looking into and blogging on those issues.…
Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. Inte…
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Bad news from the world of fracking and, even more importantly, corporate control of information
A few days ago, the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) industry was able to successfully lobby (via Halliburton) to weaken North Carolina's proposed fracking…
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Obama lays down new limits on NSA, with more reforms to come
"“Some of the most disturbing revelations that came out over the last few months were the ones surrounding the NSA's attempts to weaken or circumvent e…
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After Obama's NSA Speech, Tech Companies Wait and See
""Because they've negotiated this with the government, we still don't even have a concrete sense of the number of the things" they hand o…
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Obama NSA Reform Speech Promises Modest Changes
""It’s a good first step, but it is not nearly as far as his Review Group recommended nor as far as Congress has proposed," Michelle Richardson,…