"Cal Poly Philosophy Professor Patrick Lin received a grant of nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Safeguarding Cyberspace with…
"Al Jazeera: We're at a conference where the focus seems to be on the whiz-bangery of this technology. What's being lost in all this when it comes…
"Margaret Hagan, a Pittsburgh resident and a Stanford law school student, says she had been to six public hackathons in the last year without hearing any d…
The Nexa Center for Internet and Society, an interdisciplinary research center based at the Polytechnic of Turin, has recently published its observations on the…
"As Stanford law fellow Bryant Walker Smith has argued, automated cars are probably legal in the United States, but only because of a legal principle that…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
"Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Center for Automotive Research. He points out that a…
"“Drones are a much more visceral reminder of the surveillance state than anything the NSA is doing,” says Ryan Calo, a privacy law expert at the Universit…
On October 2, 2013, Judge Bonvicino of the Civil Court of São Paulo granted an injunction to shut down Facebook in Brazil if a discussion is not removed. The al…
The World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) is an online resource informing the public about evolving Internet regulation affecting freedom of expression and…
"Thanks to Stanford CIS and CAR fellow Bryant Walker Smith for guest-posting here at Volokh Conspiracy last week on driverless car technologies." *…
Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular for making them possible. And if you were o…