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Does Your Lyft Driver Have Car Insurance?
"“The two biggest questions that we face are: Can these peer-to-peer ride sharing companies get insurance? And can the individuals get insurance?” Walker s…
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New Just Security Post: We All Go Down Together
I have a new post up at Just Security today. In it, I point to the fact that ongoing NSA revelations show that significant surveillance activities are taking…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
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We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
Prof. Chris Marsden and Ian Brown - Hearsay Culture - Show #194 - 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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Cal Poly Philosophy Professor Receives NSF Grant for Cyberwarfare Project
"Cal Poly Philosophy Professor Patrick Lin received a grant of nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Safeguarding Cyberspace with…
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Q&A: Privacy implications for aerial drones
"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…
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Hackathons for the rest of us
"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…
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The NEXA Center Responds to the Italian Communication Authority Proposal on Online Copyright Enforcement
The Nexa Center for Internet and Society, an interdisciplinary research center based at the Polytechnic of Turin, has recently published its observations on the…
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The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
"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…
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
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…
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The 12 Most Important Questions About Self-Driving Cars
"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…