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Tune Your Engine - driverless car technology
"Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology.&qu…
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How Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy
"A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society in the “Weev” case), arguing h…
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Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
Cross-posted from EFF. Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for…
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Should CalPERS post pensioners' financial data online?
""I call obscurity 'pretty good privacy,'" Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy expert affiliated with Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Calling All Big Data Experts for Amicus Brief in Phone Records Surveillance Cases
As you may know, both the ACLU and EPIC have brought legal challenges to the NSA's collection of Americans' phone records and related traffic data (meta…
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Under Pressure, Google May Slow Rollout of Driverless Car Technology
"“I am convinced that when the technology is ready, the law and policy will make room,” Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford Law School fellow who organized the…
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Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
"Whether the government could obtain a user's login information with a wiretap order is an "unanswered legal question" in the United States,…
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Rumor: Banks are spying on your smartphone's location
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and advisory board member at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said…
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Clever Hacks Give Google Glass Many Unintended Powers
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in new technologies and privacy, has suggested that gadgets like Google Glass o…
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White House Weighs in on ‘Google’ Cars
"But in return for assuming greater liability, car makers may want to move from a sales model to a lease model, or transportation as a service, according t…
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Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday
'"At first, we didn't think it posed much of a privacy problem," Crump said. The ACLU saw a system that triggered a real-time alert to the pre…
Valentin Dander - Hearsay Culture - Show #189 - 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…