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The DNI's Non-Denial of Mass Surveillance of Americans
On Wednesday, news broke that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had been routinely collecting all call metadata on every Verizon (and presumably other tel…
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Initial thoughts on the NSA-Verizon surveillance order
UPDATE #1 (1900 ET): The WaPo and Guardian report this evening that through its PRISM program, NSA also is directly tapped into the systems of many leading Int…
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FTC's Ohlhausen: Privacy Regs Could Harm Startups
"Privacy scholar Ryan Calo has argued that creepiness in advertising can be problematic in itself. How so? He says that making people feel “creeped out” on…
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Publicity Rights vs. Public Interest: Fair Use Project Files Brief in Support of Petition for Rehearing En Banc in Hart v. EA
Should individuals hold veto power over depictions of reality? That's the question at the heart of Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc., and we here at the Fair Us…
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Lang v. Morris
Sarah Morris is a well-known multimedia artist and filmmaker. In 2007, she debuted her "Origami" series, 24 paintings in which she reworked, redesigne…
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What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry
"‘The biggest legal question is the fact that there are questions,’ says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford U…
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Human rights experts, activists push for ban on 'killer robots'
"M. Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor with expertise in robotics and data security, notes that there are upsides to robotic warfare, like…
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Roadmap for Driverless Cars: Five Highlights
"Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who studies driverless vehicles, said there’s still no consensus on how we’ll know these cars are s…
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The Pros and Cons of Killer Robots
"“Autonomous systems interacting with each other competitively can escalate quickly and unpredictably,“ says Dr. Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science at t…
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Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S.
"Even though technology companies like Google generally fear that innovation far outpaces regulation and risks being stifled by it, it has a different appr…
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How much do college students care about online privacy?
""Young people don't think about privacy of information to third parties," Hartzog said. "When they get older, it becomes more real. It…
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Taking a Flier on Big Data
"However, the level of precision that satisfies marketers is very different from the exactitude required by government agencies, says Jennifer Granick, dir…