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Surveillance cameras and the Boston Marathon bombing
""It's true that a great deal of our lives, particularly in public, are recorded today. But for the time being, it's fairly atomized," sa…
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Daniel Trottier - Hearsay Culture - Show #182 - 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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Pain Rays and Robot Swarms: The Radical New War Games the DOD Plays
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. In the year 2025, a rogue state--long suspected of developing biological weapons--now seems intent on using them against U.S. a…
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Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
Cross posted from the Robotics and the Law blog. “One of the most significant obstacles to the proliferation of autonomous cars is the fact that they are illeg…
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Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?
"But Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, questioned whether it was "appropriate to have a federal legisla…
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"Brain Spyware"
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, now there’s spyware for your brain. Or, there could be. Researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a…
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Amazing Spider-Man 2: Paparazzi Using Spy Drones on Set?
"“In 2015, when the FAA is set to begin to relax its prohibition on use and integrate civilian use of drones, then I would think the first folks in the doo…
Digital Age - Are We Prosecuting the Right Hackers?
Hacking generally has a pejorative meaning, namely, someone who accesses a computer by circumventing its security system. But, hacking may also refer to excelle…
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Fair Use Project, International Documentary Association, MPAA, and Film Independent Ask Fourth Circuit to Recognize Creators’ Interest in Repurposing Copyrighted Material for Historical Use
Frederick Bouchat has been serially litigating against the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens organization for more than a decade. Bouchat continues to press his clai…
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Rise of robots means rethinking our laws
"Similarly compelling questions came from Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow focused on law and policy related to driverless cars like the one being de…
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Why Hollywood Studios Care About the NFL's Baltimore Ravens Logo
The MPAA says that if an artist suing the league is victorious at an appeals court, it could raise problems for movies containing logos, signs, billboards and o…
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If you hate red-light cameras, you’ll really hate speeding ticket robots
"“If anyone thinks it is a simple thing to do, to take a simple law [and convert it to machine-readable code], it is significantly more complicated than on…