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CISPA 2.0 Clears The House: Outcome Hazy
As expected, CISPA 2.0 passed the House of Representatives yesterday and the various privacy protections sought through amendments were dropped. Although much…
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Engineers, Manufacturers Consider Liability With Self-Driving Cars
"One interesting idea is to widen the liability gap to not just self-driving cars, but robots in general. Ryan Calo, in an essay titled “Open Robotics,” pr…
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Stanford’s privacy policy offers strict user protections
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, expressed general satisfaction with Stanford’s Intern…
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FBI's scrutiny of Boston video walks a privacy-security tightrope
"What that means, privacy experts say, is that authorities will once again be carefully weighing national security interests against civil liberty concerns…
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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…
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…