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Critics Question Uncle Sam's Ammo Buying Spree
""There is a subjective element of harm to being, living in a society where you feel like you're under surveillance," Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Why Driverless Cars Are 'Probably' Legal
"The paper is certain to get people talking and thinking about the matter in a new light. "Clearly understanding the current legal status of these veh…
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Swartz, Auernheimer, and beyond
In this video from Shmoocon 2013, Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann from EFF discuss several recent prosecutions brought under the Act, including cases aga…
Connected Vehicles
The 4th Positive Thinking webcast broadcasted originally on March 28, 2013. Questions covered in the webcast: What are the best practices in connected vehicles?…
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The Perfect Parking Garage: No Drivers Required
"“We don’t yet have self-driving cars in a realistic sense,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who specializes in the issues surr…
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Leaked Photos of Johansson Expose Cloud's Vulnerabilities to Social Engineering
"In many instances, this type of attack could still be executed, said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, who resear…
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The More Americans Know About Drones, the Less They Like Them
"In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke c…
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Supreme Court: Cops Need A Warrant To Use Drug Dogs Outside A Home
"There are very sophisticated chemical sensors or other sorts of sensor technology that permit you to do what the dog-sniffing cases pretty much allow, whi…
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Bloomberg to NYC: Domestic drones are inevitable
"Cameras mounted on buildings that have facial recognition capability, for example, needn't be lofted on a flying drone to be a privacy concern, Ryan C…
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A driverless car has gone 300,000 miles without an accident, says Jeb Bush
"Based on the number of car crashes in the United States and the miles traveled, he concluded that Google's cars would need "to drive themselves (…
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University of South Carolina professor hacks Courier-Journal online poll to 'get the discussion going'
"“I’m not saying it’s impossible to hack some online voting for a state election, but it’s much more difficult to do it there” than with the newspaper’s po…
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Comment: AP win in copyright ruling could put search startups at risk
“What I find troubling about it is that she keeps distinguishing Meltwater versus ‘legitimate’ online search tools, but it’s not really clear what that definiti…