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Here's How to Legalize Phone Unlocking
In the wake of a public petition to allow people to unlock their cellphones for use on the wireless network of their choice, both the White House and the Federa…
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Whose Fault Is a Driverless-Car Crash?
"“We don’t yet know how judges and juries will react,” says Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford Law School." * Date Published:03/14/2013 * Original Pub…
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Regulate the Robots
But not every kind of robotmaker should be responsible for its creations. Ryan Calo of University of Washington Law School argues that to foster start-up-style…
The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators
As the military’s armed surveillance drones have become the iconic weapon of the early twenty-first century, they have also introduced radical transformations i…
Dave Seubert - Hearsay Culture - Show #181 - 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 technol…
Prof. Anne Balsamo - Hearsay Culture - Show #180 - 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 technol…
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Doctrinal Precedence Among the Hatch-Waxman Act, the Patent Act, and the Sherman Act
Crossposted from PatentlyO.org On March 25, 2013, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a cas…
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From 'WarGames' to Aaron Swartz: How U.S. anti-hacking law went astray
""The extraordinary potential sentences are a result of political pressure by the Department of Justice, characteristic of their pressing for higher p…
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Will Congress Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg?
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, agrees that "Coming to a common understanding of ways to put…
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Google Hastens to Show Its Concern for Privacy
"“Google is just as concerned, if not more concerned, about public perception than it is about paying a few fines,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the…
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Boot up: brains v games, Windows 8 v the 90%, shrinking tablets grow, and more
"The Verge Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online…
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Rand Paul filibusters the domestic drone
"According to University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, drones may yield commercial and societal benefits and by targeting drone use rather than in…