"...Smith (who is a fellow at Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society) says that as a consequence, ever “since the 1930s, self-driving cars have bee…
Ever since the 1930s, self-driving cars have been just 20 years away. Many of those earlier visions, however, depended on changes to physical infrastructure tha…
Ryan Calo's Op-Ed mentioned in Wired's top privacy stories of 2012. * Date Published:12/27/2012 * Original Publication:Wired…
One of the top five most-read blogs on TAP in 2012, in Drone Crash, Professor Ryan Calo examines the crash of a drone into a Texas police vehicle and outlines t…
"“One major question remains though,” Smith said. “Will tomorrow’s cars and trucks have to adapt to today’s legal infrastructure, or will that infrastructu…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation hired Daniel Nazer as a staff attorney, the San Francisco-based digital rights advocacy group said in a statement. * Date P…
“This study is a good demonstration not only of how much information is collected, but also how much additional information can be extracted through data analys…
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
Newtown school shooting raises the question of whether someone can be prosecuted for posting false information online. "What the prosecutors would have to…
"These kinds of terms are pretty common these days, which is unfortunate, because some of them border on the ridiculous," says Woodrow Hartzog, an ass…
For instance: "Aspects of Autonomous Driving," the course offered at Stanford University Law School. "We can teach torts through 18th-century En…
In this post, I apply the “tool” metaphor to two common concerns with respect to online services and privacy: profanity in discussion fora and the publication…