Open Book Club: A Conversation With Neal Stephenson
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo interviews Neal Stephenson, author of Readme. Topics include privacy, virtual economics and security. Beth Cantrell, Greg Lastow…
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Fair Use Prospers on Campus
Last week's decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust -- upholding the Mass Digitization Project (MPD) -- was a big victory for fair use. The MDP is a project…
BIG DATA: Professor Omer Tene Explains the Privacy Risks Behind the Buzz
Professor Omer Tene, privacy expert in law and technology, sat down with TAP to discuss the risks big data poses to privacy and the challenges to existing priva…
Prof. Shubha Ghosh - Hearsay Culture - Show #174 - 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. Chris Sprigman - Hearsay Culture - Show #173 - 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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My Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality and Quality of Service
(Cross-posted from netarchitecture.org) Earlier this summer, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) held a public consultation o…
Comments on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in an Open Internet
I welcome the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in a…
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Licensing Autonomous Cars
This post is about licensing partly autonomous cars. Not legally speaking, autonomous cars are those which can drive themselves without any human input, and par…
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CIS Affiliates 2012-2014 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2012-2014 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following: Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriPeter AsaroRyan CaloDanielle Ci…
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Self-Driving Cars
A green light in California this week for self-driving cars. Not flooding the highways yet, no. But on their way. Cars where your hands are not on the wheel.…
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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
“It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can’t be bought or sold here,” said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the N…
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A Tool Without a Handle
This is a short essay to introduce three topics I’ll be exploring in various ways, including writing, talking, and reading: 1) How metaphor powerfully shapes t…