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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…
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Calif. Green-Lights Self-Driving Cars, But Legal Kinks Linger
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was also at the ceremony, jokingly said "self-driving cars don't run red lights." That may be true, but Bryant…
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Technology soon to make drones deadlier, more autonomous
The advance drones could pose significant problems in the future. Stanford researchers Ryan Calo and Patrick Lin warn that there is a small chance that an advan…
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Deadlier drones are coming
"There's no plan for humans to be totally out of the loop," says Ryan Calo, a Stanford University researcher. "But there are pressures that c…
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Will driverless cars mean computer crashes?
It will take Google 300 million miles of driving without fatal incident - Bryant Walker Smith, of Stanford Law School, believes - to prove that autonomous cars…
The Next Big Battle in Internet Policy
For two years, network neutrality, the nation’s most high-profile and contentious Internet policy conflict has taken a backseat to other debates—privacy investi…
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On government access to communications data
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently decided in United States v. Skinner that police does not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile p…
Language, legality and liability
Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Gasser address the legal complexities that could threaten to bedevil the automated vehicle program. Read the full article in Thinki…
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Net Neutrality Issues and Barbara van Schewick’s “Internet Architecture and Innovation” Book
In her book, “Internet Architecture and Innovation,” Professor Barbara van Schewick states that the Internet’s remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation;…
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Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now
Even our traditional definition of "privacy" may no longer apply in a world of omnipresent cameras and recorders, according to Woodrow Hartzog, assist…
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Governor Brown Paves the Road for Hands-Free Driving in California
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that would create safety standards for driverless cars - or “intelligent transportation” - in California. Th…