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Self-Driving Cars: Coming Soon to a Highway Near You
“We have moved to cars that have millions of lines of code and advanced systems that will think about where you want to go and will change the brakes and steeri…
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Revised Cybersecurity Act Needs Amendments for Privacy, Security
The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It's provisions expand the government's ability to conduct network surveil…
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New Cybersecurity Bill Available
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…
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How Copyright Law Censors Campaigns
Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Rom…
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Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
On a Friday night in early June, eight strangers came up with an idea to help poor Americans on government assistance gain access to healthier food. They design…
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land: An article in Wired. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:07/19/2012…
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Music artists claim website promoted infringement
By Ben Adlin "The First Amendment concerns jump right out at you," said Julie Ahrens, associate director of Stanford Law School's Fair Use Projec…
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Pay-TV industry not united on TV Everywhere
Want to watch an episode of TNT's"The Closer" online? You have to fill out a form on TNT's website, proving you have a cable or satellite tel…
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Google would pay record FTC fine under tentative Apple Safari settlement
Among the first to discover Google’s use of cookies on Apple’s browser was Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer, who is working toward law and co…
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Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
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Is US government reading email without a warrant? It doesn't want to talk about it
ACLU lawyer Catherine Crump, who ran the cellphone location data investigation, is at it again. This time, she has filed similar Freedom of Information Act requ…
Safety Is Big Concern for Autonomous Cars
Researchers are hard at work to make sure that autonomous cars will be safe. In doing so, a wealth of technology is making its way into today's vehicles. C…