STANFORD, Calif., May 30, 2012— Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Jennifer Stisa Granick as Director of Civil Liberties at the Center for I…
Cal Poly May 23, 2012 It is not hard to imagine why robots raise privacy concerns. Practically by definition, robots are equipped with the ability to sense, pr…
In the United States over the next ten years, governments may spend some $1.5 trillion on their roadways, consumers may purchase vehicles worth nearly $3 trilli…
CIS Resident Fellow Bryant Walker Smith talks with Patrick Egan sUAS News about some recent and upcoming events as well as examine the potential ramifications f…
"Meanwhile, Google has funded a flurry of academic reports. Two published earlier this month — one by Hal Singer and Bob Litan, of Navigant Economics, and…
[CIS Non-Residential Fellow Andrew] McLaughlin recently sat down with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg to talk about how the culture on Tumblr flows from company founder…
Today, Facebook does its IPO - initial public offering. That means it begins offering shares of its stock for public trading on a stock exchange. Non-lawyers o…
“This is essentially like letting consumers open the hoods of their own cars,” said Marcia Hofmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wh…
"Requiring law enforcement agents to secure a warrant based upon probable cause before obtaining geolocational information would allow legitimate investiga…
Constitutional law expert (and CIS Affiliate Scholar) Marvin Ammori, one of the First Amendment scholars along with Larry Tribe who explained how SOPA would vio…
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CISPA") is the latest example of a depressingly common situation in Washington DC -- well-meaning…
Download audio from iTunes or download mp3 directly from CIS. A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The s…