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Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy
Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy res…
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Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
I am excited to announce that Oxford University Press has published my book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. It has been almost a deca…
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Who Is To Blame When A Robotic Car Crashes?
The other leap that society has to make is from driver liability to manufacturer liability. When a company sells a car that truly drives itself, the responsibil…
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On Blind Drivers and Base Maps
Google has posted an inspiring video (with audio captions) of a legally blind individual riding in the front left seat of one of its self-driving cars as that c…
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No Way Out But One
In 1994 Holly Collins became an international fugitive, hunted by the FBI after she grabbed her three children and went on the run. Holly felt she had no choice…
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How Important Is Attribution In Copyright Issues?
Many, many people think that attribution is a key part of copyright law, but in the US it's really not a part of the law at all (with a few tiny, nearly mea…
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Big Brother Wants Your Facebook Password
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump quoted in this BusinessWeek article. If you want to become a state trooper in Virginia, you should probably delete a…
Fight for the Future: Libraries, Tech Policy, and the Fate of Human Knowledge
Keynote talk by Andrew McLaughlin (CIS Non-Residential Fellow) at the 2012 Library Technology Conference held at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (March 14, 201…
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Book Website Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whethe…
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Carnegie Mellon Study on Censorship and Deletion Practices in Chinese Social Media
An interesting study was released earlier this month by a group at Carnegie Mellon University titled “censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.…
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Print Edition of Encyclopedia Brittannica (EB) succumbs to Wikipedia
The news this week that that EB discontinues the print edition of the encyclopedia should not too much of a surprise. This should be seen in a larger context.…
Forno Doubts Cyber Attack Sparked Plunge in U.S. Stocks
Richard Forno, a cyber-security expert and principal consultant at KrVW Associates, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the security…