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Will Brooklyn's New Autonomous Cars 'Turn Us Back To The 1950s'?
"According to Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina whose research focuses on autonomous vehicles, a wide gulf between s…
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Copyrighting the 'Building Blocks' of Music? Why the Katy Perry Case Alarms Producers
"Professor Ben Depoorter, a copyright law expert at UC Hastings, points to another flaw in the system: he says that courtroom procedures in these types of…
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Privacy missteps cast cloud over digital assistants
"Ryan Calo, faculty co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab, said that while the devices are not listening, there remain concerns over…
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Austin Airport Test Drives Autonomous Shuttle
"Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina who specializes in researching policy regarding the…
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Facebook transparency effort fails to stop shady political ads
""Fundamentally, we're in a very similar position in 2020 that we were in during 2016," said Marshall Erwin, a senior staff analyst at Mozill…
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Warrant Workshop
In 2019 CIS is hosting its first-ever Warrant Workshop, a judicial training program specially designed for magistrate judges confronting new surveillance techno…
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Smart Cities
"Smart Cities" is a euphemism for the creation of a digital infrastructure at all levels of government and in public spaces for the collection and pro…
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Open Courts
Transparency has always been essential to the rule of law and the legitimacy of our court system. But government secrecy has grown dramatically over the last fe…
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Capital One Took Nearly Two Weeks to Disclose Its Hack and Customers Still Don’t Know if They Were Affected
"“Whatever the law says, it’s not good corporate practice to leave consumers in the dark about their data being exfiltrated,” says Ryan Calo, a law profess…
Tech addiction & the dark art of persuasive design
‘Read Me’ Or Just Tap ‘I Agree’ There’s a huge group of people at work behind our screens. They’re called behaviour architects, persuasive designers or user-ex…
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Capital One Breach Is Case Study in Cyber Defenses, Vulnerabilities
"IU cybersecurity program chair Scott Shackelford says that's a stark contrast to the just-settled Equifax breach two years ago. which he calls "a…
The stubborn, misguided myth that Internet platforms must be ‘neutral’
Lately, politicians and news sources have been repeating a persistent myth about, of all things, technology law. The myth concerns a provision of the 1996 Commu…