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Volvo says driver-facing cameras are key to cutting crashes
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, says a car intervening and taking over control raises quest…
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Europe just hit Google with a 10-figure fine. Again.
The European Commission has just fined Google nearly $1.7 billion for abusing its dominance of search ads to make life difficult for its competitors. This is th…
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ACLU Wants Amazon To Stop 'Powering' Government Surveillance That Can Be Used Against Black Activists And Undocumented Immigrants
"“We already know facial recognition algorithms discriminate against black faces and are being used to violate the human rights of immigrants. We know putt…
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‘Mockingbird’ Spat Shows Benefits of Light Touch on Copyrights
"Some corporations still use a “scorched earth” approach when enforcing a copyright, especially in the entertainment industry, copyright attorney Andrew Br…
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
"Arvind Narayanan, now an associate professor at Princeton and part of that early DNT-formulating group, said via an email statement that the prospect of f…
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The troubling state of consumer privacy: We’ve entered a ‘trust apocalypse’ era — now what?
"The troubling state of consumer privacy was the subject of a panel discussion hosted by KUOW and GeekWire in Seattle on Thursday with Marketplace Tech hos…
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Are car insurance safe-driving discounts worth the cost of giving up your privacy?
"But privacy expert Jen King fears drivers may sacrifice more than they realize. “Where you go every day can tell people a lot about what you’re intereste…
The Christchurch shooting suspect comes from an extreme online culture
Details are still emerging about the attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which at least 49 people were killed at two mosques. However, it appears that one p…
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What's Next: Why Lawyers Need to Care About Deepfakes + AI and Zoning Law (It’s Going to Be a Thing)
"Welcome back to What’s Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. Today, we talk with Stanford’s Riana Pfefferkorn about deepfakes a…
‘Deepfakes’: A New Challenge for Trial Courts
The following was excerpted from an article that will appear in a future issue of NWLawyer. The author was also recently interviewed for the “What’s Next” newsl…
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
"“You’ve really got a rock-and-a-hard-place situation happening here,” said Woody Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern Universi…