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FBI is dismantling its war crimes unit
"“These are difficult cases to prove because they need rock-solid investigations,” said Beth Van Schaack, a law professor at Stanford University who was de…
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Legal Scholars Dive into Implications of Deep Fakes
"“Imagine the night before an IPO, a deep fake video of the CEO comes out of the CEO soliciting a child prostitute or doing drugs,” University of Maryland…
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Call to ban killer robots in wars
"According to Peter Asaro, of the New School in New York, such a scenario raises issues of legal liability if the system makes an unlawful killing. "…
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Court Refuses to Shed Light on Government’s Attempt to Break Facebook Messenger Encryption
On February 11, a federal court in Fresno denied a motion to unseal that I had filed last November along with the ACLU, the ACLU of Northern California, and the…
Order Denying Motions to Unseal
Order denying motions by Riana Pfefferkorn and others to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice al…
Submission to PJCIS Regarding Assistance and Access Act
Submission to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding its review of the Assistance and Access Act that had…
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Agency Might Have Overstated Tesla Autopilot's Safety Impact
"“The lesson here is a need for candor,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a driverless-vehicle law expert at the University of South Carolina. “What does it mean…
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Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots
"None of the panelists said they were seeking to bar the use of robotics in all military applications. However, a sharp moral line should be drawn when it…
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The gloomy saga of Article 13 just got a whole lot worse
"“Article 13 creates more or less limitless liability with extraordinarily narrow exemptions,” says Annemarie Bridy, an academic intellectual property and…
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NHTSA's Autopilot Claim That Tesla Touted Disputed in New Study
"“What I really took away was there wasn’t the kind of data submitted to NHTSA that would give an agency the kind of confidence to make the statement it di…
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Trump’s Plan to Keep America First in AI
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, says it’s good to see the White House taking AI and its effects seriously. He also says it wil…
Democracy and inequality as a global foreign policy agenda
[The below text is a short memo I presented for a workshop on a left-liberal financial foreign policy for the US last week.] The US left is starting to come to…