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The Future of Police Robots Began Last Year — Where Is It Now?
"Technology ethicist Patrick Lin, who has briefed the CIA on the risks of deploying weaponized robots, is also concerned that while lethal robots decrease…
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Self-Driving Cars Mean Cops Won't Have Excuses to Pull People Over
""Self-driving cars will alter this arrangement; there's no doubt. What's more interesting to me is the degree to which this will be lumpy or…
Supreme Court Defends Privacy in Cell Phone Location Data Collection
Consulting Director of Privacy at the Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society, Albert Gidari, comments on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on loc…
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Echoes of murder
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, also thinks that criminal implications of a device like Echo, given th…
Wrongful Arrest by Software
Managing information is central to the criminal justice system, and so it’s inevitable that mistakes happen. Names get confused, files lost. When these errors o…
The Intersection of Technology, Oversight, and Legitimacy in 21st Century Policing
After another year of protests and unrest across the country, criminal justice reform remains a contentious issue. Some cities have experienced an increase in h…
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Long-Distance Search Warrant Power Coming Dec. 1
"Google Law Enforcement and Information Security Director Richard Salgado said the Department of Justice has made assurances about what it would do concern…
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Lawmakers try to stop mass hacking of Americans' computers by feds
""The use of various forms of (hacking) . . . are more invasive than other searches because they often have unknown, widespread, and sometimes destruc…
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Apple v. FBI
Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize d…
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Researchers file for access to court orders that force companies to break their own encryption
"The researchers are members of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and part of the organization’s Crypto Policy Project, a group es…
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Cities Fight Domestic Dragnet, Demand Local Police Disclose Use of Spy Gear
""In Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, Oakland, South Carolina, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Baton Rouge and now Charlotte, amongst other cities,…
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Is Police Use of Force About to Get Worse—With Robots?
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington who’s a leading expert on the intersection of robots and law, said making law enforcement agencies…