Microsoft just won a big privacy fight with the government. Here’s what that means.
Over the past couple of years, the U.S. government and Microsoft have been fighting a legal battle over whether Microsoft has to provide customers’ email that i…
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An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy for President
We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that American innovation…
Focus on Human Decisions, Not Technological Ethics of Police Robots
The Alberta wildfires. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The meltdown of Fukushima. Robots have been used to address each of these emergencies, and many more. S…
Police Robots Could Reduce the Use of Deadly Force
The use of robots inevitably changes the equation for how police apply "use of force," a term that is broadly defined by the International Association…
Police Robots Need to Be Regulated to Avoid Potential Risks
The robot used by the Dallas police department to kill Micah Johnson — the sniper who fired into a peaceful protest and killed five police officers, injuring ot…
Four Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe: An Open Letter
Cross-posted from the World Wide Web Foundation. The post below is an open letter to European citizens, lawmakers and regulators, from our founder and Web inve…
Judge Garland & The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act
As promised, this post surveys several Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA) opinions penned by Judge Garland while on the D.C. Circuit. Judge Garland has had o…
Syria, J’Accuse! Syrian State Responsibility for War Crimes
So far, achieving any measure of accountability for the grave international crimes being committed in Syria has been elusive, as I’ve outlined before. A draft S…
(Un)Fairness of Risk Scores in Criminal Sentencing
In a ruling today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sanctioned the use of COMPAS risk assessment scores about a defendant’s potential recidivism in sentencing, so lo…
Can’t register for Pokémon Go? Game theory helps explain why.
The new Niantic game Pokémon Go has perhaps been too successful for its own good. The Internet is filledwith articles, posts and comments from people complainin…
https://www.justsecurity.org/31820/garland-international-law/
I recently had occasion to review the international law jurisprudence of Judge Merrick Garland as part of an evaluation prepared by the American Bar Association…
Should the Police Have Robot Suicide-Bombers?
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Last week, the Dalla…