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Why Uber and Google Went to War Over Almost Nothing
"“There were lots of overlaps and informal sharing and all kinds of personalities early on,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at Stanford who spec…
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Philosophers are building ethical algorithms to help control self-driving cars
"Patrick Lin, philosophy professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is one of the few philosophers who’s examining the ethics of self-driving cars outside the…
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Bitcoin extortion plot targeted Churchill Downs, but prosecutors and company kept it quiet
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said a company that has suffered a breach has a duty to notif…
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Reddit bans ‘deepfakes,’ pornography using the faces of celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Gal Gadot
"“It falls through the cracks because it’s all very betwixt and between,” Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and cyberspace exp…
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The Argument Against a Mobile Device Backdoor for Government
"The 'responsible encryption' demanded by law enforcement and some politicians will not prevent criminals 'going dark'; will weaken cyber s…
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DHS’s Kaspersky Lab court filings reveal telling details
"IT CAN’T BE DONE — Senior Trump administration officials are wrong to suggest that encrypted platforms can be engineered to provide access for government…
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Does Ford's Self-Driving Police Car Patent Mean RoboCop Is Coming to a Highway Near You?
"“[Autonomous police cars] could also reduce opportunities for valuable educational or investigatory interactions between police and the public,” Smith say…
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Are robot cops the future of efficient, bias-free policing?
"“I'm skeptical that this idea satisfies the patentability requirements of novelty and nonobviousness,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law an…
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5 Takeaways From Tech Leaders' Content Moderation Conference
"“Trust and safety and content moderation is a field that, if you don’t have gender and ethnic and other [types of diversity], you can’t do it,” Feerst sai…
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Statehouses are the new arena in the battle for net neutrality
"Ryan Singel, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, believes that legislation may survive judicial scrutiny, and the poli…
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Memogate Shows U.S. Still Has No Idea What To Do with Russia's Meddling Online
"“Russian activity is the canary in the coal mine for a much bigger problem,” said Ben Scott, an adviser to the State Department under former Secretary of…
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People Can Put Your Face on Porn—and the Law Can't Help You
"And it's the very artifice involved in these videos that provides enormous legal cover for their creators. “It falls through the cracks because it’s a…