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Flying Cars: Separating Hype From Real Potential
"“There’s been discussion of VTOL systems which in many ways are simply helicopters, and as Uber describes it in the initial deployments there will be a pi…
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With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3 million phone calls
"Albert Gidari, a former privacy lawyer who now serves as director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, criticized the…
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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…
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A ruling against Google in Canada could affect free speech around the world
"But Canada’s Supreme Court has flipped this script with its globally-binding ruling. Daphne Keller, a director of Stanford University’s Center for Interne…
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Facebook censorship bias detailed in internal documents
"Facebook’s “noncommittal” response to the groups’ request last year prompted them to ask to meet with company representatives, but the company did not res…
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3 Big Legal Department Takeaways From Google's Antitrust Penalty
"University of California, Hastings College of the Law professor Ben Depoorter said the European Commission’s massive penalty is a unique case for a narrow…
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A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math
"One of the conference organizers, Victoria Stodden of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said she recognizes the ways that biases of various…
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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
"“Sadly,” the rules are “incorporating this color-blindness idea which is not in the spirit of why we have equal protection,” said Danielle Citron, a law p…
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Arizona getting ahead of autonomous vehicle industry by stepping aside
"“Arizona is in a nice spot because of the combination of weather, generally good roads and appropriate density,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant la…
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In terror fight, tech companies caught between US and European ideals
"“It’s so easy to point to the need for internet companies to do more that that becomes a real rallying cry,” says Daphne Keller, the director of Intermedi…
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Security experts warn lawmakers of election hacking risks
"More than a hundred security researchers and computer science experts have warned in a letter to lawmakers that not enough is being done to ensure the int…
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How Uber's toxic culture forced Kalanick out
"All of these signals about Uber's culture matter. "Uber wants to court investors, employees, drivers, and riders," said Bryant Walker Smith,…