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Trolling victim takes neo-Nazi website to court
"US laws around hate on the internet date back to the earliest chat rooms and bulletin boards. By the '90s, they'd begun to address electronic hara…
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51 Times That the Aggregator Distractify Says Its Copyright Was Violated
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said facts and story concepts generally can’t be copyrighted. Short phrases like he…
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Sex robots on way for elderly and lonely...but pleasure-bots have a dark side, warn experts
"Philosophy Professor and robot ethicist Patrick Lin of California Polytechnic said: “Treating paedophiles with robot sex-children is both a dubious and re…
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Chicago Schools to Students: Submit to Our Choices for Your Futures or No Diploma
Hey, Chicago parents: Are you ready for a bunch of government officials to decide whether your teen has appropriate post-high-school plans?If you're not, to…
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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…