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Uber’s self-driving plans hit bump in the road
“We are at the point where companies are really understanding there is a lot of money at stake,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law and engineering at…
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Axon Offers Free Body Cameras To Police For A Year, But Some Critics Find The Deal 'Troubling'
"Interview Highlights: Elizabeth Joh On her qualms about one company giving out these cameras "I wouldn't say I'm not a big fan, but I think…
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Robots to deliver Yelp Eat24 dinners in two SF neighborhoods
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at University of South Carolina and Stanford who studies autonomous vehicles, said he thinks ground robots could even…
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Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened.
Over the past two weeks, academic economists (and a couple of bystanders) have been arguing about why economics wasn’t able to guide policy better during the Gr…
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‘Motley Crew’ Is The Unsettling Future Of Drone Warfare
"Anti-autonomous weapons advocate groups are concerned about how these cooperative swarms will select targets, according to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the…
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Internet 'Satan' busted on Staten Island after decades of harassment, cyberstalking
"Cyberstalkers often target women, and aim “to hijack the victim's sense of safety," said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Ma…
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US government drops effort to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account
"“The anonymous account holder is safe, for now,” said Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “…
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Taser’s Latest Body Cams Push Is Unregulated, Unprecedented, and Disturbing
"“Axon’s offer creates a perverse incentive for departments to rush into deploying body worn cameras without taking the necessary time to engage with the c…
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The US Strike on Syria Underscores Trump’s Media-Fueled Worldview
"“It’s the worst thing you can imagine. It’s a horrible way to die,” says Beth Van Schaack, a human rights and war crimes specialist at Stanford’s Center f…
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Facebook’s move to counter revenge porn isn’t enough to protect women
"But while Facebook’s effort is admirable, at this point it’s also just stanching a bad wound. More than 65 per cent of children between the ages of 9 and…
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Facebook’s New Plan May Curb Revenge Porn, But Won’t Kill It
"To avoid those fiascos, the path forward requires both cooperation and codification. “With mushy categories like ‘extremism,’ you run the risk of censorin…
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Government seeks to unmask Trump dissident on Twitter, lawsuit reveals
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, called the government’s behavior “craven” and described…