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California’s Finally Ready for Truly Driverless Cars
"One thing missing from the regs: any driving test to pass before letting the robot fly solo. Instead, companies will “self-certify” their vehicles. “That’…
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Assange: WikiLeaks will help tech firms defend against CIA hacking
"Although it would be “unheard of” for the federal government to prosecute a company for using leaked classified information to improve its products, there…
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California Gives the Green Light to Self-Driving Cars
"California is not the first jurisdiction to pass rules governing the deployment of fully automated vehicles. Michigan has a law contemplating driverless f…
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Robot cars — with no human driver — could hit California roads next year
"“California has taken a big step,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in autonomous vehicle law at the University of South Carolina. “As I understand the…
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With the latest WikiLeaks revelations about the CIA – is privacy really dead?
"“I don’t think there’s been absolute privacy in the history of mankind,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and S…
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Nameless and shameless
"As Shaheen Shariff, professor of integrated studies at McGill University explains, the protection of a pseudonym allows people to easily throw out insults…
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The Latest Victim of Uber's Disruption May Be Itself
"In Rosenblat and Calo’s view, government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission need to more actively step up and investigate possible abuses by peer-…
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Tech workers electing to use skills in politics
"Around the country — and especially in the Bay Area, where 75 percent of voters backed Democrat Hillary Clinton — joining the political fray has become a…
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WikiLeaks Will Help Tech Companies Fix Security Flaws, Assange Says
"While WikiLeaks has often been criticized for releasing sensitive data without regard for the consequences, Mr. Assange is acting responsibly this time, s…
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Gay Iranian refugee in U.S. worries about friends left behind
"“The administration has the right to cap and put limits on the number of refugees it’s going to accept — there’s no legal obligation to take a particular…
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The Way We Talk About Autonomy Is a Lie, and That’s Dangerous
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the University of South Carolina School of Law and an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Soci…
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Will Science Fiction Become the New Reality?
"Indeed, panelist Peter Asaro—philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School—said that machines aren't legal or moral agents. So if hu…