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Uber’s Robo-Car Test in SF Is a Middle Finger to Regulators
"Uber’s got a good argument when it comes to the text of the law, if not the spirit. “Clearly California and Nevada [which has similar rules] wanted to bui…
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State regulators demand Uber halt self-driving car program, threaten legal action
"Uber’s argument takes the DMV’s rules literally, but goes against the spirit of the regulations, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the Universi…
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Self-driving Ubers arrive in San Francisco
"The law can be read that way, but doing so might cause tension between Uber and state regulators, according to Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the…
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Uber self-driving cars hit the streets of San Francisco
"Uber's stance seems likely to upset both state officials and competitors, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolin…
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1 in 25 Americans has faced or been threatened with ‘revenge porn’
"There are some legal options available, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron said. For instance, if a victim took a photo themselves, they…
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System Bits: Dec. 13
"Victoria Stodden, a University of Illinois professor of information science and the lead author of the report asserted, “We have a real issue in disclosur…
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Google self-driving car project steps out on its own as ‘Waymo’
"While the self-driving car project was in Alphabet’s “X” unit for “moonshots,” there was much speculation over what the business plan or “end game” was, s…
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Google reveals 8 secret letters from FBI
"“We minimized redactions to protect privacy interests, but the content of the NSLs remain as they were when served. We are also publishing the corresponde…
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Google just published eight National Security Letters
"“In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the National Sec…
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Two books about government surveillance win 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
The 2016 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize has been awarded to Laura K. Donohue for her book The Future of Foreign Intelligence: P…
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Top 10 developments of 2016 in autonomous vehicles
""Automated driving developments in 2016 became more concrete," said Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, "…
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Big data sellers fail to hide personal information, say funds
"But there is no overarching US privacy law to protect consumers, with standards set individually by different states, industries and even companies, accor…