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Congress Is About to Expand Government Hacking Powers
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University who specializes in privacy law, says the history of computer crime law shows that vague language ca…
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Microsoft’s HoloLens headset will allow real tank operators to see the battlefield outside
"“[The technology] would give us the best of both worlds: It would take the human warfighter out of harm’s way, but it would also give robotic systems the…
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'A classic commons problem': Publishers are going notifications crazy
"Publishers have quickly realized the power of mobile notifications in drawing people back to content, so naturally they’re at risk of overdoing it. “This…
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Donald Trump’s surveillance state: All the tools to suppress dissent and kill free speech are already in place
"“Surveillance powers have a history of abuse in totalitarian societies,” Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Salon.…
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How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
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Area colleges advance their cyber programs
"“They are coming to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for promotion potential and they want to brush up on their knowledge, their professional…
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Boston becomes latest city for driverless car tests, in partnership with nuTonomy
"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver,&…
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Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
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Who is Responsible for Autonomous Weapons?
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City, has been working on addressing these fundamental question…
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Rise of the drones: from policing the streets to painting your house
"Such is the hype. But for every tech company with its head in the clouds, there are problems to bring them back down to earth. “There are big technical ch…
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Interconnectedness and Manufacturer Responsibility in Automated Vehicles
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering, and Affiliate Scho…
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It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
"Facebook's highly personalized algorithmic curation of its users' newsfeeds falls in a legal gray area with respect to CDA 230. As you know, CDA 2…