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Should We Preemptively Ban Killer Robots Of The Future?
"Paradoxically, the human factor is also cited by those in favor of the development of lethal autonomous weapons. "Robots aren't scared," Ste…
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Apple 'privacy czars' grapple with internal conflicts over user data
"Key principles include keeping customer data on their devices - rather than in the cloud, on Apple servers - and isolating various types of data so they c…
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Apple-FBI fight: Judge OKs feds' request to cancel hearing over iPhone encryption
""It is an astonishing thing really," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford law school's Center for Internet and Society. "…
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The dispute over whether Apple must help the FBI hack into a dead San Bernardino attacker's iPhone is about to play out in a Southern California courtroom
""This might be more akin to requiring the person who makes the door to remove the hinges so you can knock the door down," said Riana Pfefferkorn…
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Apple showdown with FBI over terrorist’s iPhone reaches crucial stage
“It is up to Congress to legislate this issue,” added Albert Gidari, privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. “I expect we will see propo…
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If Apple cooperates with FBI, iPhone leaks grow far likelier
"Cases in which prosecutors have signaled interest in the Apple tool, or one like it, continue to pile up. In Manhattan, for instance, the district attorne…
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Autonomous cars aren't perfect, but how safe must they be?
""We should be concerned about automated vehicles," says Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies the techno…
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A Brief History of Robot Law
"The legal system has been wrestling with what robots can and can’t do for longer than you might think. A new paper by Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Un…
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The Next Great Threat From Hackers: Drones?
"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant profe…
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Why killer robots ‘must be stopped’
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 59 groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Committee. Spokesman Peter As…
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Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist
"Rather than contempt, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Apple could incur daily penalties if…
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Tech tools contested weapons in «digital jihad»
""This is one of the harder questions that we will ever have to deal with," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's…