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Tech, auto companies join forces to thwart patent trolls
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who holds the delightfully titled Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents, had c…
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Self-Driving Cars Would Need a Driver in California
"“California is the place that everyone’s watching and learning what to do and what not to do,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the Univer…
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Data Privacy Day: Changes transform policy, perspective since last year
"Many of the most important developments have had a Eurocentric flavor to them. For instance, the European Court of Justice in October 2015 struck down the…
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Sorry, Google: California's self-driving car bill would prioritize unknown rival
"Some carmakers, including Tesla, are building vehicles with increasingly sophisticated driver assistance systems. The other approach, favoured by Google,…
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How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Be?: A Future Tense Event Recap.
"The central issue may come down to what Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis, called “the Stepford Wife problem,” which she described as the…
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Drone Lobbying Heats Up on Capitol Hill
"“Now that there is so much interest and money in drones, everyone wants to get their say” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University…
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Auto leaders lend advice on regulating future car tech
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina, went a bit further in depth with his advice. “The details matter…
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Oakland’s Privacy Commission Could Lead Nation on Surveillance Oversight
"“It’s really exciting,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, who has been following Oakland’s story. “It’s…
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FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a Univers…
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Can Silicon Valley help stem hate speech gone viral?
"“It’s a game of Whac-A-Mole,” said Beth Van Schaack, who served as senior adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice and is a vis…
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Human Driver, Taking Over From Computer, Crashes Autonomous Car
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who wrote a book-length paper on the legality of autonomous vehicles, calls this the “mush…
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The case for looking to the states, not the federal government, to protect your privacy
""The FTC just doesn't have time -- it's fabulous, but they have so many things on their plate," said Danielle Citron, a University of Ma…