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Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
"For the first time, in March, an autonomous car drove itself from San Francisco to New York City. How is that even legal? That’s the kind of question Brya…
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Why Google’s Self-Driving Bubble Cars Might Catch On
"That still gives the design a lot of scope as an urban taxi, says Bryant Walker Smith, an expert on autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolin…
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NSA ruling reveals the harm of secrecy to the nation
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Legal, But Real Rules Would Be Nice
"“That may force very difficult questions about what the legal regulation of the driver should be,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the…
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Google’s Homemade Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads This Summer
"“The DMV and especially the state legislature, only listening to Google, wrote a law that was fine for Google but was really problematic for car manufactu…
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The State Department’s Weary Soldier in America’s Cyber War
"“The United States is in a very unique position. It’s definitely in a class of its own when it comes to cyber offensive operations,” said Henry Farrell, a…
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Who’s Responsible when a Driverless Car Crashes? Tesla’s Got an Idea
"“Tesla is venturing into the mushy middle of automation, where the human still performs part of the driving task, the computer performs other parts,” said…
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Chilling Scenarios That Keep Privacy and Security Experts Up at Night
"Whether it’s drones or commercial robots, the ability for hackers to gain access to these devices opens up a world of liability questions, with no answers…
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Verizon's AOL Deal Could Lead to New Privacy Problems
""With this acquisition, Verizon appears to be tearing down the wall between telecommunications and personalized advertising," said Jonathan Maye…
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Cops must now get a warrant to use stingrays in Washington state
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, also welcomed the news. "Stingrays are exactly the sort of invasive surv…
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Self-driving cars are getting into accidents in California
"It's a mistake to draw conclusions about self-driving vehicles from the recent crashes, said Bryant Walker Smith, who is both a law and engineering pr…
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Self-Driving Cars Can't Avoid Accidents on California Roads
""Assuming that you are not dead, you are in a much better positon than if you had been hit by an ordinary, human-driven vehicle," said Bryant Wa…