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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…
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Google’s driverless cars have been involved in three car accidents
"“It’s a tenuous stretch of that provision to say that it also covers autonomous vehicle reports,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a lawyer with the Center for I…
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Tracing Some of Big Data’s Big Paradoxes
"Professor Richards called attention to what he calls the “Three Paradoxes of Big Data,” and began his presentation with a cartoon depicting a patient at a…
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What we know and what we don’t know about accidents involving self-driving cars
"“As automated systems get more complex, human understanding also gets more complex. For a vehicle to suddenly swerve to the right, a human would have to g…
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
"Interest in accidents will remain high, especially if the self-driving car is at fault, said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of Sou…
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Google Says Driverless Cars Involved in 11 ‘Minor’ Accidents in 6 Years
"Accident reports should be “part of broader communications strategies that both companies and governments should be developing and executing, long before…
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Jonathan Mayer reflects on court case ruling NSA program illegal
"In an interview with The Daily, Jonathan Mayer J.D. ’13, a Cybersecurity Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) an…
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Should Washington Allow Companies to Strike Back Against Hackers?
Patrick Lin, an associate philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, makes the moral case for hacking back. Heather Roff,…
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University of Washington Researchers Hack a Remotely Controlled Surgical Robot, Showing Us How Profoundly Vulnerable We Are
"This isn't the first time the University of Washington has conducted such an experiment. The computer science department—particularly the work of Tada…
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Yik Yak gets criticized amid murder case, but it doesn't have to change
"Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, told Mashable that Yik Yak critics do have a lot to be angry about. "What troubles me…