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Obama endorses net neutrality
""This statement, I think, gives the political cover for the FCC to actually do the right thing," said Marvin Ammori, an adviser to tech companie…
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Your Car May Be Programmed to Kill You — and 9 More Fun Facts About Self-Driving Vehicles
"“It’s one thing for a human to steer her car off a cliff and quite another thing for a machine to make that choice,” Lin says. “It’s also one thing for pe…
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Obama’s support for net neutrality could sway the FCC in December
"“Comcast is the Halliburton of this administration. It gives a lot of money,” says Ammori, highlighting just one member of the powerful lobby against net…
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Oops! Health Insurer Exposes Member Data
"“Hospitals have moved away from using ordinary email because there are all sorts of ways in which it can be compromised, intercepted in transit, or seen b…
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Protestors descend on the White House over the future of the Internet
""What I remember about life before the Internet," said Marvin Ammori as he stood near the White House on Thursday night, "was that it reall…
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FTC ends first case against a “patent troll” with a slap on the wrist
""While we are encouraged by the FTC’s work, this is one (long-awaited) action against a single troll," wrote Daniel Nazer at the Electronic Fron…
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FCC Likely to Delay Net-Neutrality Rules Until Next Year
"Net-neutrality supporters such as Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick say the new plan is unlikely to stand up to such a legal challenge."…
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Why the Constitution Can Protect Passwords But Not Fingerprint Scans
"“If you are being forced to divulge something that you know, that’s not okay,” said Marcia Hofmann, an attorney and special counsel to digital rights grou…
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The Legal Challenges of Robotics
"We are entering the age of robotics. Robots will soon be assisting us in our homes; stacking our warehouses; driving our cars; delivering our Amazon purch…
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Silicon Valley Privacy Push Sets Up Arms Race With World’s Spies
“What a number of big companies have started to do is anchor their brands on privacy,” said Brian Nussbaum, a University of Albany professor. “Law enforcement h…
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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of Web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information — understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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Navigating the roadblocks
"“For the trucking industry, the risk is magnified: we’re no longer talking about two-tonne vehicles of steel and glass, but up to 40-tonne vehicles that m…