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Like it? Social ads turn users into unwitting endorsers
"But many advertisers aren't completely sold on these endorsement ads — and with good reason, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford University&#…
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Drone Makers Gather to Defend Their Much-Maligned Machines
"The tech geeks, though, were almost outnumbered by those of another stripe: philosophers, lawyers, and critics who propose that drones are “a different on…
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Does Your Lyft Driver Have Car Insurance?
"“The two biggest questions that we face are: Can these peer-to-peer ride sharing companies get insurance? And can the individuals get insurance?” Walker s…
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Cal Poly Philosophy Professor Receives NSF Grant for Cyberwarfare Project
"Cal Poly Philosophy Professor Patrick Lin received a grant of nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Safeguarding Cyberspace with…
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Q&A: Privacy implications for aerial drones
"Al Jazeera: We're at a conference where the focus seems to be on the whiz-bangery of this technology. What's being lost in all this when it comes…
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Hackathons for the rest of us
"Margaret Hagan, a Pittsburgh resident and a Stanford law school student, says she had been to six public hackathons in the last year without hearing any d…
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The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
"As Stanford law fellow Bryant Walker Smith has argued, automated cars are probably legal in the United States, but only because of a legal principle that…
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The 12 Most Important Questions About Self-Driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the Center for Automotive Research. He points out that a…
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Technology: Eyes in the sky
"“Drones are a much more visceral reminder of the surveillance state than anything the NSA is doing,” says Ryan Calo, a privacy law expert at the Universit…
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Thanks to Bryant Walker Smith for Guest-Posting Last Week on Self-Driving Cars
"Thanks to Stanford CIS and CAR fellow Bryant Walker Smith for guest-posting here at Volokh Conspiracy last week on driverless car technologies." *…
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Monday morning, the day when women feel ugly
"But according to Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, "the digitization of trade substantially alters the ability of firms to…
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Is This the Grossest Advertising Strategy of All Time?
"Of course, any ad worth its salt is targeted (e.g. beauty products in women's magazines, car ads in the auto section), but Calo argues that the sort o…