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Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now
Even our traditional definition of "privacy" may no longer apply in a world of omnipresent cameras and recorders, according to Woodrow Hartzog, assist…
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Governor Brown Paves the Road for Hands-Free Driving in California
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that would create safety standards for driverless cars - or “intelligent transportation” - in California. Th…
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Driverless Cars OK'd for California Roads
"The hard work is left to be done by the DMV," said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research. Still, he points…
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With a Push From Google, California Legalizes Driverless Cars
California drivers could soon see cars on the road driving themselves, courtesy of Google and the state government. On Tuesday at Google’s headquarters, the go…
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California Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
"The hard work is left to be done by the DMV," said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research. * Date Published…
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How Much Data Can Facebook Collect Before the FTC Gets Involved?
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix, which gives Facebook access to our offline shopping habits via our rewards cards, by…
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Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names
“Facebook’s insistence that it will ‘not be using this data for enforcement actions’ puts the company and users in a difficult position,” says law professor Woo…
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Digital data mining spurs efforts to curb use without permission
Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher and Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, says her work on users' understanding of di…
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Google’s restricting of anti-Muslim video shows role of Web firms as free-speech arbiters
“It’s a little bit of censorship and a little bit of diplomacy in a difficult situation,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford La…
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Ask the experts: Drones
Is there any indication of cost effectiveness and / or life preservation by the use of drone strikes? Ryan Calo: It turns out that the bigger military drones u…
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Cops Might Finally Need a Warrant to Read Your Gmail
"E-mail and its eventual successors are simply too important to be governed by inconsistent and confusing standards," wrote Woodrow Hartzog, a profess…
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Law Students Should Embrace Social Media, Study Suggests
Lawyers also report using social media for professional reasons in larger numbers, according to the survey. In 2012, 9 percent of lawyers blog professionally—co…