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Driverless cars will lead to more sex on the road, study says
"Sex, technology, and privacy have always been closely intertwined, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Caro…
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Amazon's Accent Recognition Technology Could Tell the Government Where You're From
"If voice-based accent detection can determine a person’s ethnic background, it opens up a new category of information that is incredibly interesting to th…
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What is blockchain?
"To help cut through the noise, we talked with Scott Shackelford, associate professor and Cybersecurity Program Chair at Indiana University to get to the b…
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Google Home and Amazon Echo Can Store Your Voice Recordings. Here's When They Could Be Used Against You.
"“That’s pretty damning evidence right there,” said Richard Forno, an affiliate of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). But when i…
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People are going to sell sex in driverless cars, researchers say
"“There are dangers of collision, of getting thrown around,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who focuses on a…
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You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
"When Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, first became aware of the fake porn movies, she was initially struck by how viscer…
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Should the Government Require Companies to Meet Cybersecurity Standards for Critical Infrastructure?
Richard Forno, director of the graduate cybersecurity program and assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Co…
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Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies
"“Ultimately, regulators and courts will have to decide what is the right balance between individuals’ privacy concerns and businesses’ interest to pursue…
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Obscurity by Design
To make sense of this world, and to try to sift through the new emerging definitions of privacy, I turned to Woodrow Hartzog. In recent years, Hartzog has emerg…
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Uber report looks to rebuild goodwill with regulators
"“A person died because Uber was testing its vehicles under circumstances that appear to be irresponsible at best,” said Bryant Walker Smith, assistant pro…
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The US desperately needs tech-savvy lawmakers but the midterms are unlikely to deliver
"Some legislators are almost proud of their luddism, tech policy experts say. ”There are people on Capitol Hill who do not use email. How could you vote on…
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As Americans Vote, Facebook Struggles With Misinformation
"“I think they are really struggling and that’s not surprising, because it’s a very hard problem,” said Daphne Keller, who used to be on Google’s legal tea…