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DC Police: Body cam video of questionable search 'purged'
"“I think if somebody at the department knew about it, they should have at least flagged that footage,” said Harlan Yu runs a DC non-profit that studies bo…
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In a crash, should self-driving cars save passengers or pedestrians? 2 million people weigh in
"“There is this gray space of decisions that are not wrong and not right,” said Patrick Lin, a philosopher at the California Polytechnic State University w…
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Global preferences for who to save in self-driving car crashes revealed
"“What happens with autonomous vehicles may set the tone for other AI and robotics, since they’re the first to be integrated into society at scale,” Patric…
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
"In the 2013 report, “Enhanced Warfighters: Risk, Ethics, and Policy,” Cal Poly San Luis Obispo professor Patrick Lin and others raised concerns about the…
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Survey Polls the World: Should a Self-Driving Car Save Passengers, or Kids in the Road?
"“The core problem, I think, is going to occur many times a day in the real world, just not in a crazy crash dilemma,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy profe…
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Is technology re-engineering humanity?
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” This truism—by the media-scholar John Culkin about the work of Marshall McLuhan—is m…
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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, is sceptical that the Moral Machine survey will have any practical u…
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Google Turns Over Identities of Bloggers on Benfica
"Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said under current regulations Google had little option but…
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The Wildly Unregulated Practice of Undercover Cops Friending People on Facebook
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley, found that horrifying. “Our social media profiles contain sensitive, private in…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Leak charges against Treasury official show encrypted apps only as secure as you make them
"Daniel Nazer, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the duty of the USPTO director is to the public, not just patent owners,…
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As Ford makes driverless push in city, District seeks standards on safety, environment
"“D.C. currently has this authority. In the future, they might not,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Car…
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Artificial intelligence conference explores darkside of technology with ‘threat to democracy’ conference
"The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron…