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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
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How Cyber Technology Can Improve Society
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn's work is mentioned in the Activity Report of the Stanford Cyber Initiative titled, "How Cyber Technology Can Imp…
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How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless-car regulations, similarly welcomes the proposals from Mob…
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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
"As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including loca…
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Cal Poly hosts forum to address racism on campus amid another blackface incident
"Another panelist, philosophy professor Patrick Lin, said that expelling a student for non-criminal hate speech isn't really an option for a public uni…
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Did YouTube Phenomenon Poppy Steal Her Style From Another Star?
""You'll notice the complaint is very vague when it comes to what works actually infringe—there's just a lot of hand-waving about global simil…
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Uber sets safety review; media report says software cited in fatal crash
"Bryant Walker Smith, a self-driving car expert and law professor at the University of South Carolina, said in an email that the report by The Information…
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'It's time to do it differently': Cal Poly forum on racism calls for forward movement
"A question was asked about Kyler Watkins, the former fraternity member who was photographed in blackface, and the numerous calls for him to be expelled fr…
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Drowning in privacy-related email updates? Tips on what to look for
"“If you walked up to the average person on the street in the U.S. and ask them about GDPR, they’d probably say, ‘Is that a hockey team?’ ” said Albert Gid…
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Facebook Dating Looks a Whole Lot Like Hinge
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's intellectual property team, thinks Tinder's case faces many of the same pit…
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Judge to Consider This Week Whether to Unseal Vast Surveillance Records
"The Apple-FBI fight over encryption was a rare event. Most of the time, the public never has a clue when authorities come knocking and ask a company for “…
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Terrorists still have rail in their target sights
"“While al Qaeda and ISIS and their compatriots have staged high profile attacks and plots targeting aviation in the U.S, their high profile attacks targe…