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Tesla Driver Died Using Autopilot, With Hands Off Steering Wheel
"“This is another potential illustration of the mushy middle of automation,” Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies…
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Waymo starts to eclipse Uber in race to self-driving taxis
"“GM is very determined,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies autonomous vehicles. “It’s c…
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A legal question for the AI age: Is tricking a robot the same thing as hacking it?
"Their paper considers a broad view of the legal definition of hacking under the CFAA, applying it even to previous work done by one of the co-authors, Yos…
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Uber settles self-driving car crash case with victim’s family
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina school of law, who writes regularly on autonomous driving matters, said he wa…
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Uber Isolated by Partners and Competitors in Aftermath of Crash
"The self-driving vehicle community has long discussed the potential dangers of a "Hindenberg" for self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith, a…
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Worried about what Facebook knows about you? Check out Google
"What Curran found is the reality that Google's millions of users face every day, said Scott J. Shackelford, an associate business professor at Indiana…
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Appeals court revives Oracle's copyright claim against Google
"Annemarie Bridy, a professor of intellectual property at the University of Idaho College of Law, said in an interview the ruling could stifle software inn…
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Facebook under scrutiny as FTC confirms it is investigating privacy practices
""The FTC was never created as a pure data protection authority, but it's stepped in to fill the void," said Woodrow Hartzog, a law and compu…
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How to Win the Privacy War With Facebook
"This may be the first true large-scale reckoning for the information age, a 21st-century problem screaming for an immediate answer. Woodrow Hartzog, a pro…
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Why Now? Facebook’s “Perfect Storm” Reinvigorates Old Privacy Fears
"“There hasn’t been a real vivid example of how information is extracted on a massive scale and then weaponized against you,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a profe…
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Facebook's FTC probe rocked the stock. But will anything rein in Facebook?
""If I were Facebook, I would be quite nervous about popular sentiment," University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said. "Facebook s…
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Defending the Digital Frontier: Why We Need a Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
"As Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), tol…