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Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC

Date published:
April 15, 2014
Tech Crunch
"I would still be in prison if it weren’t for Tor, and he and Marcia Hofmann (who was co-counsel on my appeal) are the single two smartest lawyers you can go retain in private practice. Go give them all your money. The EFF and Professor Orin Kerr put in amazing work on my appeal brief, and Orin Kerr of course literally wrote the book on the subject, “Computer Crime Law”. Orin’s oral argument was so good that legal blogs keep praising its quality. The amicus briefs were also extremely compelling, my personal favorite being Jennifer Granick’s at Stanford." Read more » about Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC
Researchers find metadata reveals personal information

Date published:
April 14, 2014
The Stanford Daily
"“We were able to identify a number of patterns that were highly indicative of sensitive activities or traits,” Mayer said, offering an example of one participant that had contacted several local neurology groups, a specialty pharmacy, a rare-condition management service and a pharmaceutical hotline used for multiple sclerosis." Read more » about Researchers find metadata reveals personal information
The Morning Risk Report: FTC Wins Wyndham Skirmish, Battle Goes On

Date published:
April 9, 2014
The Wall Street Journal
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and business ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an advisor to the FTC told Risk & Compliance Journal, “This decision highlights the fact that information security and information risk are the key corporate governance issues of the next 10 years.”" Read more » about The Morning Risk Report: FTC Wins Wyndham Skirmish, Battle Goes On
Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities

Date published:
April 7, 2014
Threatpost
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-party cookies dropped by sites and advertisers can be used to tie a user to web traffic without having to worry about dynamic IP addresses,” said the paper, “Cookies that give you away: Evaluating the surveillance implications of web tacking,” written by Dillon Reisman, Steven Englehardt, Christian Eubank, Peter Zimmerman, and Arvind Narayanan." Read more » about Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data

Date published:
April 7, 2014
Fox Business
"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy contractor Edward Snowden, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who recently wrote a paper about the legal and social implications of robotics." Read more » about Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers

Date published:
April 7, 2014
Ars Technica
"At the conference, cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo discussed his forthcoming paper "Robotics and the New Cyberlaw." Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but Calo argues that the next wave of legal showdowns will relate to robotics, which have an altogether different set of essential qualities when compared with the Internet. Robotics blurs the line between people and instruments. More so than any other technology in history, robots feel to us like social actors. Read more » about As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers
AZ immigration attorney debunks parody border checkpoint video

Date published:
April 7, 2014
CBS 5 Arizona
"Immigration attorney Ray Ybarra Maldonado said law enforcement needs probable cause to detain or search you. Still, he said it's best to comply - but record the exchange.

"It starts at the checkpoints, and it's going to go to the interior, so unless people exercise their rights and stand up for their privacy today, the future is going to look pretty bleak," Ybarra Maldonado said." Read more » about AZ immigration attorney debunks parody border checkpoint video
Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits

Date published:
April 7, 2014
NBC News
"In the United States, someone injured by a small drone would have a strong case against the person remotely flying it, even if the injured party was simply startled by the drone and fell down, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, told NBC News.

It’s not that different from lawsuits involving any other product. The story might be different, however, if the drone was hacked. Read more » about Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits
Pornography, Children and Parents

Date published:
April 6, 2014
The New York Times
"To the Editor:

The article throws into stark relief the differences between the United States and Britain and why we should be grateful for the First Amendment. If the United States government were to coerce Internet service providers into installing filtering software by default, that would violate the Constitution." Read more » about Pornography, Children and Parents
WeRobot 2014 Conference Begins in Miami

Date published:
April 5, 2014
Guardian Liberty Voice
"The sociopolitical ramifications are astonishing when the future is examined in reference to emerging technology. For instance, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, will be introducing a paper entitled “Robots and the New Cyberlaw” in which he will detail distinctive ethical quandaries segregated from automation and will cover embodiment, or physical extension into the world as well as mobility, emergence and a machine’s capacity to learn, and the most evocative, social meaning in reference to artificial intelligence." Read more » about WeRobot 2014 Conference Begins in Miami
WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society

Date published:
April 4, 2014
The Washington Post
"In that regard, Ryan Calo (a law professor at University of Washington, a member of the WeRobot2014 organizing committee and a major intellectual in the law and technology field) has a new paper at this conference, “Robots and the New Cyberlaw.” It lays out better, I think, than any other currently what makes “robots” distinctive in terms of how law, regulation, and ethics need to frame of them. Read more » about WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society
WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami

Date published:
April 4, 2014
Lawfare Blog
"But one of the important conceptual questions is what is a robot in the social sense, and what makes robots in society different from automation, cyber, or other technologies. Ryan Calo (UWashington) takes this up in one of the most useful, thoughtful papers on what makes a robot and why care I’ve read in years. He offers features of advancing social robots that importantly distinguish them, and are likely to distinguish them from other technologies in law, morals, regulation, and policy." Read more » about WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami
With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?

Date published:
April 3, 2014
Ars Technica
"“This is the first case I’ve seen precisely along these lines,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law at the Cumberland School of Law at Sanford University in Alabama.

“So one thing that’s interesting to me is that there’s this challenge to this image, it strikes me that there is nothing truly exceptional about a video camera as a surveillance system. But that’s not the only thing that a red light camera does. There’s an algorithm that monitors when a car has violated the law.”" Read more » about With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?
What To Do If You Find A Lost Drone

Date published:
April 3, 2014
Forbes
"“I think if you find a drone, you set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s meant to be,” said legal drone expert Ryan Calo kiddingly, before more seriously suggesting calling the manufacturer of the drone with its serial number to report it “found” (much like finding a lost credit card)." Read more » about What To Do If You Find A Lost Drone
Ad tracking: Is anything being done?

Date published:
April 2, 2014
Computerworld
""We don't need to tell the Web server nearly so much as we do right now," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University grad student and former working group member. "We can limit it to the bare bones required for the Internet to do its thing."" Read more » about Ad tracking: Is anything being done?
Why it is not possible to regulate robots

Date published:
April 2, 2014
The Guardian
"Is there such a thing as a robot? An excellent paper by Ryan Calo proposes that there is such a thing as a robot, and that, moreover, many of the thorniest, most interesting legal problems on our horizon will involve them." Read more » about Why it is not possible to regulate robots
The Practical Path to Driverless Cars

Date published:
April 1, 2014
The Atlantic Cities
""Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars. "But it's data that shows you how specially trained, highly educated, early-adopter types mostly in their 20s and 30s can navigate the roads of San Francisco, where it doesn't snow or flood or all these things, in cars that are much nicer and newer than the average American's car."" Read more » about The Practical Path to Driverless Cars
Privacy Watch: Microsoft Backpedals On Email Snooping, Government Increases Google Data Requests

Date published:
March 31, 2014
Wall Street Cheat Sheet
"In a company blog posting, Google legal director Richard Salgado noted that “Government requests for user information in criminal cases have increased by about 120 percent since we first began publishing these numbers in 2009.” This is the ninth transparency report that Google has released in its effort to increase customer awareness about the privacy of their data." Read more » about Privacy Watch: Microsoft Backpedals On Email Snooping, Government Increases Google Data Requests
Supreme Court to rule on validity of software patents

Date published:
March 31, 2014
Reuters
"Daniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that restrictions on patent eligibility would lead to greater innovation because companies would be forced to come up with new products instead of relying on patent protections. "That's how people get cheaper, better products," he said. "You stay a step ahead."" Read more » about Supreme Court to rule on validity of software patents
The Humor Code

Date published:
March 31, 2014
Slate
"In the wake of the controversy, Oliar and Sprigman decided take a scholarly look at the matter. “It just seemed odd,” says Sprigman, a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. “We just wondered, ‘Is this thing normal, that comics confront each other? What else do comics do when they think a joke is stolen?’ ”" Read more » about The Humor Code

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Weev Talks About Life In Prison And His Plans To Open A Hedge Fund, TRO LLC

Researchers find metadata reveals personal information

The Morning Risk Report: FTC Wins Wyndham Skirmish, Battle Goes On

Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities

Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data

As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers

AZ immigration attorney debunks parody border checkpoint video

Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits

Pornography, Children and Parents

WeRobot 2014 Conference Begins in Miami

WeRobot2014 conference and the diffusion of robots into society

WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami

With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?

What To Do If You Find A Lost Drone

Ad tracking: Is anything being done?

Why it is not possible to regulate robots

The Practical Path to Driverless Cars

Privacy Watch: Microsoft Backpedals On Email Snooping, Government Increases Google Data Requests

Supreme Court to rule on validity of software patents

The Humor Code

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