Rubio and Cruz spar over domestic surveillance program
Date published: December 16, 2015"To remedy this, the new law is "technology neutral," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University...
View ArticleGoogle’s Plan for Self-Driving Cars Means It Will Have to Compete With Uber
Date published: December 16, 2015"“Eventually, Google’s driverless vehicles will compete with not just Uber and taxis, but also FedEx, Amazon, Seamless, transit operators and the very notion of...
View ArticleEye on Safety, California Sets Rules for Self-Driving Cars
Date published: December 16, 2015""This points to a very long slog ahead for not just Google, but really other automakers as well," said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South...
View ArticleHate Crimes in Cyberspace: Charting a New Course for the 21st Century
University of Maryland Professor of Law and author of the book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” Danielle Citron provides a systematic account of online harassment, and the personal, economic, professional...
View ArticleThe Final Draft of Europe's "Right to Be Forgotten" Law
The probably-really-almost-totally final 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is here! Lawyers around the world have been hunkered down, analyzing its 200-plus pages. In the “Right to Be...
View ArticleWhatsApp in Brazil?
A few days ago, a Brazilian judge ordered telecoms to block access to WhatsApp on the Brazilian territory for lack of cooperation in a criminal investigation. A few hours later, a superior tribunal...
View ArticleState-Level Cyber Security Efforts: Michigan and “Cyber Disruption Response”
In November, the Pell Center at Salve Regina University released a report - State of the States on Cyber Security - on cyber security efforts in eight state governments across the US. (The chart on...
View ArticleVolvo's insane self-driving car has a dashboard that turns into a massive...
Date published: January 4, 2016""This is further evidence that the automakers are shifting aggressively from a traditional model of marketing products to a new model of marketing services," Bryant...
View ArticleHow Human Do We Want Our Robots to Be?
Robots are starting to look suspiciously familiar. Increasingly sophisticated robots designed to resemble us are striking up more and more symbiotic relationships with humans, at home as our companions...
View ArticleUsers are the real winners of the Google books case
Date published: October 19, 2015"“This is a big shift in thinking,” said Annemarie Bridy, a scholar of technology law and intellectual property at the University of Idaho College of Law. “It’s a...
View ArticleWhat is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that...
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 19, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingShowtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations...
View ArticleCampaign to Stop Killer Robots warns UN of threat 'a few years away'
Date published: October 20, 2015"Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York, noted that without a human in control, machines fail to take in the unpredictable variables and context of war:...
View ArticleUpdate on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Author(s): Jennifer GranickRiana PfefferkornPublication Date: October 20, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingLast week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that...
View ArticleWhy Making People Register Their Drones May Just Create More Problems
Date published: October 20, 2015"There are two possible lines for making the determination, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, suggested to The Huffington Post: weight and...
View ArticleSurvey Shows Amount of Trust in Autonomous Vehicles
Date published: October 20, 2015""The key question here is whether the relevant technologies have reached a demonstrated level of socially acceptable risk," said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant...
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Valarie Kaur at the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions
Valarie Kaur, founder of Groundswell, gave this moving address on Revolutionary Love at the world's largest interfaith gathering – the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions. Don't miss the message...
View ArticleCollege textbooks are a racket
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 21, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingThe Orange County Register reports that Alain Bourget, a math professor at Cal State Fullerton, is in danger of...
View ArticleFaced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
Date published: October 21, 2015"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encrypted iOS 8...
View ArticleThe good, bad, and ugly of binary thinking . . .
Sometimes the best choice when you come to a fork in the road is to retreat, or even merge the two forks by taking one then going off road to the other! And yet binary thinking will force us to choose...
View ArticleHere’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: December 16, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingTwo months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor...
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