Google says its futuristic self-driving cars needed some old-fashioned human...
Date published: January 12, 2016"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who closely follows self-driving car developments, said the rate of potential collisions was "not...
View ArticleGoogle reports self-driving car mistakes: 272 failures and 13 near misses
Date published: January 12, 2016"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina, says the DMV could reasonably ask for more information. “Google could...
View ArticleAlbert Gidari Appointed Director of Privacy at Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Albert Gidari as director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Gidari will lead the center’s work on consumer privacy and data...
View ArticleYou may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard
Date published: January 13, 2016"Some argue the agency has the legal authority to address the privacy issues raised by drones. But the agency “does not consider privacy to be their role or expertise,”...
View ArticleContent Is Content, No Matter How Small
Author(s): Jeffrey VaglePublication Date: January 13, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingRecently, Orin Kerr and I had a brief conversation on Twitter regarding the Fourth Amendment and the...
View ArticleThe Feds Will Have Rules for Self-Driving Cars in the Next 6 Months
Date published: January 14, 2016Read more » about The Feds Will Have Rules for Self-Driving Cars in the Next 6 MonthsWired"“This is an aggressive and ambitious embrace of automated driving,” says...
View ArticleDo Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate
Date published: January 14, 2016"Rather than feeling downtrodden and helpless, many consumers are “thrilled or even delirious” about new technology, said Omer Tene, VP of research and education at the...
View ArticleTrusting Big Data Research
Author(s): Neil RichardsWoodrow HartzogPublication Date: January 18, 2016Publication Type: Academic WritingAbstract: Read more » about Trusting Big Data Research
View ArticleInternational Justice Year-in-Review: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards...
Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: January 19, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingEditor’s Note: We asked editors Beth Van Schaack and Alex Whiting to do a roundup of the top international...
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...
View ArticleRubio 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 ArticleT-Mobile and the Fuss Over 'Free' Phone Streaming: What the Fight’s About
Date published: January 11, 2016"The episode has also renewed attention to whether Binge On is permissible under the FCC net neutrality rules. But so far, even after the EFF controversy, legal experts...
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