How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms

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November 23, 2016

MIT Technology Review

"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton, has also analyzed word embedding and found gender, racial, and other prejudices. But Narayanan cautions against removing bias automatically, arguing that it could skew a computer’s representation of the real world and make it less adept at making predictions or analyzing data.

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 23, 2016 at 11:00AM

How the Tech Industry Can Lead in the Trump Era

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Sonia Katyal

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November 22, 2016

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Other Writing

This presidential election has kicked off tempestuous debates and much soul searching about the role of technology, especially social media, in the democratic process. These questions are vital, but now it is time to look forward. The core issue is the question of how the tech community should respond thoughtfully and critically to what for many (including us) was a surprising victory.

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This article by Sonia Katyal originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 22, 2016 at 11:00AM

Citizens need more say over police surveillance technology

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Catherine Crump

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November 21, 2016

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Palo Alto lawmakers have proposed legislation granting the community greater control over police surveillance — including the Police Department’s purchase and use of equipment such as drones, license plate readers and social media monitoring software. Palo Alto and 10 other cities around the country that have proposed similar laws are part of a movement to bring the community and elected representatives into decisions by local police to acquire such powerful and invasive surveillance technologies. We all should urge our own elected representatives to take similar steps.

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This article by Catherine Crump originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 21, 2016 at 11:00AM

Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?

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November 21, 2016

Knowledge@Wharton

"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal protection for the content that exists on their platforms, as long as they don’t veer off too much into editorial functions,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern University and affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 21, 2016 at 11:00AM

Boston becomes latest city for driverless car tests, in partnership with nuTonomy

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November 21, 2016

TechRepublic

"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver," so they are far from "driverless," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina, and an expert on the legal aspects of self-driving vehicles. And testing on public roads has been happening for years—Google has been doing it since 2009.

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 21, 2016 at 11:00AM

Trump’s election has undermined ‘political correctness.’ That might actually be a problem

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Henry Farrell

Publication Date: 

November 19, 2016

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Organizations tracking hate crimes have seen a spike in racist and anti-Semitic incidents over the last several days. In the words of Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center: “The white supremacists out there are celebrating his victory and many are feeling their oats.”

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This article by Henry Farrell originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 19, 2016 at 11:00AM

Rise of the drones: from policing the streets to painting your house

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November 19, 2016

The Guardian

"Such is the hype. But for every tech company with its head in the clouds, there are problems to bring them back down to earth. “There are big technical challenges,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. “There’s a bunch of PhD theses that need to be completed before you can build a drone to autonomously police an area, find intruders, and use facial recognition to know who is meant to be there. Plus, having these things stay aloft beyond a few minutes is non-trivial.”"

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 19, 2016 at 11:00AM

International Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice: Tensions and Synergies?

After 20 years of international criminal trials, it is time to reassess the relationship between such trials and transitional justice. Do such trials promote the aims of transitional justice or thwart them? Are there synergies between rule of law initiatives and accountability measures or are they operating at cross-purposes? Our speakers will address these fundamental questions in the context of the latest developments in the field, such as the trial of Hissene Habré.

October 27, 2016

New York City Bar Association

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 24, 2016 at 06:22AM

Global Right to Be Forgotten Delisting: Why CNIL is Wrong

The French DPA's claim that Google should de-list search results globally to comply with "Right to Be Forgotten" laws is inconsistent with the CJEU's ruling in the Google Spain case.

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This article by Daphne Keller originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 18, 2016 at 11:59AM

Points of Consensus on Rule 41

Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, offered a bill today that would delay implementation of proposed changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 for six months. Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and Mozilla have been studying issues related to government hacking including the Rule 41 changes.

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This article by Jennifer Granick originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 18, 2016 at 03:44AM

This election was not hacked – but it was attacked

Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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This article by Richard Forno originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 09, 2016 at 03:00PM

Cybersecurity experts: Risk of electronic voter fraud slim but real

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November 8, 2016

The Indiana Lawyer

"Similarly, Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and senior fellow at the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, has spent his sabbatical from IU this semester working as a cybersecurity research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and researching voter fraud methods in the U.S. and around the world.

Shackelford’s fellowship research has focused on five major ways to manipulate the outcome of an election electronically.

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 09, 2016 at 01:06AM

What the Second Circuit Just Got Wrong about the DMCA in EMI v. MP3Tunes

            With the Second Circuit’s recent decision in EMI v. MP3Tunes, the formerly small body of case law interpreting § 512(i) of the DMCA – the “repeat infringer” provision – continues to grow. Last year, for example, district courts held service providers ineligible for safe harbor for failing to comply with § 512(i) in two closely watched cases, BMG Rights Management v.

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This article by Annemarie Bridy originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 08, 2016 at 04:43AM

Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab

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Copyright enforcement is one of the main challenges for user-generated content Internet platforms. Considering the impossibility of monitoring all the content uploaded, intermediary liability rules provide a safe harbor to service providers that do not have actual knowledge about the infringing material and act expeditiously to remove the infringing content upon notice.

November 14, 2016

Stanford Law School

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on November 07, 2016 at 09:59PM

Government Hacking: Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Join Mozilla and Stanford CIS for the second installment in a series of conversations about government hacking. Information from our first event, discussing the upcoming changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, are available at that event’s page here.

November 16, 2016

Room 290 - Stanford Law School

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 31, 2016 at 11:46PM

Why Body Camera Programs Fail

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October 27, 2016

Fast Company

""One of the main selling points for body-worn cameras is their promise to bring transparency and accountability to police community interactions," says Harlan Yu, a founder of Upturn, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that provides analysis to policymakers, and the author of a recent national "scorecard" on body-worn camera policies. But the cameras, he says, "don't automatically provide accountability."

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 27, 2016 at 10:00AM

Why Verizon's Due Diligence May Not Have Caught Yahoo's Massive Security Breach

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October 26, 2016

Fast Company

""It could have been beyond the scope, but I’m sure the investors are going to be asking if it was beyond the scope, then why was it," says Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business who’s written about cybersecurity due diligence."

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 26, 2016 at 10:00AM

AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring

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Malkia A. Cyril

Publication Date: 

October 26, 2016

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Other Writing

During an address to AT&T employees last month in Dallas, CEO Randall Stephenson called on those struggling with the words “Black Lives Matter” to not rebut with “all lives matter” and ignore the real need for change. They were powerful words from one of the nation’s biggest telecommunications providers. But, in the end, they were just words. Words that didn’t answer the critical, lingering question: Why now?

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This article by Malkia A. Cyril originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 26, 2016 at 10:00AM

The Ground War Will Be Autonomous

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October 26, 2016

Inverse

"The kind of remotely operated weapons Sadowski is talking about likely wouldn’t fall under the proposed autonomous weapons ban, says Peter Asaro, Co-Founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and supporter of a “killer robot” ban.

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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 26, 2016 at 10:00AM

Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn’t Differ for Tech Companies

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Bryant Walker Smith

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October 24, 2016

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Other Writing

At the outset, it's not clear to me what Silicon Valley is and isn't — or why that matters. Companies like Google are often contrasted with companies like General Motors, and yet, according to an automotive industry group, automakers spend over $100 billion every year on research and development worldwide. R&D is a form of tech innovation. Energy companies, pharmaceutical firms and financial institutions are also technological powerhouses. Innovation is central to telecommunications, defense and health care.

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This article by Bryant Walker Smith originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 24, 2016 at 10:00AM