Edward Snowden

Surveillance and the Limits of Law

Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to sunset. New legislation would kill it entirely. But how much do intelligence agencies follow the law anyway?

By Alex Marthews | March 4, 2020 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Privacy, Security | Amazon, AT&T, Black Lives Matter, Civil Liberties, Congress, Constitutional Law, Dissent, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Gang of Eight, ICE, Intelligence Agencies, Internet, Jewel v. NSA, Law Enforcement, Legal Precedent, Mass Surveillance, Michael Hayden, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, NSA, Orwell, Palantir, Patriot Act, Privacy, Restore the Fourth, Revolution, Russell Tice, Section 215, Sensors, Spying, Standing Rock, Supreme Court, surveillance, Surveillance Oversight Ordinances, Violence

Black Box

When Developers Can’t Explain Their AI, Laws No Longer Apply

The hows and whys of the decisions of machine-learning algorithms are increasingly opaque, even to their programmers. That makes laws and norms increasingly difficult to apply.

By Lynne Peskoe-Yang | May 23, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Health, Law, Prediction, Society | Accountability, AI, Algorithms, Asimov's Laws, Big Data, Black Boxes, Code, Corruption, Crime, Deep Learning, Efficiency, Fake News, Google, Harm, Health Care, Injustice, Isaac Asimov, Judgment, Law, Neural Networks, Palantir, Power, Predictive Policing, Programming, Racial Bias, Robots, Rules, Social Groups, Syntax, The Brain, Trust, Unintended Consequences

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