Podcast #22: Ryan Calo on Technology and the Law

Legal theorist Ryan Calo explores how the law is (or isn’t) evolving in response to technological quandaries like robotics and digital surveillance.

By Mo Lotman | November 13, 2018 | Culture, Government, Human Rights, Media, Podcasts, Policing, Privacy, Society | Advisory Boards, AI, Autonomy, Carpenter v. US, City of LA v. Patel, Crime, Emergence, Intent, Mens Rea, Negligence, NSA, Privacy, Recklessness, Responsibility, Robotics, Robotics Commission, Section 702, Senate, Stanford, Strict Liability, surveillance, University of Washington, US v. Jones, White House, Yale

Help End Section 702 Surveillance

Section 702 of 2008’s FISA Amendment Act, the basis of an enormous surveillance program, is about to lapse. A new bill, the USA Rights Act, would fix it.

By Mo Lotman | October 25, 2017 | Defense, Ethics, Government, Human Rights, Law, Policing, Privacy | ACLU, America, Back-Door Searches, Bipartisanship, CIA, Democracy, EFF, FAA, FBI, FISA, FISA Amendments, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Intelligence Agencies, Liberty Through Strength Act, NSA, Patriot Act, Privacy, Rand Paul, Restore the Fourth, Reverse Targeting, Ron Wyden, Rule of Law, Searches, Section 215, Section 702, surveillance, Ted Poe, Tom Cotton, US Constitution, USA Rights Act, Zoe Lofgren

Will Surveillance Finally Sunset?

Controversial surveillance authorizations are scheduled to sunset this year. Now is the time to press for the end of these Constitution-defying practices.

By Warren Christopher Freiberg | July 26, 2017 | Defense, Government, Human Rights, Law, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Arab American Institute, Bob Goodlatte, Dan Coats, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Freedom of the Press Foundation, George W. Bush, House Freedom Caucus, Human Rights Watch, Internet, John Conyers, Mark Meadows, Mass Surveillance, Maya Berry, PRISM, Privacy, Restore the Fourth, Section 702, surveillance, Tom Cotton

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