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Coming Soon: The Web Toll
by Oliver Wolfson Oliver Wolfson For more on the proposed Web Toll, stay tuned to PopSci'spodcast. What if the Internet were like cable television, with Web sites grouped like channels into either...
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Yale Law Journal Ponders the Wisdom of IBM Robot Watson as a Judge
Watson, Behind the Curtain Dan Nosowitz The Yale Law Journal's Betsy Cooper wrote an essay examining our favorite Jeopardy! champion (and new medical diagnoser) robot Watson, but from a new angle:...
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Should Video Games Adhere to International Humanitarian Law?
MW3 Activision How many people have you killed in your valiant attempt to end World War III? Among all the countless hours of game play worldwide, billions and billions of virtual people have met...
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FYI: Are There Traffic Laws in Space Yet?
Space Traffic David Bases/Getty Images Only a few. Right now, the roughly 20,000 man-made objects orbiting the Earth are less regulated than the cars on a morning commute. Satellites are usually on a...
View ArticleThe Haunting Math Of America's War On Drugs [Infographic]
Video By Clarity WayIn 2010, the U.S. spent a whopping $500 per second fighting the War on Drugs, and most people sent to prison for drug-related offenses are there for possession, not selling. The...
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It's Now Legal For The Police To Collect DNA As Part Of Any Arrest
Cheek Swab for DNA Wikimedia Commons The US Supreme Court ruled today on the case of Maryland v. King, deciding with a 5-4 majority to uphold the Maryland state law that considers a DNA test--in this...
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Congress Was Not Really Briefed On PRISM
President Obama Not Briefing Rep. Susan Collins on PRISM Wikimedia Commons "Every member of Congress has been briefed on this program," said President Obama last week in his response to the revelation...
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How Low Is The Sky? And More Questions A Drone Legal Case Might Resolve
Ritewing Zephyr The FAA alleges that Pirker recklessly flew a drone or model airplane like this one over the University of Virginia campus. Ritewing RC Austrian Raphael "Trappy" Pirker has been flying...
View ArticleHow Many Gun Bills Pass After Mass Shootings?
After tragedies like the Navy Yard shooting Monday, people often want to do something or change something. It's a natural reaction to an extreme event. But how much really gets done after mass...
View ArticleHow Low Is The Sky? And More Questions A Drone Legal Case Might Resolve
Austrian Raphael "Trappy" Pirker has been flying drones and taking aerial photos as a hobby for about five years. But now he may have to pay $10,000 for an incident in…
View ArticleDo Their Teenaged Brains Make Adolescents More Likely To Commit Crimes?
Teenagers aren’t known for making extraordinarily good decisions. They’re stereotypically known to do somewhat idiotic things, like, for instance, drunkenly stealing a llama…
View ArticleWhat To Know About The Net Neutrality Ruling
The DC Circuit Court has issued a ruling in Verizon v. FCC that is likely the shape the very nature of the internet. At the heart of the case is how the companies that…
View ArticleCell Phone Location Data Is Private, Court Rules
Even disregarding the content of a call, cell phones reveal a wealth of information about the person making the call. Called "metadata," that bundle of other information can include the time the call...
View ArticleSupreme Court Ruling Protects Cell Phone Privacy
This morning the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a unanimous 9-0 decision on Riley v. California that police cannot, with few exceptions, search a cell phone…
View ArticleWhy The Supreme Court Thinks Streaming Is Cable TV
Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court in ABC v. Aereo, the government ruled that Aereo's streaming of cable TV over the web is illegal. In the process, the…
View ArticleAfter Supreme Court Defeat, Aereo Plans To Return As A Cable Company
Last month, online television company Aereo lost in a major case before the Supreme Court. The Court's 6-3 decision in ABC v. Aereo treated the company, and its unique…
View ArticleMan Shoots Down Drone, Lawyers Scratch Their Heads
Shooting down a small drone is hard. But determining whether people should be allowed to do so may prove more difficult still. A man in New Jersey fired a shotgun at his…
View ArticlePolice Can Require You To Unlock A Fingerprint-Secured Smartphone
Electronic fingerprint security has begun to emerge from sci-fi and into the everyday world, thanks to its incorporation into new smartphones by Apple and Samsung. The…
View ArticleMassachusetts Considers Legal Protection From Police Drones
A new bill moving through the Massachusetts legislature would limit the way law enforcement can use drones in the Commonwealth. As states struggle to regulate their own drones and those of private...
View ArticleWhen Virtual Crimes Get Prosecuted In Real Life
At what point do video game items stop being trinkets and start counting as property? With the launch of Diablo III, a wildly popular online role-playing game, players…
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