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Targeting targeted surveillance - The UN special rapporteur's report on the private surveillance industry
December 2019
By: Amir Cahane On May 28, 2019, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression released an advance version of his upcoming...
Liability for Artificial-Intelligence-Based Robots
November 2019
By: Omri Rachum-Twaig In March 2016, Microsoft shut down its artificial-intelligence (AI)-based chatbot, Tay, which had been developed to autonomously interact with users via Twitter and...
רכבים חכמים ואחריות לנזקי סייבר
October 2019
נכתב על ידי: נח שלומוביץ'. בשאלת האחריות לנזקים הנגרמים כתוצאה משימוש ברכבים חכמים, מתייחדת שאלת הנזקים הנובעים מפעילות קיברנטית עוינת (נזקי סייבר) כיוצאת דופן במהותם של הנזקים, ובדרכי...
Clone of France Speaks Out on IHL and Cyber Operations: Part II
October 2019
By: Michael Schmitt. First Published at EJIL: Talk! In the first part of this post I discussed the position paper’s articulation of the views of France on the applicability of IHL to cyber...

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France Speaks Out on IHL and Cyber Operations: Part I
September 2019
By: Michael Schmitt. First Published at EJIL: Talk! The French Ministry of the Armies (formerly the Ministry of Defense) has recently released Droit International Appliqué aux Opérations dans...

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France’s Major Statement on International Law and Cyber: An Assessment
September 2019
By: Michael Schmitt. First Published at Just Security. Last week, the French Ministry of the Armies (formerly the Ministry of Defense) released the most significant statement to date by any...
Entering the Third Decade of Cyber Threats: Toward Greater Clarity in Cyberspace
September 2019
By: Dan Efrony. Posted Originally at Lawfare. Senior Airman Alexander Schrichte, 460th Space Communications Squadron client systems technician, performs routine technical checks on...
Putting Your Best Face Forward: Emerging Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues for Facial-Recognition Technology
August 2019
By: Daniel Ilan and Alexandra K. Theobald[1]. The average human can recognize approximately 5,000 faces;[2] one well-trained computer algorithm can potentially identify millions of people. ...
Insurability of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Robots – A Different Version of the Same Policy
August 2019
By: Anat Lior. The discussion about Artificial Intelligence and the insurance market is divided into two paths which operate within an influence loop. The first, more popular one, is that of...
Facebook is Like a Black Mirror
July 2019
By: Dana Yaffe and Racheli Edri. Facebook's decisions on content removal affect how we consume and share information, how we perceive our rights to freedom of expression, and the right to...