Liability in the Cyborg Age

At RSA conference, cyborg anthropologists discuss legal quagmires that occur when we invite tech into our bodies and ask machines to start making decisions for us.

Sara Peters, Senior Editor

March 3, 2016

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SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference -- The future requires agile law. So said MJ Petroni and Jessica Long, both cyborg anthropologists from Causeit, Inc., in a session about Law and Ethics in the Cyborg Age at the RSA Conference today.

It might sound futuristic at first, but the conversation, moderated by IAPP research director Rita Heimes, hit on issues that were immediately pressing -- particularly for anyone in the healthcare industry or employing machine learning:

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Sara Peters

Sara Peters

Senior Editor

Sara Peters is Senior Editor at Dark Reading and formerly the editor-in-chief of Enterprise Efficiency. Prior that she was senior editor for the Computer Security Institute, writing and speaking about virtualization, identity management, cybersecurity law, and a myriad of other topics. She authored the 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey and founded the CSI Working Group on Web Security Research Law -- a collaborative project that investigated the dichotomy between laws regulating software vulnerability disclosure and those regulating Web vulnerability disclosure.


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