On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
One of my new projects is defending researchers and bloggers discussing how to put custom operating systems on TI calculators. The press release and explanatory…
An Australian court rules that a mortgage company can issue notice of a lien over Facebook. A court in the UK permits an injunction to be served via Twitter.…
Sources cited by The New York Times indicate the U.S. Justice Department has once again opened an antitrust investigation against IBM. Remember IBM? The new i…
On October 23, 2009, the UC Berkeley School of Law will host an all-day conference at the Bancroft Hotel to explore some of the most pressing legal challenges,…
In It's My Browser, and I'll Auto-Click if I Want To, Fred blogs about how EFF is representing SkipScreen, a Firefox browser add-on that helps users avo…
“Patriotism,” as Samuel Johnson famously said, “is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” In that sense, perhaps the USA PATRIOT Act is appropriately named after all…
In 1998, all hell broke loose as the U.S. government considered how to govern the network it had created. That fight has now ended, with a whimper: http://larr…
No one would seriously disagree with my observation that the patent system has become the single greatest obstacle to innovation faced by entrepreneurs and esta…
On Aug 31st, the Brazilian government launched its first official blog, "Blog do Planalto" (http://blog.planalto.gov.br/sobre-o-blog-do-planalto/). [&…
I am very excited about the slate of upcoming guests for Hearsay Culture this quarter! Ranging from copyright experts to technology philosophers, this quarter…
One of the more interesting results of the Framingham Heart Study: happiness and healthiness are contagious: "two years ago, a pair of social scientists n…
It just gets worse...less than a week after the FCC Chairman calls for simple rules to enforce Net Neutrality, all the thieves have fallen out. Everyone thinks…