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…
This is how I want my President to speak to the world. I strongly urge you to read the whole thing. "We meet at a time of tension between the United Stat…
Teneille Brown, Joshua Auriemma, and I helped Patient Privacy Rights draft the public comments it submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. Thanks t…
A friend in the eBay Israel office shared this with me... pretty interesting... "Debates are communicative exchanges that evolve in time. Their minimal un…
Now Kristof is getting into the evolutionary psychology line of thinking: "How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his perm…
I must say, the end of the Bush era seems to have buried the part of David Brooks that got me so wound up, leaving only the part I treasure. Now all that remai…
Now this is going to be cool: http://wave.google.com/ I urge you to watch the youtube video of the demo. Who knows if it's going to get critical mass --…
In May, Free Press released a report titled Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. The 48-page document is the most intelligent and comprehens…
Last Summer, the Center for Social Media released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, a first of its kind document—coordinated by American…
Flickr has been offering users the ability to search by Creative Commons license since mid-2006, and I've been waiting for Yahoo to implement such a feature…
The web was abuzz with Wolfram Alpha the past week and I too took a test drive with varying results. Among other things I simply entered the terms 'man'…
The White House announced its Open Government initiative today... check it out at http://www.whitehouse.gov/open. My good friend Beth Noveck's fingerprints…
This post is co-authored by Ryan Calo and CIS summer intern Joshua Auriemma. On Saturday Night Live’s classic segment “Really?!? With Seth & Amy,” two incr…