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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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Privacy And Free Speech (ACLU No. Cal. Primer)
The ACLU of Northern California has published a primer (PDF) on the advantages to businesses of good privacy and free speech practices. The primer assembles ma…
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CIS is on Twitter
CIS is now on Twitter! Follow our tweets @StanfordCIS!…
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“Everything. I record everything.”
This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s a…
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A Short Tour Of Robot Case Law
“Robots again.” That’s how federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski begins his dissent from the Ninth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Wendt v. Host International…
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The Powder & the Glory premieres on PBS
The Powder & the Glory, part of the Fair Use Project's Documentary Film Program, will have its broadcast premiere on PBS Monday March 23, 2009 at 10PM (…
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See Otter
As if we privacy advocates didn't have enough to worry about, this sea otter apparently got a hold of a video camera and was "filming" tourists. W…
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Legally Speaking: Next up, Lawrence Lessig
The next Legally Speaking - cosponsored by the California Lawyer and Hastings Law School - will feature Lawrence Lessig. It's scheduled for March 19. CLE cr…
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Building Bipartisan Habits
David Boren, senator from Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994, in the Post two days ago: "History demonstrates that bipartisanship is not an impractical, romantic n…
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Emerging Governmediality - 1.000 Points of Data
The New York Times runs an interesting Open-Ed piece by Kenneth M. Duberstein today: 1,000 Points of Data . While it remains to be seen if governmental data is…
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Facebook & The Charitable Deceptions Of Nostalgia
Facebook trends proceed at a spooky (in the quantum sense) pace. It took the New York Times all of a week to pick up on 25 Random Things. I’ve noticed a subtl…
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Symposium: Neuroscience And The Courts
The Stanford Technology Law Review’s symposium is scheduled for February 27th, 2009. According to its website, the symposium will “showcase vibrant legal schola…
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“I’m an eternal optimist. That doesn’t mean I’m a sap."
Herbert in the NYT this morning: "In a conversation with a small group of columnists aboard Air Force One on Friday, the president discussed the fight over…