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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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A Key Keywording Decision
Keywording (aka keying) is the practice of registering with search engine words, terms, acronyms etc. that are protected by trademarks owned by someone else. Th…
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Database Of Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Please visit the Center for Internet and Society's new wiki (cyberlaw.stanford.edu/wiki) and contribute to our privacy enhancing technology (PET) database.…
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The Mediator-in-Chief
Well, I suppose no long time reader of this blog would be surprised to hear I'm in a good mood today. This has been a dark period in our nation's histo…
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Empiricism vs. human nature
Ah the David Brooks I've come to know and love showed up today: "...the current financial crisis — how so many people could be so stupid, incompetent a…
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Ghostery.com: Not Just A Cool Icon
David Cancel just created a wonderful privacy enhancing technology for Firefox---up there with Ad Blocker Plus in my view. In a simple and straightforward way,…
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Shmeat
I just created a group on facebook to discuss this topic further... I'd love to see a discussion arise over there. I must say, I don't like the term &q…
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Advancing meat subsitutes
In response to my prior post on the topic of meat substitutes, I received an email from Jason Matheny, who works with New Harvest, a great non-profit organizati…
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FCC Hearing Compilation
Stanford Reference Librarian and Archivist Sarah Wilson created this wonderful compilation of testimonies, statements, press releases, news coverage and other m…
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Devices As Themselves Social
Social networks have gotten a lot of play in recent years. What about social devices? I've been thinking about whether/how the nature of computer interfac…
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Teaching Reverence for Life
Thanks to my friend Tom Fee for sharing this piece by Albert Schweitzer... "No human being is ever totally and permanently a stranger to another human bein…
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Happy Public Domain Day - January 1, 2009 - new additions to unpublished public domain in the U.S.
January 1 is Public Domain Day--the day when new works around the world come into the public domain. Some countries, the term of copyright is life of the autho…
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Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari, Oslo, 10 December 2008
On this last day of a very difficult year for the world, I'd like to end the year with a speech from this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: "…