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…
The ABA is having a conference on Computing and the Law June 25th and 26th. Here's the schedule (pdf). I'll be speaking on the 26th about the future o…
President Bush's Identity Theft Task Force released its final report (pdf) on Monday. Among other things, the report recommends: (1) a reduction in the use…
I've posted the latest few episodes of my podcast, Rules For The Revolution. Episodes 009 and 010 is an interview with Kurt Opsahl of EFF about Section 230…
Shankar Vedantam in the Post: "Opponents of the war believe passionately that President Bush, his neoconservative allies and a complicit Congress deliberat…
Matt Burrows, one of my co-fellows here at CIS, gave a good talk today about how we ended up where we are today in the world of digital media. These are my note…
Last week I moderated a panel at the Bar Association of San Francisco about the proposed California Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1-7.5 (governing attorney ad…
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy…
CIS recently took a field trip to the Computer History Museum. My commentary and photos from the trip are here.…
Sadly, Yahoo is no stranger to morally questionable business decisions relating to their dealings with the Chinese government. Now, in the wake of the most r…
I love museums as much as I love old library stacks. There, I said it. CIS had a tour of Mountain View, California's Computer History Museum on Friday. W…
I am delighted to announce the State of Play Academy (SOPA) Spring Semester will start Monday April 23 2007 and run thru June 8, 2007. SOPA is a virtual space…
According to a report in Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail: "Wayne Crookes, a former campaign manager of the Green Party of Canada, said he “suffered…