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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
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California Is Being Asked to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Doesn't Have To.
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
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Comment to the California State Bar on AI-related proposed ethics rule changes
I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
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Attorney advertising, ethical rules and the 1st amendment
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…
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US v. Heckenkamp
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy…
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Computer History Museum
CIS recently took a field trip to the Computer History Museum. My commentary and photos from the trip are here.…
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Yahoo's Disgrace
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…
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The Computer History Museum
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…
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State of Play Academy Spring Semester
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…
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User Discussions Land Google, Wikipedia and Openpolitics in Canadian Libel Suits
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…
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OECD user-created content report
I’ve just came across this report published recently by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about User-Created Content (UCC). The…
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How close is "very close"?
Earlier this week Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted saying that YouTube is “very close” to turning on a filtering system that should prevent copyright co…
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Optimal email animals
It's not unusual to find periodic columns decrying how technology is undermining the authenticity of human interactions, but it is relatively unusual to hea…
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Call for Papers: Internet Harassment
The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part is soliciting essays and commentaries on the role of law, policy, and extralegal tactics in regulating instances of cyber bully…
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A Bold And Fantastic Step By The BBC
We are at the point where technology makes it feasible to share publicly the vast swaths of our history, culture and heritage that reside on radio, television a…