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 morning I came across Stacy Cowley's article GPL 3: An Open Source Earthquake?. As a member of OGC Consortium, the group responsible for developing ge…
At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live. The webpage…
There is one thing about the 9th Circuit’s decision in Kahle v. Gonzales that I could not find any discussion about – namely, the international copyright law im…
here. Though the Court acknowledged that there had been a change from an opt-in to an opt-out system of copyright, the court held that because Eldred had resol…
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org) There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-…
I was contacted by researchers from the International University Bremen in Germany about a podcast study they are conducting (yes, the survey is in English!) .…
I attended a really fun reception last night at the fancy Hotel Vitale in San Francisco hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. One of the co-hosts w…
At the end of our last panel, an older gentleman walked into the room, introduced himself as a Berkeley graduate, and proceeded to engage in an entirely off-top…
There's always another perspective we have to consider in the privacy debate. Matt Lamberti, Asst. U.S. Attorney, just noted that "when you talk about…
For all of the high-level discussion of fourth amendment doctrine today, a couple of more concrete themes have struck me as particularly salient today: First,…
Nicky Ozer's panel has been the most interactive panel so far. Nicky played a YouTube video of news coverage of the RFID reader that was hacked in the Calif…
It's break time now at CIS/STLR's Digital Privacy Symposium, so what better time for a blog post? The day has been going well so far -- we've had th…