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…
Threats remain to US voting system – and voters' perceptions of reality As Americans go to the polls, the voting process and the information environment ar…
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has released its fourth annual report on the impact of device encryption (i.e., smartphones and tablets) on the office’…
The European Parliament recently took the final vote on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The text, which can be considered final, now await…
Over the course of the last decade, in response to significant pressure from the US government and other governments, service providers have assumed private obl…
On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information ab…
In the lead-up to the FCC's historic vote in December 2017 to repeal all net neutrality protections, 22 million comments were filed to the agency. But unfo…
October is 'National Cybersecurity Awareness Month' in the United States. As many of you know, this already rather interdisciplinary field of 'cybe…
Today I'm submitting a second round of comments to the Australian government regarding its proposed Assistance and Access Bill. The proposed legislation wo…
On Sunday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822, the first state-level law that comprehensively restores all of the net neutrality…
On Sunday September 30, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822, the first state-level law that comprehensively restores all of the n…
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of the freedom of expression, freedom of information, and media regulation international expert Joan Barata…
Cross-posted from Scientific American. I was recently called a Luddite. It was meant to be an insult, to suggest that I was an anti-technology zealot. I resist…