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…
Krugman in the Times today: "...the nastiness of modern American politics isn’t the result of a random outbreak of bad manners. It’s a symptom of deeper fa…
This international conference will take place in Berlin, 21-22 February 2007. From the website: Digitisation of cultural assets is an increasingly important to…
First it was "Rip! Mix! and Burn!" Now it is simply just "Burn!" It is the second time in a few weeks when an artist is caught "red-ha…
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is interested in restarting talks with Congress about data retention legislation. (See Anne Broache, “Feds: Details of ISP Sno…
Conservative wordsmith Frank Luntz in the Huffington Post: "Democracy is at its best when its practioners use language to unite and explain rather than di…
This week, I was contacted by www.LightBlueLine.org and www.Canary-Project.org to help draw a line throughout New York City tracing the perimeter for a 40-foot…
The symposium drafts for "Search and Seizure in the Digital Age" are all up! Check them out at the symposium page at the Stanford Technology Law Revie…
It is always dangerous to blog when upset, but I will take the risk now so as to not subject my poor wife to further rants. I have just finished the process of…
What exactly is the scope of executive power? We heard about it during the warrentless wiretapping controversy and a myriad of other constitutional faux pax of…
Some sad news to report: the 9th Circuit has rejected constitutional challenges to the copyright laws in *Kahle v. Gonzales*. The opinion is here. Sad, yes, b…
Check out this week's Business Week cover story: Beyond the Green Corporation: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_05/b4019001.htm. Also check out I…
Bill Richardson throws his hat into the ring with some frank talk about excessive partisanship: "I am taking this step because we have to repair the damage…