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…
On August 19, the CRYPTO 2018 conference on cryptographic research hosted a one-day workshop in Santa Barbara called “Encryption and Surveillance.” The goal of…
If you use Google, have you ever read their privacy policy? If you haven’t, please keep reading. The policy delineates under what circumstances Google can perus…
Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users' minds Cyberattacks target Americans’ thinking. Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Balt…
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice’s “Cyber-Digital Task Force” released a report “assess[ing] the Department’s work in the cyber area.” The report,…
On June 20, SB 822 had its first committee hearing in the California Assembly. The bill, authored by Senator Scott Wiener, sought to bring back net neutrality t…
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In the upcoming version of the Apple iPhone iOS operating system, iOS 12, the phone’s Lightning cable port (used for charging and data transmission) will be dis…
Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force today, after two years of preparation. Anxiety and fallout from the law are running h…
On May 22, the Washington Post reported a jawdropping screw-up by the FBI that will, if there is any justice left in the world, have significant repercussions f…
-- Updated version of online WILMap provides improved functionality in tracking global online liability laws -- May 16, 2018 -- The Stanford Center for Interne…
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. For years, debates have raged about whether to ban or invite various technologies into our schools. Most prominent and still on…