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…
I'm trying to avoid blogging over the NSA's acquisition of telephone records from a number of major telephone companies. Given my ability to avoid virt…
Lots of people are talking about John McCain's speech at Liberty University and how it signals that he's climbed off of the "Straight Talk Express&…
My KZSU-FM show, "Hearsay Culture," is now available on iTunes. Go here to find it (note, of course, that you need iTunes installed on your computer)…
At long last, the article on which I have been toiling for many months is in public-consumption format. I am very pleased to report that my article, "Secr…
For those concerned with privacy, the “war on terror” (setting aside the obvious complaint that a country cannot be at war with an expression) raises a very dif…
The problems concerning electronic voting machines and copyright law which have been discussed in the U.S. for some time, in particular concerning Diebold (see…
In Britain, an interesting initiative is afoot that, if successful, would allow music consumers in the UK greater freedom. The BPI, the body that represents th…
As I was driving from my office to my daughter's Little League game this evening, I heard a radio talk show host who really got on my nerves. His inane po…
I have very little involvement in electoral politics, except that I vote (in DC, so I don't know how much difference my vote makes). Recently, though, I h…
Creative Commons and my firm have issued this press release about the Podcasting Legal Guide. For those who have downloaded the guide before this week, please n…
So Zimbio is a very cool new collaborative media company that I've been working with a bit. Their founders are excellent people, and their product is great.…
I enjoyed a recent exchange amongst a few conflict resolution blogs (this one, ICT4Peace, and Diane Levin’s Online Guide to Mediation) focused on games, virtual…