Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were tr…
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…
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission tasked with…
Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the American telecommunications network have the U.S. government sounding the a…
This post offers a primer on federal legislation, regulation, and policy with respect to automated vehicles (AVs) – that is, motor vehicles equipped with an aut…
We are about to see whether the largest and most powerful telecom in Europe, Deutsche Telekom (DT), can force websites and apps to pay so-called “network fe…
Electronic pagers across Lebanon exploded simultaneously on Sept. 17, 2024, killing 12 and wounding more than 2,700. The following day, another wave of expl…
Platform laws too often use terms like "design" or "risk mitigation” as euphemisms for mandates that target legally protected expression. When asked GPT about them, its answers said that quiet part out loud.
The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even the delivery of uniforms for…
I’m thrilled to announce that after more than three great years with the Stanford Internet Observatory, as of this month I’ve joined the Stanford Institute for…
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, added more fuel to an already fiery elect…
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is the craze. From pet shop owners to Fortune 500 companies, AI is being used to farm data and analyze facial gestur…
For the past two years, the European Commission has been pushing to radically change the internet and telecommunications market in the EU in order to benefit Eu…
On Tuesday, the FCC released the final text of the 2024 Open Internet Order, which the commission voted to adopt on April 25. Here’s my statement and initial a…