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 Friday last week Jim Emerson posted a very good analysis of a Charles Krauthammer column from the same day called Oscars for Osama. Krauthammer devoted his…
In the midst of the various legal battles involving free speech and what can and cannot be said in public spaces -- Howard Stern's laudable battles being fo…
I found this quote attributed to Tim O'Reilly -- my apologies if it's not accurate. For the sake of my remarks I'll need you all to believe it is a…
As I predicted, Congress has caved to the White House. Instead of investigating the President's illegal warrentless wiretaps, they have instead imposed new…
One of the issues we discuss a lot in the Law, Tech, and Privacy class concerns records that have previously been available through government sources (such as…
I hope my legal writing students read my blog because I have a tip for them: Make sure your briefs are comprehensible, include sound legal reasoning and argumen…
From SlashDot: Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums Total Information Awareness Lives On SiteAdvisor Help…
Imagine if your internet service came in different grades: if you were willing to pay $40 per month, your access to the Net would be as fast as possible; if yo…
Even after doing extensive research on the current status of encryption law, I am still somewhat confused. What's the current government strategy for overc…
Last week I received a question from JD Lasica. He asked me "If I videotape a street musician performing in public, can I post it to my noncommercial blog…
When Senator Wyden, D-Oregon, spoke at Stanford Law School on the February 17th, he said he does not have enough information about the NSA warrantless domestic…
Elizabeth Townsend Gard and I will be panelists in the HigherEdBlogCon from April 3-7, 2006. We will be discussing legal aspects of podcasting in teaching and h…