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…
Monday February 20, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served Human rights atrocities that occur on a massive scale are often t…
Is it possible to mount a challenge to ginormous, incomprehensible, take-it-or-leave-it online contracts and EULAs? Maybe, maybe not. But the issue is getting m…
Thousands of prospective law students take something called the LSAT every year. The LSAT - or law school aptitude test - gauges, or purports to gauge, the int…
Should internet companies spread democracy, privacy, and free speech? Sure, why not? All things being equal, I like democracy, privacy, and free speech as much…
In January 2006, Choicepoint and FTC settled a case claiming that Choicepoint, a consumer-profiling company, violated the FTC Act and the Fair Credit Reporting…
Perhaps you've heard, but if you haven't, check this out: Just last week, the House International Relations subcommittee hauled a number of executives…
James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, has a very interesting piece in this month's Commentary. Here are s…
Feb 17- Moderating panel on "Domestic Spying—Privacy & Security Interests" at Stanford Law & Policy Review Symposium.…
Wowsers! In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a federal judge has ordered (pdf) the Departme…
The EFF posted this very interesting article about the RIAA's filing in the DMCA rule-making proceedings -- apparently, the RIAA thinks that ripping my own…
H.R. 4536 proposes adding an exception to 17 U.S.C. § 1201 for circumvention of access control or copy protection provided that the circumvention is "neces…
A few days ago FT.Com ran a story (available here) about an Ohio company that has embedded RFID (radio frequency ID) technology in two of its employees. Ostens…