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…
As usual, Rebecca MacKinnon has the best coverage of the current state of censorship in China. She is a must read. Her latest post is on MSNSpaces censorship…
Video (click big show highlight). My Favorite line from Letterman: I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but I have a feeling about 60% o…
Larry Lessig's column in the Financial Times: "Creatives face a closed Net," Jennifer Granick's column in Wired News: Go Back to Afghanistan,…
I'm going to be teaching "Law Technology and Privacy" at the law school this semester. I'm working on pulling together the syllabus and wonde…
皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。 本年もどうぞよろしくお願いします！ 今年は、このBlogも、もう少し頻繁に更新することを目標にします！（笑） さてさて、本当にご無沙汰しておりましたので、ちょっと近況など。 昨年9月に、4年2ヶ月の留学を終えて日本に帰国し、10月から職場に復帰しました。 私が不在の間に二度の合…
Yes, I'm behind a bit. The trips in December, the holidays, the unexpected workload, yadda yadda, blah blah... alas, I am back on track and we're puttin…
Online music sales, copyright, media aren't my main focus as a CIS Fellow, but I do burn a fair bit of time exploring the issues. I recently designed some m…
People make mistakes: errors of judgement (say, choosing a vote counting technology that is unreliable or open to fraud); and errors of execution ("pushing…
I have been away from blogging the last few weeks primarily because my new (six months) computer's hard drive died. This followed the LCD display dying in…
Jeffery Hart had a great piece in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday characterizing the core tenets of American conservatism. It does a very good job presentin…
Dec 27, 2005- Commentary on law.com titled "The Virtue of an Activist Judge in a Time of Terror."…
I wrote a commentary piece for law.com about how activist judges can be a virtue in a time when the Administration is being activist in stretching the boundarie…