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…
The Citoyen of Electronic Government with Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch…
What is a blog if not an opportunity to implicitly or explicitly convince the wary that you have something valuable to say, and then say it? Or, at least, show…
Today North Carolinas State Board of Elections has included Diebold to the list of recommended manufactures of voting maschines. This ruling comes despite the f…
Maybe I'm the last to notice, but check out Pete Ashdown running against Senator Hatch. Particularly his issues list and his campaign wiki. I guess it'…
Stanford Law student Dana Powers points me to this Washington Post article where BellSouth is asking for the right to regulate quality of service on their netwo…
On an ongoing patent infringement battle between Research In Motion and NTP might lead to a BlackBerry service shutdown sometime within the month. A recent NY…
I'm off to London next week to give a couple lectures with my colleague, Elizabeth Townsend Gard, who is teaching at the London School of Economics this yea…
Hendrik Hertzberg has a great About Town entry in the New Yorker talking about Jean Schmidt, who recently gained notoriety for her slam against Jack Murtha, the…
Marjane Satrapi has a great hand-illustrated piece in the New York Times about perspectives on the U.S. in modern day France: http://satrapi.page.nytimes.com/b…
Ira Williams has posted a great article (beautifully laid out in a PDF, btw) on ChangeThis called "Speak Softly." Definitely worth a read. http://ch…
There's a very cool global, participatory exercise happening yesterday, today, and tomorrow called Habitat JAM. It's being sponsored by the UN, the gov…
During a surfing session I have come across a site that offers a quite detailed review (in English) of Italy’s most important legislation that covers data prote…