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…
Marketplace Safety Columns in the eBay Chatter May 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 June 2005…
While comments are very welcome about anything on my blog, ironically enough we at the Center for Internet and Society are having technical difficulties getting…
The FOM Policy Summit held earlier this month sounds like it was a an excellent event. But don't take my word for it... you can listen to many of the sessi…
At the moment, neither the comments link nor the archive are working. So, for those of you who are aching to comment on my blog, or to do a tasteful retrospect…
As I write this entry, the background music being played is a cassette tape of Little Feat's classic live album, Waiting for Columbus. I've had the tap…
Vnunet.com reports that P2P eDonkey is now shutting its doors. So, if you are keeping score, in the post-Grokster playoffs, its 2-0 in favor of the RIAA.…
Yesterday the CIS and the Berkman Center collaboratively hosted a workshop on ID-Management centered around Microsofts proposal for an ID-Metasystem. Except a c…
Professor Lemley's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today on copyright law in the post-Grokster world contains a good summary of the question…
Kevin Maney at USA Today had an interesting article last week on the backlog at the PTO caused by insufficient numbers of patent examiners who are unable to kee…
These days, trying to figure out where a friend might be registered can lead you anywhere on the Internet. So it is tonight that such a search lead me to my ve…
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is looking to hire a Webmaster/ Interaction Designer, responsible for maintaining, updating, and e…
There is no blog-type software-bugs-are-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse commentary needed for this. Just check out these pictures, courtesy of CNet. Is this just pla…