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…
Tony McFadden, TPM Matrix. List of known TPM manufacturers and implementations. 2005.…
How come there's not more outrage about Bush's solution to the FEMA problem that the military become the nation's first responders to natural disast…
I understand why doctors are upset that their disgruntled patients are criticizing them online, but in the big picture, isn't this a good thing? The doctor…
David Olson is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society. David’s current research interests are in the areas of software/business method patent…
David Levine is a Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Aside from the copyright and fair use areas for which CIS has become known,…
The Dutch goverment plans to consolidate all information about its citizens in a centralized database. Introduced as a tool to help to identify troubled childre…
Thanks everyone! I'm new to the area (for clarity, "the area" is the immediate surroundings to Stanford), and love it so far. Alas, the one majo…
Bruce Schneier has written an interesting and widely-circulated blog entry about TCG's Best Practices document. He is wondering why the document applies to…
It has been suggested that I should be outraged that The Go-Fuck-Yourself-Mister-Cheney guy (Daily Kos for covereage) was followed home by the secret service wh…
Since going open source with software has potential benefits for South Africa it is time to consider a policy shift towards Open Knowledge for South African edu…
The South African government has adopted a policy to use open source software as far as possible As a result there will be increased opportunities for local de…
My Colleague Jennifer Granick is the newest columnest at WiredNews. In her first column, she describes how some innovative websites were able to centralize info…