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…
On October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy about encryption. I have a lot to say about his remarks, so this w…
This is my third and most intemperate blog post about the European Commission’s recent Communication on platforms and illegal content. The first two point out s…
This is the second of three posts about the Commission's Communication on Tackling Illegal Content Online. Post One addresses problems with relying on count…
This is the first of three posts about the Commission's Communication on Tackling Illegal Content Online. Post Two addresses problems with relying on filter…
On September 18, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed a new policy for collecting immigrants’ social media information. According to a Notice publ…
Last month, the Supreme Court of California may have decided the future of the public’s access to “smart city” data without knowing it. In ACLU v Los Angeles Po…
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The Equifax data breach was yet another cybersecurity incident involving…
Most observers cheered when the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer was booted from YouTube, CloudFlare, and other platforms around the Internet. At the same time, the site’…
The August 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the recognition of the fundamental right to privacy in India, efforts in…
The August 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the recognition of the fundamental right to privacy in India, efforts in…
Tool Without A Handle: Metaphors of Gender It’s difficult to recall an internal memo gone viral that has sparked as much commentary as James Damore’s statemen…
In today's highly digitized world, copyright infringement actions, among others, are often brought against alleged infringers using information culled from…