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…
In a recent paper on the forthcoming GPL version 3, Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen mention briefly the potential tension between trusted computing and the ope…
As any decent blog in the U.S. seems to require a posting on today's Grokster decision by the Supreme Court, here are my $ 0.02 (for a very interesting disc…
I have not yet completed reading through today's two Supreme Court opinions (over 100 pages, and I'm a fairly slow reader...) but what I have read so fa…
This is a great ruling for cable giants and a bad ruling for consumers. For the opinion, click here.…
Information about the Supreme Court ruling in Grokster can be found here, including the opinion and a discussion blog.…
In response to the EFF and Public Knowledge action alerts this week regarding the Broadcast Flag issue, I emailed Senator Feinstein my concerns. Her response e…
The Copyright Office announced today that it will be holding roundtable discussions about the Orphan Works issues. Here are the details from the announcement:…
I loved Linda Stone’s presentation at Supernova 2005 about “Continuous Partial Attention” – focusing on how we will manage all the incoming information (from ou…
I have been attending Supernova 2005 in SF this week and it’s been, in a word, connected. That’s the theme of the conference, but it’s also amazing for me to s…
Recently, the Supreme Court of Connecticut decided that enforcing a speed limit on a rental car by a GPS-based system is illegal. Decision is here.…
Since June 1. 70.000 so called 'e-cards' are delivered daily to Austrias citizens. By the end of the year all 8 million austrian people will be issued t…
Recently, the Best Practices Committee of the TCG published a document entitled "Design, Implementation, and Usage Principles for TPM-Based Platforms"…