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…
From an AP story by Ji-Soo Kim: "This work can be done much better in Oriental hands," cloning master Hwang Woo-suk recently told the journal Nature…
I confess to being surprised that the Times editorial that I read (in the national edition in paper form) this morning misspelled Gandhi's name. I'm s…
A couple articles today discuss copyright concerns that Google is facing with respect to its "Library Project." Business Week reports in this article…
In addition to the slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford, there is also an audio version available. Furthermore, I have creat…
The photo shows a young man, a taxi driver in Afghanistan, who, according to reports, was brutally killed by American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base in Afgha…
May 20, 2005- Speak at Online Deliberation Conference on legal issues and user participation online.…
As of yesterday there is finally a end-user friendly Mac OS X version of Tor. Tor is a small tool endorsed by the EFF that allows users to anonymize their webtr…
Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting with Dr. Shirin Ebadi along with a few other faculty members here at UC Davis. The previous night she had given a pub…
As a BBC report from April indicates, there are allegations that guards at Guantanamo put an inmate's face in the toilet and flushed repeatedly. What if it…
The economic difference on either side of the straits dividing Spain and Morocco are hard to believe. To the north, the average gross national income/per capit…
Irshad Manji speaks out against "the bloody, fiery riots that, in the name of honoring Islam, are killing an increasing number of Muslims and non-Muslims.&…
Sony unveiled its new game machine a few days after Microsoft unveils its machine. The Sony machine seems amazingly powerful, with microprocessors far speedier…