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…
My friend Shane tells me that Blackberrys work in the NY subways because they run on old radio pager technology. Apparently, the subways have long had radio tr…
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, the magazine Legal Affairs is conducting an online poll of the top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. Of course, they recogn…
CNN.com reminds us that last year, In the middle of the controversy, Rumsfeld appeared before Congress and said he took "full responsibility" for wha…
A few months ago, my Mac crashed and I had to restore the system from scratch. All the music on my computer was gone. But wait--all the music was synced up to…
I've been thinking about the recent copyright office call for comments on orphan works. What is it that I would wish? The word that keeps coming back to m…
The President will announce that those 55 and older will not face benefit changes in their social security. (Presumably, those 55 years or older who are still…
The Washington Post reports on rumors that Bill Clinton may be interested in becoming the next Secretary General. Clinton recently joined forces with the U.N.…
In a remarkable op-ed in the LA Times, John Yoo and Robert Delahunty offer a defense of the Administration's refusal to apply the Geneva Conventions in two…
The Center for Internet and Society and the Stanford Law and Technology Association present their spring 2005 speaker series All talks are at the law school,…
Kevin Drum points out that the most popular right wing bloggers refuse to permit comments on their posts. As I write this, the top ten conservative blogs are I…
The articles section of this blog is now up to date.…
On Saturday, January 15th, German CIS fellows (Barbara van Schewick, Stefan Bechtold, Christoph Engemann, Dan Wielsch and me) had a meeting in Berlin. After tal…