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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
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…
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Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 1 of 3)
The Ninth Circuit has decided Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal, and the outcome is in every respect bad news for LiveJournal. In some respects, it’s also bad f…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's March in Retrospect: Intermediary Liablity in Germany and Sweden, Requests to be De-Indexed in Europe, Fake News, and more
The March 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about Intermediary Liability in Germany and Sweden, a decision on a request to…
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Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban and Copyright Liability for Device Distributors
Amazon’s latest effort to mitigate IP infringement in its third-party seller program is a ban on the sale of streaming media devices (“Kodi boxes”) that promote…
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Leaks, geeks, & reporters
The recent spat of Washington D.C. leaks is "unusually active," according to FBI Director Mr. James Comey. Even if the leaks are as normal as they are…
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"Neural Lace," Extended Cognition, and Privacy
Imagine a world, not as distant as we might like to think, where our individual thought processes are aided and improved by technologies external to the biologi…
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The WikiLeaks CIA release: When will we learn?
The WikiLeaks CIA release: When will we learn? This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Richard Forno, University…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's February in Retrospect: Right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, Blocking Orders in Sweden and Russia, and more
The February 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, information about block…
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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools" - Part 2
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. This pos…
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A Response to Paul Vixie’s "Notice, Takedown, Borders, and Scale”
Late last month, I posted to SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article, “Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Conten…
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"Smart Cities" Are Too Smart for Your Privacy
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter…
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Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving recommended that governments conduct "legal audits" to "identify and analyze every statute and regu…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's January in Retrospect: fake news in the EU, “toxic” content in Vietnam, and other cases
The January 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available.Retrospect is the flagship, open-access publication of the Internet & Jurisdiction policy network, d…