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…
A good friend (thanks JPD!) recently pointed me to this essay, adpated from Garrison Keillor's new book "Homegrown Democrat" (Viking 2004). Whate…
I think I posted this once before, but it's worth reposting. Many modern email clients include hooks for encryption/digital signatures that can go a long wa…
This one is lodged somewhere between picayune tidbit and outright plug. My alma mater, Dartmouth College has been at the forefront of wireless deployment for se…
LST Director Mark Lemley filed an amicus brief for technology companies (Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, Google Inc., Micron Technology, Inc., and Microsoft…
From The Late Show with David Letterman: 10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents. 9. W-2 Form is now Dubya-2 Form. 8. Under the sim…
From a letter writer to the NY Times... Right-wing media commentators think that Dan Rather should resign because he made false claims based on documents that…
still havig tech trouble w/movable type - go to http://academiccopyright.typepad.com…
The National Law Journal discusses the Golan v. Ashcroft case in this article ("Trolls are Back -- In Suits Testing Copyright Restoration Law") by Tr…
Wired's Katie Dean has written a nice article on Kahle v. Ashcroft. You can find the article here, and more information about the Kahle case here.…
Wired is running a nice summary of what's been going on in Kahle v. Ashcroft, an important case currently wending its way through N.D. Cal. The key question…
At least in the public sector! Microsoft has announced that it expands its Government Security Program, better known under the name ‘Shared Source”, to its Off…
I am and will be here for the next few days. I have been a regular with this crowd since getting involved in biometrics in 1999 through RAND's project wit…