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…
After Steve Friedl has published a shocking statistic about comment spam at CIS blogs, comments have now been disabled. We are still waiting for a central updat…
On July 20, we filed a Motion to Amend the complaint to add the Register of Copyrights as a defendant, clarify relief sought, and conform the complaint to the C…
In response to the Government's summary judgment motion, we filed a Rule 56(f) motion and affidavit seeking discovery. As our motion states, the Government…
Trusted Computing Group Clarifications for the German Insurance Industry Association paper "The Threat, Trusted Computing, to the German Insurance Industry…
ZDNet quotes Jennifer Granick in this article about a giant game of electronic "capture the flag" set to take place next February. Jennifer warns of p…
PC World covers CIS Director Jennifer Granick at Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas. Her talk, "Legal Liability and Security Incident Investigation," wa…
Apple's refusal to license its FairPlay DRM system used in iTunes to RealNetworks and RealNetworks' subsequent attempt to create interoperability by rev…
According to the Associated Press, when asked if he was worn out, the Bush Administration's point person to protect all of us, Tom Ridge said: “I am not aut…
It is not only the United States where the content industry is taking an agressive approach towards its customers. In Germany, a lobbying organization of German…
Mark Danner of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism offers a sobering piece in a recent New York Review of Books on U.S. torture. From his conclusion: The…
Barack Obama just delivered one of the finest speeches I've ever witnessed. Both personal and universal. It presented to us our most noble selves, and cal…
Early reports indicate that the deficit will be released this Friday. Why Friday? Well, because most of us have better things to do on a weekend than watch th…