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…
The recent Forrester report suggests that the publicity attending the furor over offshore outsourcing caused executives to consider the option more seriously, a…
The cyberlaw clinic over at the Berkman Center at Harvard is in the news this week with an amicus brief helping the court understand the nuts and bolts of file-…
The FCC is currently considering whether to change how spectrum is allocated now that new technologies have made the resource less scarse. Spectrum = speech, a…
Privacy International has published a public opinion survey (PDF-File) on the proposed National ID Card in the UK. The representative Poll contains some interes…
“Mapping the Information Environment: Legal Aspects of Modularization and Digitalization,” Dan Wielsch's new article in the Yale Journal of Law & Techno…
My friend Jack Ayer points me to one site where folks are voting for their favored economist for the big prize. Paul Krugman is at the top, but that's prob…
What are your favorite toddler picture books? I like "Good night, Gorilla," written and illustrated by Peggy Rathmann (1994) (a nice coincidence, &qu…
Open Source Development Labs, the organization for which Torvalds currently works, will henceforth require contributors to Linux to certify their contributions.…
The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion. Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more ho…
At the end every question concerning the information habitats may indeed boil down to a decision between freedom v. control. The legitimate function of this har…
Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra & Michael Franz, Semantic Remote Attestation - A Virtual Machine directed approach to Trusted Computing, in: Proceedings of the…
Jan Camenish, Better Privacy for Trusted Computing Platforms, in: Samarati (ed.), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2004, Lecture Notes in Com…