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…
In a recent decision, the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany, established a case…
The Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany, decided on actions against internet servi…
My recently completed article presents steps that governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. After p…
The FBI demand for access to a locked iPhone by compelling Apple to write new software to undo its security features has sucked the oxygen out of the surveillan…
Tracking the institutional response of state and local governments to cyber threats is relatively tough in many cases. Security concerns, rapid changes, and li…
The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response yesterday to Apple's motion to vacate the court’s order that directed Apple to write new code and certify…
On March 7, 2016, I had the pleasure of giving a talk to the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association at Berkeley Law. I discussed the so-called "Apple…
The Spanish Supreme Court (TS) has recently ruled on the legality of using someone else’s trademark as a keyword to trigger sponsored ads in Google Adwords. The…
“Tool Without a Handle”: Tools for Terror; Tools for Peace This blog has addressed principles and challenges in countering odious online content – both conten…
Right now, all eyes are on Riverside, California, where a federal magistrate judge issued an unprecedented and dangerous order to Apple on February 16 compellin…
The FBI investigates a grizzly murder. You are a bank president. The murderer stored his phone book in your bank's safety deposit box, the code for which is…
February 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-february/ Retrospect is a flagship publication…