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…
Digital Cultural Institutions Project – Summer 2004 Awards Competition The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce a 2004 summer awards competit…
The comment by Juergen makes a good point. It is not just about having a critical public. We also have to institutionalize values of public interest in the oper…
This article over at the New York Times reports on a study about Diebold's voting system vulnerabilities.…
I'm excited that I'm starting my own blog here at CIS! Hope I can provide some interesting news, comments and thoughts, mainly stuff that's somewha…
Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Working Document on Trusted Computing Platforms and in particular on the work done by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG…
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which is an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy under the European Data Protection D…
OK, so we all know Friendster, Orkut, Tribes, Sixdegrees, etc., etc. Enter Couch Surfing. For those not in the know (I had to look it up), couch surfing is wher…
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi & Christian Stüble, Taming "Trusted Platforms" by Operating System Design, in: Chae & Yung (eds.), 4th International Worksh…
There are also areas outside trusted computing where something like an owner override feature already exists. Some web browsers (such as Safari, Opera, and Konq…
First SCO, now Microsoft -- offering bounties for the author(s) of MyDoom. Okay, putting aside the fact that the author(s) of MyDoom (*cough*scriptkiddies*coug…
Things are getting out of hand with comment spam round here. FYI, I'm dropping the Movable Type hammer. (AKA the delete comment button).…
Coming to the San Francisco Independent Film Festival is the new film Value Added Cinema; a flick constructed entirely by editing together egregious product-pla…