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…
Technology that helps to save human lives is now endangered by the copyright enforcement. In World Disasters Report 2013, the Red Cross celebrated an innovatio…
The controversy over the so called “right to be forgotten” recently surfaced in Mexico. A few months ago, the Mexican National Institute for the Access to Infor…
May 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-may/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Int…
Serious cyber attacks and incidents – the kind that have serious long-term consequences - are, thankfully, relatively rare in most state and local governments.…
The current debate in Congress over whether to allow Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire has revived the interest of many in the question of surveillan…
Since 9/11 the spectre of 'terrorism' and the ethos of what I term 'Everwar' and the permanent state of national emergency have permeated the Co…
There's recently been some great reporting and advocacy regarding the legal status of the software running modern motor vehicles. Here are a few academic pe…
"Am I a crook?" A design client recently asked me this question about one its designs, and whether is was legally inspired by or stolen from other wor…
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had som…
Welcome news today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. By a vote of 11 to 1, the court overturned its injunction against the controversial video…
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated v…
April 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-april/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the…