I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Almost three months after the federal elections in Germany, the leaders of coalition parties have finally concluded a non-binding coalition agreement that inclu…
If there ever was a “year of privacy,” surely it was 2013. A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting “privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making f…
When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contrary decisions about the constitutio…
Co-authored with Patrick Mutchler. This is a project of the Stanford Security Lab. Just over a month ago we launched MetaPhone, an Android app for crowdsourcin…
As I've recently mentioned on a few shows, despite my reservations about not making the show "about me," Show #200 will be guest host Denise Howel…
“Tool Without A Handle: Getting a Grip” In my last post, I explored how law influences use of information technology through both rules and a concomitant degr…
Yesterday, I wrote that the report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies--"Liberty And Security In A Changing W…
Today’s report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies–”Liberty And Security In A Changing World”—is impressive in a n…
Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the saf…
The much-anticipated Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies report (PDF) "Liberty and Security in a Changing World" was released…
Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion in Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens Ltd. P’ship, Case No. 12-2543 (4th Cir. Dec. 17, 2013) (“ Bouchat V ”)—the latest…
UPDATE 2: A new 2016 version of SAE J3016 is now freely available! UPDATE 1: The old 2014 version of SAE J3016 is here, and a free summary is here. SAE Inter…