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…
According to a recently published decision of the German Federal Supreme Court (judgment of 16 May 2013, I ZR 216/11) eBay shall be liable for copyright infring…
In spite of an inflamed debate and strong opposition, as we have reported here and here, the Board of the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) approved its r…
Today, the federal District Court for the District of Columbia held that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program under the USA PATRIOT Act viol…
A decision this week by the Court of Appeals of São Paulo dominated local news on Internet liability, triggering passionate discussions amongst Brazilian intern…
Civil society has reacted negatively to the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) Proposal for an administrative system of online copyright enforcement. Appro…
An Advocate General with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently issued an opinion that courts may order Internet Service Providers to block access to copy…
Cross-posted from Just Security. By Jennifer Granick and Thomas Earnest Today’s Washington Post report that the National Security Agency (NSA) is gathering ne…
In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn viewing, online sexual activity and…
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently launched its 2013-2014 call for funding proposals for its Contribution Program, a $500,000 funding envelope to condu…
Cross-posted from Open Law Lab. I’ve just posted a project summary up for my team’s work at the FWD.us DREAMer Hackathon at the Program for Legal Tech & De…
Cross-posted from USA Today. Outrageous and possibly illegal. That's what Google's executive chairman called the latest chapter in the NSA saga – news…
In a new post over at Just Security, I look at the recently declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions on bulk collection of Internet…