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…
Cross-posted from Ammori.org In recent months, some copyright holders, pharmaceutical companies, and state attorneys general have made allegations against Inte…
Recent research suggests a new trend among paranoid schizophrenics: they believe they are secretly being taped by hidden cameras for purposes of a reality show.…
On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law…
Daniel Solove and I have recently posted a draft of our new article, The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy. One of the great ironies about information priv…
CIS affiliates Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog won the two best paper awards at the 2013 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Ryan Calo for his paper “Digital Market…
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is a thought leader on consumer privacy and a source for potential solutions. Th…
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
Cross-posted from EFF. Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…
Cross-posted from Wired. If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford confere…
In a closely watched vote that ended within the past hour, the US House of Representatives narrowly rejected Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment (205-217)…