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…
I wrote a new essay entitled “Code, Nudge, or Notice?” that might interest CIS readers. The essay compares side-by-side three ways that the government tries to…
CISPA, Redux. Given the recent high-profile incidents regarding the systemic hacking of prominent news organizations, it’s not surprising to see cybersecurity…
Patent trolls — companies that assert patents as a business model instead of creating products — have been in the news lately. This is hardly surprising, given…
The Hacker Manifesto lauds the world of the electron and the switch, where the talented are treated equally and the values of curiosity and exploration reign su…
Law professor and cybercrime expert Orin Kerr published a proposal to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to address the overcriminalization that he h…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic By Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Facebook's announcement of its new Graph search tool on Tuesday set off yet another ro…
Yesterday, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced on Reddit a bill to improve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide during t…
Below is part 2 of the post Towards Learning from Losing Aaron Swartz. The CFAA is incredibly broad and covers swaths of online conduct that should not merit p…
Law Professor and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act expert Orin Kerr wrote today in his usual thorough and well-informed fashion about the legal claims in Aaron Swar…
Over the weekend, I learned that Aaron Swartz had taken his own life. I cried, and am still crying, for him, his family, for the close friends who loved him, a…
Cross-posted from Wired. Every so often in human history, something new comes along that warrants a celebration, and that deserves its own holiday. That’s why…
Konomark is my project with CIS. In this post, I’m reporting the results of the first phase of my beta test. Konomark aims to encourage the sharing of copyrigh…