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…
Michael Birnhack, a professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is one of the leading thinkers about privacy and data protection today (for some of his pre…
The paperback and Kindle versions of Internet Architecture and Innovation have been released. More information about the book can be found at netarchitecture.or…
[What follows is the short version of a somewhat dated but still relevant, unplaced op-ed. I'll post the long version on the madisonian.net blog for anyone…
Photo: Basking & masking. In China, where sun tan is negatively stigmatized, beach goers wear masks. One of the most significant developments for privacy l…
The Australian government has proposed sweeping changes to its surveillance and national security laws. The government’s wish list includes mandatory data reten…
Earlier this month, U.S. News & World Report ran the following headline: "Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use In Arrest Of American Citizen." The ar…
If you read this blog, chances are you're aware of SXSW, a unique festival exploring music, film, and emerging technology. Recent years have seen one or tw…
Apparently cell phones are prohibited at Norman Thomas High School in Manhattan. Rising to the opportunity, the Pure Loyalty Mobile Device Storage truck, locate…
Today the Sixth Circuit ruled in United States v. Skinner that police do not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile phones. Investigators obtai…
From my opinion piece today on CNN: Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security fo…
Co-authored with Jonathan Mayer. The debate over the meaning of Do Not Track has raged for well over a year now. The primary forum is the W3C Tracking Protecti…
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…