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…
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct charity that fede…
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal prosecution of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer for operating a site called TVShack hit what o…
Last week a story appeared in Fortune magazine hypothesizing that Google and Facebook are using cy pres settlements of privacy class actions to improperly chann…
Google's Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are on Twitter. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is on Google Plus. And Twitter's Jack Dorsey is on Facebook. Isn&#…
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Ph…
Five years. It passes quickly, time as the currency of life. Five years ago (2007), Google surpassed Microsoft as the "most valuable global brand,"…
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my po…
Two published book reviews! An Uncommonly Open Approach, written by Edella Schlager, was published in Science. Paul de Bijl published a review in the Journal…
The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It's provisions expand the government's ability to conduct network surveil…
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…
Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Rom…