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…
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…
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,"…