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 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…
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
Earlier this month, Without My Consent (my CIS fellow project) reached its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we're pleased to announce our first speaker p…
Anyone who has ever attended law school in the United States knows what legal clinics are about. In recent years, clinical work with students in law school sett…
My fellow project for CIS, Without My Consent, just reached the one-year anniversary of its June 2011 launch. We recently gained our 501(c)(3) status and are no…
California's autonomous driving bill (SB 1298) has undergone further amendment. Two observations: What's changed: The newest version takes an increment…
Cross posted from Netarchitecture.org. Over the past ten years, the debate over “network neutrality” has remained one of the central debates in Internet policy…
Cross-posted Mercury News. California could improve economic development and save on debt service by diversifying and relocalizing its banking. As a major glob…