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…
Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles has continued its rulemaking process for autonomous vehicles by announcing a public hearing on its draft regulations.…
Happy new year! A hectic December has led me to the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, where I'll be discussing the Anti-Counterfeiting Tr…
The January 4, 2012 edition of the New York Times has an editorial by Vinton Cerf entitled "Internet Access Is Not a Human Right." He presents a ve…
Crossposted from Ammori.org. The tech and civil liberties communities have been fighting proposed copyright legislation. Critics have argued that the proposed…
The original post can be found on the netarchitecture.org website. Two weeks ago, various news outlets reported that Verizon Wireless’s new Galaxy Nexus phone,…
I am pleased to announce that our edited volume Robot Ethics: The Social and Ethical Implications of Robotics has now been released by MIT Press. The preface a…
From The Atlantic: Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield--but could they also be used to interrogate and torture suspects? This would avoid a serious…
The Los Angeles Times quotes me over the weekend in its front page story about the use of a Predator B drone to catch a civilian suspect in North Dakota. In my…
Cross posted from Marvin Ammori's Blog Ammori.org. Today, both Professor Laurence Tribe and I submitted letters and legal memoranda to Congress explaining…
A tasty footnote to the 2010-2011 False Marking Litigation Festival: Last week I bought a Nylabone (R) chew toy for Henry. On the back is printed the patent cov…
Nevada's rulemaking process for autonomous driving continues. For the latest version of the draft regulations and information about public workshops in Dece…
Earlier today the FTC released the proposed settlement agreement it reached with Facebook. When it comes to online-privacy investigations, 2011 has been a busy…