I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
As robots leave the factory and battlefield and enter our homes, hospitals, and skies, it is not clear who will come to regulate them. But we can begin to spot…
Finnish organization Asymco publishes a series of graphics trending 35 years of computing technology. These are great graphics, identifying the disruptive disp…
The Public Policy Council of the ACM publishes its position on the SOPA and PIPA acts... taking a neutral stance explaining the issues from their technological…
A wave of opposition has crashed over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect I.P. Act (PIPA) based on the tremendous threat…
Happy new year, Friends. It is starting out to be a great 2012 for me. I've taken a position as General Counsel for Worldstar LLC and its flagship website…
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…