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…
Per today's ruling, injunctions against European ISPs requiring them to apply filtering tools that monitor traffic to prevent copyright infringement offici…
We're thrilled to announce the release of Privicons for Google Chrome, a tool for helping users deal with email carelessness: innocent misunderstandings and…
The University of Miami School of Law is hosting a conference on the legal and policy aspects of robotics in April 2012 (the same month as National Robotics Wee…
Today Congress held hearings on the latest IP legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We are taking part in American Censorship Day to help spread the w…
What a busy semester -- aside from doing Hearsay Culture, I've been teaching my two classes (Contracts and IP Survey), writing an article on social media an…
Representatives Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren joined eight other members of Congress in urging the House Judiciary Committee to reject SOPA because it would cause…
Digital identity is used online not only in contexts requiring strong authentication, such as e-government or online banking, but also in less formal interactio…
At Without My Consent, the non-profit I co-founded (which is also my fellows project here at CIS), we're coming to the conclusion of our first year of opera…
Yesterday the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) announced a supplementary set of self-regulatory principles for third parties on the web (pdf, press release).…
Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions With the help of law and changing norms, invidious discrimination has become less prevalent in arenas like schools, workp…
Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions The Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), enacted in 1998 and finalized in 2000, requires commercial websites that…
Last July, I signed on to a letter from more than 100 law professors urging Congress to reject the PROTECT-IP Act. A new version of that bill -- referred to as…