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…
A number of technologies have been touted to offer consumers control over third-party web tracking. This post reviews the tools that are available and presents…
I'm thrilled to post the Hearsay Culture schedule for the fall quarter 2011! Looking forward to another great quarter!…
I'm pleased to post the last Hearsay Culture show of the summer quarter, Show #149, August 31, my interview with Prof. Susan Shirk of the University of Cali…
Isn’t it great that when your car, or phone, or laptop gets lost or stolen, you can use modern technology to find your stuff and get it back? One might think on…
UPDATE: The government's brief and our reply are now posted below. Oral argument is scheduled for October 5. Today we filed our opening brief in the U.S. Su…
Yesterday Bay Area Cleantech startup Solyndra declared bankruptcy. The reasons are basically business related, but some surround an problem I’ve noted regardin…
Not many people in the legal academy study artificial intelligence or robotics. One fellow enthusiast, Kenneth Anderson at American University, posed a provoca…
I am pleased to post two more shows for the fall quarter. The first, Show 147, August 17 is my interview with Prof. Marcus Boon of York University, discussing…
This week, Eastern District of New York Judge Nicholas Garaufis rejected an FBI effort to use an individual’s cell phone tower records to track his movements ov…
Schleswig-Holstein is a small German state located at the very northern tip of the Federal Republic. It is home for enchanting cities such as Kiel and Lübeck, l…
Abercrombie & Fitch has offered to pay Jersey Shore cast member Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino not to wear its clothing. I hesitate to give this publicity…
Despite all the attention they've received in the debates around online privacy, cookies are far from the only way to track a user. Broadly speaking, a webs…