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…
(Jovanni Hernandez and Akshay Jagadeesh are the first authors of this study.) Responding to pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, in mid-2009 the largest…
I am pleased to post two more Hearsay Culture shows for this summer quarter. The first is Show #145, July 27, my interview with Prof. Peter Galison of Harvard…
Ryan Calo and I both recently recorded podcasts for the show Surprisingly Free, which is an excellent weekly podcast for anyone interested in law and technology…
$12.5 Billion for a company with a portfolio of 17,000 patents is major news. This news comes on the heels of Google being 0-for-3 in playing big strategic pat…
Consumer robotics and Ryan Calo, director of Robotics at CIS, profiled in this SF gate article. Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into…
I'm guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions this month. My first post explored what the domestic use of drones would mean for privacy law. I also did a t…
This past weekend we saw another volley of rounds fired in the ongoing digital privacy wars. As with previous battles, this one started with the publication of…
Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the public World Wide Web, and there is much to celebrate. The early web consisted of a few text pages linked toge…
The focus of much of my research and writing is the role of secrecy in intellectual property and its impact on governmental operations and society. Thus, I'…
I'm pleased to post the first show in the summer quarter, Show #142, June 29, my interview with Prof. Michael Risch of Villanova University School of Law.…
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The Web is a very different place today; you now leav…
Louis Zukofsky (LZ) is the author of the very long, sometimes difficult, yet always amazing “A”. LZ died in 1978 and his son, Paul Zukofsky (PZ), owns the copy…