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…
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…
(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…