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…
Capturing the Moment Last week, the wizards of Silicon Valley met for dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, two days after the Administration proposed its 2…
From vehicles that detect pedestrians in the road to cars capable of navigating urban terrain without human intervention, autonomous driving is currently one of…
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards In…
I am pleased to post two more shows for the Winter Quarter. The first, Show #129, January 11, 2011, is my interview with CIS' own Ryan Calo, Director, Cons…
Website scraping, which is the bulk extraction of website information by software, is becoming an increasingly visible activity. The Lovely-Faces controversy sh…
Quoted verbatim from a recent DMCA takedown letter: IMPORTANT NOTICE: None of the information contained in this legal notice is to be transmitted and/or relea…
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
Here’s an interesting (to me, at least) trade secret case involving restoration of antique aircraft. Brent Taylor purchased the carcass of an F-45, a 1930s era…
This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. than ever before, and whether women of all ages a…
Sounds like a strange heading, I know. Well – here’s the strange story to go along with it: Israeli daily Haaretz reports on its front page today that Israel de…
UPDATE: Briefing for the cert. stage is now complete. You can read the government's opposition to our cert. petition here, and our reply in support of our c…
High achievers such as Stanford law students and global privacy leaders don't usually revel in being called "adequate". But the European Commissio…