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 decided to write up some thoughts on Wikileaks. Many of our nation’s landmark free speech decisions are not about heroes–several are about flag-burners, r…
ZDNet's Tech Broiler provides an analysis of SB 1411 which goes into effect on Jan. 1. The new Bill creates civil and criminal liablity for, as well as atto…
A frequent misconception of Do Not Track is that the goal is to prevent tracking by online advertisers. In fact, tracking is a much broader problem on the web,…
Related to my work here in robot ethics, the following is an advance look at my paper forthcoming in Journal of Military Ethics: Military 2.0: Ethical Blowba…
Details of the silliness are here. Best part of the story is the photograph of an artist setting up an easel and full array of paints in the Louvre. The Frenc…
The FCC’s Open Internet Proposal – Lessons from Silicon Valley Edit [This is the second of two posts about the FCC's proposal for Open Internet rules. The…
On December 1, the chairman of the FCC proposed a set of rules designed to protect the open Internet. He would like the commission to adopt this proposal at its…
The first meeting of the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group kicked off today at the UN Center in Vienna. The full agenda for the 5 day meeting is here, and the Secreta…
The FCC Chairman has repeatedly, and relentlessly, deployed his favorite talking point: that he is committed to helping "consumers, competition, and innova…
Watch Barbara van Schewick's talk about her book "Internet Architecture and Innovation" recorded on December 1, 2010 at Stanford Law School. Down…
Chennai, India will serve as the host city for the 10th Annual International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution February 7-9, 2011. This conference will bring…
The website Wikileaks recently published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of c…