I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
After a long hiatus, I now plan to return to regularly blogging on this site. To see what I have been up to the past nine months, visit the Peter Jennings Proje…
The U.K.’s freedom of information commissioner, Christopher Graham, recently told The Guardian that the WikiLeaks disclosures irreversibly altered the relations…
On Monday we filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Sony v. Tenenbaum case, pending in in the First Circuit Court of Appea…
Affiliate scholar Marvin Ammori offers eight good reasons why the United States should not prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. I mostly agree with Ammo…
The original post can be found on the netarchitecture.org website. Since the FCC adopted rules to protect an open Internet on Tuesday, many have asked whether…
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…