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…
A few weeks ago, composer Jason Robert Brown blogged about his campaign against online sheet music traders, including an interesting email exchange between him…
My new paper explores what is unique about privacy harm. How does privacy harm differ from other injury? And what do we gain by defining its boundaries and co…
Video of two recent presentations of mine are now on the web, just in case you might not have been able to catch them in person. Here's a talk I did last w…
Better late than never, I’ve finally given a close read to the Notice of Inquiry issued by the FCC on June 17th. (See my earlier comments, “FCC Votes for Recla…
I dashed off a quick analysis of the Bilski decision for CNET yesterday (see “Supreme Court Hedges on Business Method Patents”), a follow-up to a piece I…
Jan Hoffman in the NYT today: "The seventh-grade guidance counselor says she can spend up to three-fourths of her time mediating conflicts that began onli…
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to say a few things about the District Court’s decision in the Viacom v. YouTube case this week and. This will be a four-…
Representatives from the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand will convene this Monday in Lucerne for the Ninth round of A…
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society seeks scholars and practitioners interested in a formal affiliation with the Center for the 2010-2012 academic year…
Friedman in the NYT today: "Why do we have to recruit and train our allies, the Afghan Army, to fight? That is like someone coming to you with a plan to re…
Last year, we won an important victory for our clients when the District Court held the URAA violates the First Amendment insofar as it suppresses parties'…
ACM Computers Freedom Privacy is in its 20th year. This year was exciting to me in that robots entered the mix. My panel on the topic featured forecaster and…