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 have a long opinion piece on CNet today, arguing that much of the talk of “reclassifying” or “relabeling” broadband Internet access to bring it under the FCC’…
James Carroll in the Globe: "We may dislike the tax bite, but we loathe the destruction of civic pillars and the deliberate unraveling of safety nets. Citi…
The response to WhatApp.org has been wonderful, thanks! We now have over 20 registered and approved experts from a wide variety of sectors, including privacy c…
Robert Samuelson today: "...the public agenda gravitates toward issues framed as moral matters. Global warming is about "saving the planet." Abor…
UPDATE: Unvarnished changed its privacy policy, addressing some of the problems I mentioned. Thanks! I recently wrote about my disappointment in Unvarnished’s…
CBS News: "In an interview with CBS News' Harry Smith yesterday, President Obama was asked if he is "aware of the level of enmity that crosses the…
UPDATE: I had a good meeting with Peter Kazanjy about Unvarnished. My thoughts on that meeting and what I learned here. Among other things, Unvarnished has no…
As the Wall Street Journal is already reporting, today eBay sustained an important win in its long-running dispute with Tiffany over counterfeit goods sold thro…
I received a link to a fascinating site (http://www.aturingmachine.com) and video of a working model of a Turing Machine (TM). Turing Machines are named for Bri…
In Rehberg v. Hodges, EFF is asking the 11th Circuit to fix an earlier opinion wrongly suggesting that the contents of stored emails are not protected by the Fo…
I have a comment on the NYT Room to Debate forum Google or China: Who Has More to Lose? praising Google's decision not to censor search results on .cn but r…
I had a long interview this morning with the Christian Science Monitor . Like many of the interviews I’ve had this year, the subject was Google. At the incr…