Interoperability and distributed content moderation models have tremendous promise. They could temper major platforms’ power over public discourse, introducing…
Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Vigilantes “This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them…
“This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do…
To understand more about what the executive order means for Big Tech and how the FTC is likely to act on it, I spoke this week with Woodrow Hartzog, a professor…
Thomas B. Considine, CEO of the National Council of Insurance Legislators, said there aren’t yet special legal or regulatory requirements related to personal in…
Given that it will take years, or perhaps decades, before AVs are in the majority on roads, a self-driving vehicle mandate may be a long and gradual process bef…
Bryant Walker Smith, who studies autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolina, said he was surprised a command was never issued to halt the Waymo veh…
While a driver is legally responsible for such misbehavior, the fine print in Tesla advertising provides a weak defense against deceptive marketing allegations,…
This blog post is based off of a talk I gave on May 12, 2021 at the Stanford Computer Science Department’s weekly lunch talk series on computer security topics.…
ACA Connects, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Rob Bonta, Defendant-AppelleePlaintiffs argue SB-822 is preempted because Congress occupied the entire field of…
The industry used similar arguments in its attempts to prevent states like California from passing net neutrality rules. But so far, the courts haven’t looked k…
And the "sheer size of the state" is another important factor, said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor in the School of Law and the School of En…