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Micromobility Vehicles in the Park
“Micromobility” refers to a diverse set of transportation modes that, at least on the ground, fall somewhere between traveling by foot and travelin…
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Eight (or so) Questions to Ask about the ChatGPT Warrant
Earlier this week, the indefatigable Thomas Brewster at Forbes, a journalist who’s been covering the digital surveillance beat for years, reported on a search w…
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Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?
It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. T…
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Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As the United States experiences its latest government shutdown, most of the daily operations of the fe…
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A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act
Some U.S. politicians have recently characterized European platform and social media regulation laws as “censorship” of speech in the U.S. If this claim were tr…
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Turquoise lamps on cars that cannot drive themselves
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…
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Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications
Reports that prominent American national security officials used a freely available encrypted messaging app, coupled with the rise of authoritarian policies aro…
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Comparing Robotaxis: Baidu's Apollo and Alphabet's Waymo
This comparison between my experience as a passenger in Baidu’s Apollo robotaxis and Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxis is based on multiple rides I took in Wuhan and S…
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No Two-Tier Internet: Coalition Files Complaint Against Deutsche Telekom
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
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Keine Zweiklassengesellschaft im Internet: Bündnis reicht Beschwerde gegen Deutsche Telekom ein
Epicenter.works, die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv) und Stanford-Professorin Barbara van Schewick haben be…
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Teaching Platform Regulation
This year I taught my “standard” platform regulation course for something like the twelfth time. Here’s the syllabus. The course has changed a lot over the year…
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Privacy law amicus brief to California Supreme Court
This week I joined an esteemed group of legal scholars including Steven Bellovin, Laura Donohue, Susan Freiwald, Eric Goldman, Paul Ohm, and Daniel Solove in su…