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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…
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Thoughts on 'DOGE' and violating protocols that protect government computer systems
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission tasked with…
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What exactly is Salt Typhoon?
Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the American telecommunications network have the U.S. government sounding the a…
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Here's Where Federal Automated Driving Law Stands Near the End of the Biden Administration
This post offers a primer on federal legislation, regulation, and policy with respect to automated vehicles (AVs) – that is, motor vehicles equipped with an aut…
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A Deutsche Telekom Shakedown: Will Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp slow to a crawl in Germany as DT tries to get paid twice, and will German regulators have the courage to stop DT’s bullying?
We are about to see whether the largest and most powerful telecom in Europe, Deutsche Telekom (DT), can force websites and apps to pay so-called “network fe…
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Lessons from the Israel pager attack
Electronic pagers across Lebanon exploded simultaneously on Sept. 17, 2024, killing 12 and wounding more than 2,700. The following day, another wave of expl…