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Nevada Governor Signs Driverless Car Bill Into Law
According to the Nevada Legislature's website, AB 511 "revis[ing] certain provisions governing transportation" passed the Assembly (36-6) and the…
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Court Holds ECPA allows Myspace to Disclose Private Messages Pursuant to Out Of State Warrant
On June 1, Judge Kaplan of the Southern District of New York dismissed the complaint in Hubbard v. Myspace. Hubbard is the latest case to reject the claim that…
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Proposed GPS Act Clarifies, Improves Location Privacy
On June 15, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) announced the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, a statute which would require law e…
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High-Profile Litigation Over Use of Embedded Open Source Software in Germany
In a press release from today the Free Software Foundation Europe announces the opening of the court proceedings in the litigation between a maker of DSL router…
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On The Legality Of Driverless Vehicles: A Response To Tyler Cowen
I agree with most everything economist Tyler Cowen said in his insightful New York Times op ed about autonomous vehicles. This technology holds tremendous promi…
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Building a Civic Commons
Now that I've joined the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, it's time I started stretching my blogging muscles here. It's thril…
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Video: Ryan Calo - Personalization and Privacy
Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project, spoke in the Personalization and Privacy panel at the 2011 Personalization Summit. Watch the full panel vid…
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Another State Supreme Court Considers Warrantless GPS Tracking
On Friday, the ACLU of Delaware filed a brief with the Delaware Supreme Court arguing that law enforcement agents should not be permitted to attach a GPS device…
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Robot Film Festival July 16-17, NYC
If you're in New York City this summer, you might want to check out the inaugural Robot Film Festival. The festival runs July 16 and 17. Entries welcome u…
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Privacy's Broken Windows
Wake Forest Law Review asked me to respond to an interesting privacy article by Patricia Sánchez Abril for their new online supplement, The Forum. I was happy…
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Article on Online Advertising and Privacy in the May issue of Communications of the ACM
The May 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM has a Viewpoint article entitled, "Economic and Business Dimensions: Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeti…
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Hearsay Culture shows 136 and 137 -- Prof. David Post and Kevin Poulsen -- posted
At long last (end of semester craziness, primarily, caused the delay), I am pleased to post two new shows! The first, Show #136, April 12 is my interview with…