If there’s a robot in your house, chances are it’s a Roomba. But that could be about to change. A new generation of home robots is coming—adorable, loaded with contemporary artificial intelligence and designed to charm their way into your family.
Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act…
This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them. Key Takeaways * F…
Ever since the 1930s, self-driving cars have been just 20 years away. Many of those earlier visions, however, depended on changes to physical infrastructure tha…
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger Network neutrality prevents broadband Internet service providers from micromanaging our lives online. Constraining the ne…
STATEMENT REGARDING CONSENT TO FILE AND SEPARATE BRIEFINGAll parties and intervenors have consented to the filing of this brief. Amici Curiae filed their notice…
Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, 1 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 411 (2014) (SSRN) This 2014 law review article (an upda…
I welcome the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in a…
For two years, network neutrality, the nation’s most high-profile and contentious Internet policy conflict has taken a backseat to other debates—privacy investi…
Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Gasser address the legal complexities that could threaten to bedevil the automated vehicle program. Read the full article in Thinki…
Book Website From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…
Book Website MIT Press / 14 September 2012 (Paperback) MIT Press / 17 August 2010 (Hardcover) Today—following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemplo…
An op-ed from CNN. Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security for the computer sy…
The concept of implied confidentiality has deep legal roots, but it has been largely ignored by the law in online-related disputes. A closer look reveals that i…