The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list ...
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Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress
Other lawmakers are alarmed by the FBI’s disclosure of having purchased location information derived from people’s cell phones. During a ...
The US Post Office Is Spying on the Mail. Senators Want to Stop It
The notion that only a mail carrier will view a piece of mail is based on a quainter understanding of ...
A US Bill Would Ban Kids Under 13 From Joining Social Media
While all the major Silicon Valley social media firms—from Instagram to TikTok—say they block children from using their apps, these ...
TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech ...
The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push
When it comes to antitrust and tech, there’s a trust deficit on Capitol Hill, even as pressure to act continues ...
Biden’s SOTU: Data Privacy Is Now a Must-Hit US State of the Union Topic
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2018, provides far-from-perfect data privacy protection, but it stands in stark ...
A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some ...
Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid.The Plain ViewIn late 1969, ...
The New Climate Bill Demands All-American EV Batteries
The lack of a US supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials is often spun as a tale of inconvenient ...