The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group has introduced something rare in Washington: a privacy bill with real teeth. The Secure Data Act, unveiled on April 22, proposes…
By Shane Tews | April 30, 2026
The outcome this June in a bellwether trial involving a public school district against leading social media companies for allegedly addicting the district’s students and forcing the district to handle…
By Clay Calvert | April 30, 2026
Shane Tews, David Sullivan, and Farzaneh Badiei discuss The Safe Framework, trust and safety, and the digital services ecosystem.
By Shane Tews | April 30, 2026
Directly through the Surveillance Accountability Act or indirectly through the Common Law Privacy and Consumer Protection Act, there are moves afoot to make the internet a constitutionally protected area.
By Jim Harper | April 29, 2026
Even as China closes the gap with the US in AI development and threatens to exploit our cyber vulnerabilities, it may in turn be unwittingly exposing itself to a liberal…
By Michael M. Rosen | April 29, 2026
If NTIA is looking for high-impact uses of its unexpected surplus, modernizing prison communications infrastructure is an opportunity worth serious consideration.
By Daniel Lyons | April 28, 2026
The problem with the EU and Australian approaches to age-gating is that regulatory responsibility is being shifted onto platform operators. Perhaps it’s time to consider the role of human accountabilities,…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 24, 2026
When AI complements human abilities—particularly by addressing specific barriers—it can unlock human potential.
By Mark Jamison | April 23, 2026
A federal judge’s February ruling blocking Virginia’s enforcement of a statute that imposes a one-hour-per-day default limit for minors using a social media platform correctly puts parents––not the government––back in…
By Clay Calvert | April 22, 2026
As major artificial intelligence breakthroughs arrive on what seems to be a near-weekly basis, the race between the US and China continues to intensify. In this post and the next,…
By Michael M. Rosen | April 21, 2026
Anthropic’s launch of Project Glasswing should be understood less as a product announcement and more as a policy warning.
By Shane Tews | April 20, 2026
Safety by Design is anchored in a world of engineering certainty that defies the complex realities of outcomes coproduced by platforms and their users. Just as with playgrounds, the burden…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 17, 2026
Shane is joined by Marc Boiron and Nicoletta Kolpakov to discuss the road to widespread adoption of cryptocurrency.
By Shane Tews | April 16, 2026
The CFTC should stand down and let these anti-prediction-market states lose directly on the merits.
By Jim Harper | April 15, 2026
Anthropic’s First Amendment retaliation claim against the Department of War and Pete Hegseth spans two lawsuits and features two federal statutes affecting national security supply-chain risk designations. The artificial intelligence…
By Clay Calvert | April 14, 2026