A federal privacy law with meaningful preemption would not eliminate every cost of privacy regulation, but it would make those costs more predictable and more uniform.
By Will Rinehart | June 8, 2026
The domain name registration market has a serious but solvable problem: An estimated one in five sales currently benefit criminal actors. New research puts that reality in sharp focus, and…
By Shane Tews | June 8, 2026
Shane is joined by Aubrey Wilson to discuss how Congress can provide members and staff with the training, guardrails, and practical support they need to use AI responsibly and effectively.
By Shane Tews | June 5, 2026
Lawmakers can break free from their Groundhog Day-like repetitive cycle of statutory futility in regulating social media platforms by adopting their own public-information campaigns and digital literacy programs to help…
By Clay Calvert | June 4, 2026
As we proceed deeper into an AI economy where scarce but expensive human resources are required to buttress against the excesses of (near-costlessly generated) AI spam, such taxes offer an…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 3, 2026
The SECURE Data Act would improperly sweep away state laws and legal approaches that help protect privacy and data security.
By Jim Harper | June 2, 2026
The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission's Draft Measures under the Digital Markets Act now threaten its integrity.
By Shane Tews | June 1, 2026
A week ago, I had the chance to attend Google I/O, which made one thing clear: the next phase of AI isn't about the extraordinary. It's about the everyday.
By John Bailey | May 29, 2026
Chatrie will make it no wiser to rely on legal protections. You must lock up your own stuff.
By Jim Harper | May 28, 2026
Industry must lead in AI cybersecurity. The government must be ready to keep up.
By Shane Tews | May 28, 2026
An April decision by a federal court in Arkansas illustrates why legislation designed to prevent the supposed scourge–moral panic?–of social media addiction is both unconstitutional and unwarranted.
By Clay Calvert | May 27, 2026
Large firms are not slowing AI; naïve regulatory policies do.
By Mark Jamison | May 26, 2026
Shane is joined by Thomas Hazlett to discuss how we can use spectrum more efficiently if we update the regulatory boundaries around their uses and the regulations that bind them.
By Shane Tews | May 21, 2026
Large new electricity demand does not simply appear on the grid. It has to be forecast, studied, planned, financed, physically connected, and then delivered reliably hour after hour.
By Lynne Kiesling | May 19, 2026
As media hoopla over the $6 million March verdict in the K.G.M. social media addiction trial fades, it’s important to reflect on numerous problems with both the outcome and the…
By Clay Calvert | May 19, 2026