If ever a First Amendment challenge to a statute constraining minors’ access to social media platforms was inevitable, it’s surely the one filed in late October by trade associations Computer and…
By Clay Calvert | December 11, 2024
In a remarkable shift that underscores the critical state of digital privacy, US officials are now actively encouraging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps for their communications. This recommendation comes…
By Shane Tews | December 11, 2024
The Biden administration has launched a crash effort to push out as much of the $39 billion in semiconductor manufacturing funds—appropriated under the CHIPS and Science Act—as possible before it leaves office.…
By Claude Barfield | December 10, 2024
There’s an image that haunts me, in a good way, because it visualizes a tendency that I want to avoid. It comes from a group of researchers at the University of…
By Will Rinehart | December 9, 2024
“Tech” could push our society in two different directions in the forthcoming Trump administration. They could both be called the Singaporean model. But one could be an embrace of Singapore’s…
By Jim Harper | December 9, 2024
Decades into the Information Age, privacy continues to bedevil policymakers and businesses. Does treating personal information as common-law property offer a framework for thinking about privacy protection and maximizing consumer…
By Jim Harper | December 9, 2024
In the past couple of weeks I’ve read two things I want to recommend that are actually deeply related. The first is Brian Potter’s excellent history of technology analysis of…
By Lynne Kiesling | December 6, 2024
Yesterday, The Washington Post published what can only be described as a hit piece on the nominee for Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. The Post took issue with Wright’s claim that: “[R]eports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | December 6, 2024
President-elect Trump faces a pivotal choice: continue the Biden administration’s ill-advised antitrust crusade against America’s leading tech companies, or chart a more balanced course that lets customer choice foster invention…
By Mark Jamison | December 6, 2024
Blair Levin is one of telecommunications policy’s most respected elder statesmen. He served as chief of staff to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Reed Hundt, executive director of the National…
By Daniel Lyons | December 5, 2024
As India’s economic landscape evolves amid population growth, crafting regulations that foster progress is critical. But how can India leverage its advanced digital infrastructure and young workforce to drive innovation…
By Shane Tews | December 5, 2024
Can treating information as a form of property empower people to protect privacy using their property rights? Consider the following two quotes: Consumers and businesses—each in their way and for…
By Jim Harper | December 4, 2024
Leading up to the presidential election, it was a spectator sport to watch media coverage trigger Donald Trump, provoking him to lash out in ways pandering to his political base.…
By Clay Calvert | December 3, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government made good on his September 10 threat to make Australia the first country to legislatively enforce a minimum age for social media access. In November,…
By Bronwyn Howell | December 3, 2024
On Election Day, voters delivered at least one clear message: Remove the policy roadblocks standing in the way of greater fossil energy production, American oil and natural gas in particular.…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 3, 2024