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Many state bills do not focus on regulating tech companies’ harmful design practices but instead on blocking kids’ access to social media and other apps unless they get parental consent. This is not an effective way to protect kids online.
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Everyone, including leaders in Congress, agree that we need a federal privacy law in the United States. But a privacy law is only as good as the protections it offers.
Many state bills do not focus on regulating tech companies’ harmful design practices but instead on blocking kids’ access to social media and other apps unless they get parental consent. This is not an effective way to protect kids online.
The government wants to use AI to analyze Americans’ information obtained without a warrant though purchases from data brokers and “incidental” collection from foreign intelligence surveillance. Congress must act now and demand closures these l…
On March 24, California released an updated registry of data brokers—companies in the business of collecting, inferring, aggregating, and selling people’s data
Midterms loom. Congress’s failure to rein in a runaway Executive has not endeared voters. “Shock and awe” tactics do not make for good governance and may cost dearly at the polls. But the White House and its Congressional allie…
At a time when foreign travelers to the United States are already (understandably) nervous about the government's treatment of non-citizens, a new surveillance initiative is likely to raise even more alarms for travelers.
January is always the month of resolutions, and in that vein, perhaps it’s time for chatbot companies to make a new resolution of their own. In December, the technology blog Futurism published an article stating that Grok AI was enabling users to a…
Anthropomorphizing genAI is not only technically inaccurate, but it also exacerbates the harms generative AI causes and allows Big Tech to control the narrative around regulating generative AI tools.
During the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s hearing last Friday on whether Meta should be able to escape a lawsuit alleging it designed its platforms to be addictive to minors, two justices asked Meta’s attorney how Meta’s reading of Sect…