In "Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement," law and computer science scholars from across the country will identify and…
Focus Tag: Policy
Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As public urgency swells around online influence operations, professionals from sectors including academia, private industry, and the nonprofit space have…
Can regulation solve the problem of misinformation? | Information Futures Lab, Brown University
Is there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU…
Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell
Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to…
FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data…
Reconsidering the Fight Against Disinformation | Tech Policy Press
On May 25th, 2022 in Paris, a group of notable media and communications scholars met at Sciences Po for a…
TechTank: How Does the Internet Facilitate Worsening Gun Violence? | Lawfare
Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed and 1,391 injured through…
The book ban movement has a chilling new tactic: harass teachers on social media | MIT Technology Review
“This is a movement that was formed online, so it’s not so much that these activists are moving online so…
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World | Lawfare
The year is 2023. It’s been one year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson…
India considering appeals panel with power to reverse Facebook, Twitter and YouTube content moderation decisions | TechCrunch
India is proposing to create an appeals panel with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media…