Tim Bernard is reading a selection of the Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) systemic risk assessments released in late November 2024.

Dunstan Allison-Hope & Jason Pielemeier explain how Europe's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) applies to tech.

Access Now's Alejandro Mayoral Baños and Article 19's Quinn McKew explain their decision not to attend the Internet Governance Forum in Riyadh.

Questions remain about whether the Institute will prioritize the most significant safety risks, writes CIGI's Matthew da Mota.

WITNESS executive director Sam Gregory says there are fundamental gaps in access to detection tools that disadvantage journalists and civil society.

NTIA is seeking public input on ethical guidelines for researching online data or "pervasive data."

Sandra González-Bailón and David Lazer, contemplating results of a recent study on election misinformation, say Big Tech's power must be checked.

Researchers will have a chance to get meaningful data of the most precious kind: unaggregated, non-public platform data, writes Luca Belli.

Mark Scott says going forward there are ways to improve these lengthy, often unwieldy documents.

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Atieh Razavi Yekta is a sessional lecturer and researcher at the University of British Columbia.

Rather than modernizing interception laws, India’s new framework puts citizens’ privacy and digital rights at risk, write Jyoti Panday and Saumya Jain.

Susie Alegre is the author of “Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI," published by Atlantic Books in September 2024.

404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia concluded that legislation requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok “survive[s] constitutional scrutiny.”

Stephen Wyber sets out 12 questions raised in the written answers and hearings for 9 different potential members of the Commission.

New research shows that social media users share information they know to be false, motivated to signal political loyalty. Prithvi Iyer considers the findings.

What do figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Joel Pollak and Patrick Soon-Shiong have in common? They are public figures of considerable power and influence in the US – who all spent some...

João C. Magalhães says the creation of X and Musk’s radicalization exposed an unprecedented–but potentially replicable–politicization of platform power.

Petra Molnar is the author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Daniel Stone writes that without the public pushing for action, tech reform stalls, gets diluted, or stays symbolic.

Megan Kirkwood provides a detailed roundup of the Digital Markets Act's progress.

The convergence of Trump and Musk’s political power with ownership of social media platforms raises urgent questions, writes Philip M. Napoli.

Monique Priestley is a Vermont State Representative for the Orange 2 District.

Brandie Nonnecke writes that the strides made under the Biden administration, emphasizing responsible AI governance and public benefit, may wane.

A roundup of the most important US tech policy developments in the federal government, the courts, and beyond from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press.

Taylor Owen writes that the merger of state and tech power is a fundamental challenge to democratic governance in the digital age.

Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

When it comes to the design and presentation of privacy information, Meta might just win the prize for “worst in show,” writes Justin Sherman.

Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School at Duke University.

Data & Society policy director Brian Chen writes that President-elect Trump will inherit a techno-security architecture primed to militarize new technologies.

Digital ads erode privacy and hurt publishers. DOJ’s antitrust suit exemplifies Google’s role in creating and sustaining these issues, writes Lisa Macpherson.

By seeing disinformation as a commodity, we can better address the underlying motivations of its producers, distributors, and consumers, writes Etienne Koeppel.

Just because tech platforms managed to stay above the political fray doesn’t mean all went smoothly, writes Issie Lapowsky.

Tech Policy Press Fellow Amber Sinha chronicles digital policymaking in India during the last 10 years of the Narendra Modi-led government.

The present moment may put severe constraints on the imaginations of pro-democracy reformers, writes Dean Jackson.