At the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent workshop, The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families, panelists raised important questions about children’s online safety but offered few practical, evidence-based solutions. Instead, they promoted policies, such as the App Store Accountability Act and similar age verification [...]
In February 2025, it was reported that the United Kingdom (UK) Office of the Home Secretary served Apple with a technical capability notice (TCN), a secret legal order demanding that the company build a backdoor that enables access to content Apple users have uploaded to the cloud. The UK [...]
Shortly after the 2024 election, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, called to eliminate the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA), the country’s primary federal cybersecurity agency, over concerns about online censorship. However, CISA has several critical cybersecurity functions [...]
In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a doctor in New York for mailing abortion medication to a pregnant woman in Texas. While the doctor is protected under New York’s shield law, which shields healthcare providers who prescribe and mail abortion medications to patients located in states [...]
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation took its latest privacy steps with a July 11 hearing, “The Need to Protect Americans’ Privacy and the AI Accelerant.” Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association, testified alongside Dr. Ryan Calo, professor at the University of Washington School [...]