ACT at the FTC: Why Blanket Age Verification Mandates Miss the Mark

As policymakers consider new online safety proposals, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently convened a workshop to examine the evolving landscape of age verification, estimation, and assurance tools, legislative proposals centered around their use, and the interplay between emerging age authentication frameworks and existing regulations, such as [...]

By |2026-04-07T15:28:06-04:00March 31st, 2026|Blog, Events, Privacy, United States|

California’s Merger Proposals Could Set Back the Startup Economy by a Generation

  On March 20, the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) held a meeting to discuss draft proposals that would fundamentally reshape the state's approach to mergers and acquisitions. The proposals aim to establish a California-specific antitrust regime that departs from established federal law, an approach the proposal's own authors described [...]

By |2026-03-31T11:27:04-04:00March 31st, 2026|Artificial Intelligence/AI, Blog, Competition|

Empowering Europe’s Innovators Through the 28th Regime and the European Innovation Act

  EU ACTivists for Change: Members join forces to make the Single Market work for startups Across Europe, startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are building world-class products, but their growth path is still more complicated than it should be. EU startups face 27 different systems for incorporation, [...]

AI, Standards, and the Future of Green Tech Investment

  Mike Griffin doesn’t do hype cycles. He’s a UK-based developer with decades of experience working across EU and UK innovation and research programs. He’s spent enough time in the ecosystem to recognise the difference between rules that enable trust and scale and those that create confusion. As the founder [...]

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