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Category: Technology and Cybersecurity

Articles about innovation and tech regulation.

May 4, 2020 Education / Health Care / On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

How the ‘homework gap’ leaves students behind during the COVID-19 pandemic

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues its spread across the country, nearly 90 percent of the nation’s 50.8 million public school students have seen an early end to their school year—or, at least, their school building. As of April 23, 41 states, the District of Columbia,

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March 13, 2020 Health Care / On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

Decoding discrimination: unpacking the growing impact of algorithmic bias

Human intelligence is no longer sufficient for processing the growing demand for data-driven decisions, so industry leaders across the private and public sectors hope artificial intelligence (AI) can supplement. Not only can AI streamline decision making and process large quantities of information quickly, but the

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January 17, 2020 Elections / Technology and Cybersecurity

The fight over campaign advertising regulation

Twitter’s new policy and regulations on political campaign advertising have sparked a debate over the boundaries of regulation. The policy applies specifically to Twitter’s paid advertising products and “globally prohibits the promotion of political content.” Political content, in this case, includes content that references a

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March 13, 2019 Advocacy and Best Practices / Technology and Cybersecurity

Four Takeaways from the Privacy Movement

Will Congress take legislative action on consumer privacy this year? Some members of Congress say that it’s time, including Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6), the new chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. During an April 2018 committee hearing, Pallone stated that “the current

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January 14, 2019 On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

How Will Small Cell Regulations Impact 5G Deployment?

Cell phones have come a long way over the past 35 years. America’s first commercial mobile phone, the 1983 Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was over a foot long, cost $4,000, and only made calls over first-generation (1G) analog wireless networks. Today, consumers can use their phones

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October 29, 2018 On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

Robocalls: the FCC’s top consumer protection priority

Since taking office in January 2017, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has stated multiple times that combating illegal robocalls would be the FCC’s top consumer protection priority. In a blog post last year, Pai described common nuisances of robocalls, noting that “we’ve all been there.” A

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May 3, 2018 On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

Is the US election system ready for another round of hacking?

Even if voting machines never go online, digital threats to the US political system loom over this year’s midterm elections and, presumably, every election to come. A full year after US intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that President Vladimir Putin directed a Russian operation to interfere

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March 1, 2018 Advocacy and Best Practices / Elections / On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

We’re Woefully Unprepared to Deal with Campaign Finance in the Digital Age

Campaign finance has received more than its usual attention recently with the revelation that the Russian government spent at least $100,000 on political Facebook ads surrounding the 2016 election. This episode highlights just how unprepared we are to regulate campaign finance in the digital age.

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January 19, 2018 On the Issues / Technology and Cybersecurity

Blockchain: Solving the Internet’s Value Problem

The problem: eating my cake and having it too The internet is great at transferring information, but much less so at transferring value. This is because when information is sent through the internet, such as in an email, it is not really transferred at all—it’s

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