Articles about innovation and tech regulation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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