Month: February 2023

Regulatory Comment: FCC Lacks Statutory Authority to Expand Data Breach Notification Standards to “Inadvertent Breaches”

February 28, 2023 | Jonathon Hauenschild

Data breach notification standards are important tools to protect cybersecurity. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), though, lacks congressional authority to expand its current notification regime to include “accidental” or “inadvertent breaches.” In a recent comment filed with the FCC, I discussed the need to ensure that consumers are notified when bad actors intentionally access confidential

February 28, 2023 | Jonathon Hauenschild

When deploying broadband infrastructure, service providers should not discriminate against potential customers on the basis of income level, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. In a recent comment filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), I discussed the best ways for the FCC to realize its goal of closing the digital divide while preventing discrimination.

February 20, 2023 | Lars Schönander

This piece was originally published in American Affairs. Between 2017 and 2018, a single Chinese billionaire bought over 140,000 acres of land next to an American military base in southern Texas, and the government did not even know how many LLCs were initially involved in buying the land. It was not even the federal government that

February 15, 2023 | Alex Dubin

This piece was originally published in the National Interest. The liftoff of Artemis 1 last November launched a new era in space, as the United States prepares to send humans beyond low-Earth orbit and back to the Moon for the first time in half a century. The Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule finally made their debut

February 15, 2023 | Brandon Detweiler

This piece was originally published in reimaginED. In 2023, Iowa and Utah have already enacted new education savings account programs that will help thousands of families take control of their children’s education. These states follow Arizona and West Virginia in enacting broadly available ESA programs in recent years. There’s more to come. According to EdChoice, lawmakers in

February 14, 2023 | Richard Reisman

This piece was originally published in Tech Policy Press. Managing society’s problems related to how (and by whom) social media news feeds are composed is rapidly reducing to the absurd. Elon Musk’s capricious management of Twitter highlights many of the core elements of the presenting problems – while related issues have risen to the Supreme Court.

February 14, 2023 | Alex Dubin

The breathtaking launch of Artemis 1 ushered in a new era of American-led human space exploration. The nearly month-long mission to the Moon tested a new heavy-lift rocket (Space Launch System, or SLS) and capsule (Orion), and its success is a triumph for NASA and its partners. The mission comes 11 years after the retirement

February 8, 2023 | Zach Graves

This piece was originally published in Tech Policy Press. In the last year, we’ve seen huge improvements in the quality and range of generative AI tools—including voice-to-text applications like OpenAI’s Whisper, text-to-voice generators like Murf, text-to-image models like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-3, and others. Unlike the clunky AI tools of the past (sorry, Clippy), this suite of

February 8, 2023 | Luke Hogg

This piece was originally published in the Deseret News. House Republicans had a rough start to the new year, with internal squabbles delaying the instatement of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Now, Republicans have to find a rallying point — otherwise, they risk wasting the next two years. Thankfully, one proposal provides a clear path toward

February 7, 2023 | Luke Hogg

Click here to download the full report in PDF format. Executive Summary Our current online ecosystem is dominated by targeted advertisements. Companies collect troves of information about their users and use that information to monetize otherwise-free services, such as social media platforms and search engines. The inescapability of this system has led policymakers to question how the

February 2, 2023 | Luke Hogg

Today, Zach Graves, Executive Director of Lincoln Network, and Matt Lira, former Special Assistant to the President for Innovation Policy, sent a letter to Speaker McCarthy, urging him to modernize the House of Representatives. The text of the letter reads: Dear Speaker McCarthy: Congratulations on your election as Speaker of the House of Representatives. As

February 1, 2023 | Deepesh Chaudhari

Global Internet freedom has declined for the 12th year in a row, according to the latest report from Freedom House. Russia has increased its crackdown on Internet freedom since the start of the war in Ukraine, while the Chinese Communist Party remains the world leader in digital authoritarianism, mandating “new rules that require platforms to