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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming--again--that the latest version won't censor online content. It isn't true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime disguised as a "duty of care," and it will do what ...

We've covered a lot of federal and state proposals that badly miss the mark when attempting to grapple with protecting young people's safety online. These include bills that threaten to cut young people off from vital information, infringe on their . ...

This is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European ...

This week, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee moved forward with a proposal in its budget reconciliation bill to impose a ten-year preemption of state AI regulation--essentially saying only Congress, not state legislatures, can place ...

Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but easily fixed "data broker loophole." This is a very ...

Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you're not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy. When a ...

President Trump's attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there's a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing--one that will take away Americans' right to unencumbered access to our ...

Another federal appeals court has ruled on controversial geofence warrants--sort of. Last week, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sitting en banc issued a single sentence opinion affirming the lower court opinion in United States v. ...

We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet - records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world - and those trails usually are owned by the big corporations behind the ...

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report from the Washington Post. Now, immigration ...