Instagram’s unwillingness to do what is right is a clarion call for regulation: The FDA must assert its codified right to regulate the algorithm powering the drug of Instagram.
Biden’s new FTC nominee is a digital privacy advocate critical of Big Tech
President Biden made his latest nomination to the Federal Trade Commission this week, tapping digital privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to join the agency as it takes a hard look at the tech industry. Bedoya is the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown’s law school and previously served as chief counsel […]
Biden To Tap Privacy Hawk For FTC Post
President Biden will nominate Georgetown University law professor Alvaro Bedoya to be a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, people familiar with the matter told Axios. From a report: Bedoya, founding director of the Center on Priva…
Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11’s Legacy: Mass Surveillance
“After 9/11, I took the threat of terrorism seriously, still do,” U.S. Senator Ron Wyden tells Fast Company. “But also I was concerned about how the new surveillance authorities might be abused…”
From Fast Company’s report:
After the 9/11 attacks…
What’s happening in venture law in 2021?
The venture world is growing faster than ever, with more funding rounds, bigger funding rounds, and higher valuations than pretty much any point in history. That’s led to an exponential growth in the number of unicorns walking around, and has also forced regulators and venture law researchers to confront a slew of challenging problems. The […]
The legal world needs to shed its ‘unicorniphobia’
As policymakers and scholars work out how securities regulation can be used to address climate change, they should not overlook the potentially important role unicorn regulation can play.
農水省が月面基地での食料自給を目指すプロジェクトの公募を開始
農林水産省は6日、アルテミス計画に関連して、月面基地での食料の自給を目的とした戦略プロジェクトの実施研究機関等の公募を開始した。この戦略プロジェクトは、月面基地において食料を安定的に確保しつつ高い生活の質（QOL）を実現することが目的となっている（農林水産省、ITmedia）。
このために必要な食料生産から廃棄物の処理まで可能なシステムの開発および、そうした技術を地上で検証できるシステムの開発を求めているとされる。食料生産に関しては閉鎖空間での栽培技術や微細藻類の人工培養、培養肉を用いた食料技術…
What China’s new data privacy law means for US tech firms
Modeled after the EU’s GDPR, China’s PIPL imposes protections and restrictions on data collection and transfer that companies both inside and outside of China will need to address.
Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy
The Biden administration on Wednesday released a blueprint for producing almost half of the nation’s electricity from the sun by 2050 — something that would require the country to double the amount of solar energy installed every year over the next fo…
The 4 things needed to reach Biden’s ambitious 2050 solar goal
A report on the future of solar energy from the Department of Energy paints a sunny picture, if you will, of the next three decades, at the end of which nearly half the country’s energy will be provided by the sun. But for that to happen, big pushes need to happen along four major lines: […]