The U.K. government has announced a consultation on plans to shake up the national data protection regime, as it looks at how to diverge from European Union rules following Brexit. It’s also a year since the U.K. published a national data strategy in which said it wanted pandemic levels of data sharing to become Britain’s […]
LA police ask people they stop for their Facebook and Twitter account info
Data is fed into Palantir and helps enable “large-scale monitoring.”
Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says
California wants to clear up confusion about which plastics can be recycled.
“Failure is not a crime,” Theranos founder’s lawyers tell jury
Prosecutors, defense clash during opening arguments in Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal case.
Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers
SpaceX insults competitors and acts like “rules are for other people,” Amazon says.
UK offers cash for CSAM detection tech targeted at E2E encryption
The U.K. government is preparing to spend over half a million dollars to encourage the development of detection technologies for child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) that can be bolted on to end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms to scan for the illegal material, as part of its ongoing policy push around internet and child safety. In a […]
SEC threatens to sue Coinbase over lending product
Cryptocurrency exchange’s chief accuses US regulator of “sketchy behavior.”
We must subsidize and regulate space exploration
Space can and should be about much more than giving the 1% another Instagrammable moment and increasing the wealth of the billionaires who provide the service.
The next Theranos should be shortable
Matthew Wansley Contributor Matthew Wansley is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law in New York A jury will soon decide whether former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of a federal crime. But the deeper public policy questions that Theranos raised remain unanswered. How did a startup built on a technology that […]
Even Epik says the Texas abortion “whistleblower” site violates its rules
Epik says “collecting anonymous tips” about abortions violates its terms of use.