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Technological Regulation

48 published works

  1. The Right Coast

    Facebook Whistleblower s Testimony Builds Momentum for Tougher Tech Laws – WSJ

    By Thomas A. Smith

    WASHINGTON Facebook Inc. FB 2.06% whistleblower Frances Haugen testified to Congress Tuesday on internal documents showing harms from the company s products from teenagers mental-health problems to poisoned political debate…

  2. Canadian Lawyer Mag

    The Smith Column – Uneasy lies the head that wears the techno-crown

    By Canadian Lawyer Mag

    Maybe Elon Musk has the right idea about crazy corporate titles

  3. Evisort

    What Does the Biden Privacy and Antitrust Agenda Mean for Smaller Tech Companies?

    By Sara Goulder

    There has been a rise in the number and impact of data breaches in recent years as more commerce moves online and a higher number of businesses collect and store…

  4. Privacy World

    BREAKING NEWS: President Biden Taps Lina Khan for Federal Trade Commission

    By Amy Doolittle, Kristin Bryan

    CPW has previously reported on the anticipated impact of a Biden presidency on data privacy and data privacy litigation.  In an update to that prior analysis, President Biden has reportedly…

  5. Mike McBride Online

    The Insanity of Forcing Tech Companies to Pay For Linking to News

    By Mike McBride

    I'm sure many of you have already seen the ongoing battle between Facebook, and Google, and the Australian government. The government, mostly at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, is about…

  6. Health Law Prof Blog

    COVID-19 and Contact Tracing: A Study in Regulation by Technology

    By Katharine Van Tassel

    Justine Pila (University of Oxford), COVID-19 and Contact Tracing: A Study in Regulation by Technology, Eur. J. L. & Tech. (2020):A common theme of regulatory responses to COVID-19 has been…

  7. The Right Coast

    Crazy 2020 Is Dead! Long Live Crazier 2021! – American Greatness

    By Thomas A. Smith

    A day after Michelle Obama s call, Trump coincidentally was indeed banned from Twitter for life, along with a number of conservatives, and indefinitely canceled from Facebook. Trump followers fleeing…

  8. The Right Coast

    Lindsey Graham is ‘more determined than ever’ to strip tech companies of legal protections after Twitter bans Trump – TheBlaze

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that he was "more determined than ever" to strip tech and social media companies of legal protections under Section 230 after the…

  9. Global Policy Watch

    Looking Ahead on Tech and Intellectual Property Issues

    By Bill Wichterman, Holly Fechner

    Technology policy is a growing issue for the Congress, especially since it is to the economy and to our national security what oil was 20 years. Congress has a love-hate…

  10. The Right Coast

    By censoring The Post, Big Tech is begging for big-time reform

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Think-tanker Henry Olsen has written extensively about the American right s decades-long malady of free-market fundamentalism the liberalized notion that private-sector action is per se good and public-sector action per…