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Oct 7, 2022

Hey everybody, I’m Joe Miller and here’s what’s going on in the world of tech law & policy this week.



 White House Proposes Tech ‘Bill of Rights’

 

The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy proposed a new Tech ‘Bill of Rights’ Friday targeting harms caused by artificial intelligence...


Oct 3, 2022

The major societal challenge posed by artificial intelligence (AI) is that its algorithms are often trained on biased data. This fundamental problem has enormous implications in our criminal justice system, workplaces, schools, healthcare industry, and housing sector. The persistence of racism, sexism, ableism, and...


Sep 30, 2022

Tech sector asks Fifth Circuit to stop Texas’s social media law from taking effect

 

The State of Texas’s social media law which stops tech companies from taking down hate speech and misleading information has reached the Fifth Circuit in a motion that this organization – WashingTech – has participated...


Sep 26, 2022

Mark Brennan: Sephora (Privacy Case Study)

In late August, the California Attorney General’s office issued its first public, monetary penalty against cosmetics giant Sephora, for violating the California Privacy and Protection Act (CCPA), which went into effect in 2018 and is one of several state-level privacy laws


Sep 23, 2022

Hey everybody, I’m Joe Miller and here’s what’s going on in the world of tech law & policy. 

 

ADL Report: Spotify has a white supremacist problem

References to Hitler, Pepe the Frog, Tucker Carlson talking about the “great replacement” anti-immigration theory — it looks like songs that contain them...