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Dutch resistance to Amazon Web Services highlights global risks of hyperscaler cloud dominance, writes Dr. Corinne Cath. This case reveals a growing friction between the gravitational pull of the cloud and the need to preserve the public interest in digital infrastructure decisions, she writes.

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Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals. So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

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Trump has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal grants to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants. The move leaves the Campaign Against Hunger — which each year serves 17 million meals to over 1.5 million New Yorkers, including thousands of new arrivals — in a lurch.

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NEW: The CFPB has been gutted. More than 1,400 workers received RIF notices this afternoon, agency sources tell me. Around 200 employees are left. www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

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useful breakdown of the judge's ruling in the google ad monopoly case, by some guy at tech policy press

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For the second time in under a year, a federal judge found Google has an illegal monopoly, this time over digital advertising technology. Cristiano Lima-Strong highlights key excerpts from the latest landmark antitrust ruling. www.techpolicy.press/key-excerpts...

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"Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, adding to legal troubles that could reshape the $1.88 trillion company and alter its power over the internet." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

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AI agents are being deployed faster than developers can answer critical questions about them—that needs to change, writes CDT's Ruchika Joshi. The public needs far more information to meaningfully evaluate whether, when, and how to use AI agents, and what safeguards will be needed to manage risks.

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"A distant planet’s atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a report published Wednesday that analyzed observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope."

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Joanna Wiaterek and Jan Pieter Snoeij write that AI could entrench global inequalities if left unchecked, and explore how to shift benefit-sharing toward equity—not just more power for the few. www.techpolicy.press/the-politics...

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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

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SCOOP: sources tell me that the State Dept plans to eliminate its only office to counter foreign disinformation, as soon as today, delivering a win to foreign governments like Russia, Iran, and China—and the office's mostly conservative critics. www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

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Last month, a group of 200+ researchers signed a letter “Affirming the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI.” It comes at a time when the Trump admin is rolling back AI policies and threatening research. To learn more about their goals, I spoke to three of the letter's signatories.

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AI expands computing beyond routine, pre-programmed tasks. But when driven solely by brute capitalist control, these advances raise serious concerns about inequality, wealth distribution, surveillance, and un- and under-employment driven by automation, writes Scott Timcke.

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Neurotechnology is advancing rapidly. José M. Muñoz and José Ángel Marinaro say there is an urgent need to develop procedural mechanisms to effectively protect and enforce fundamental rights in situations where abuse is committed through the use of neurotech.

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Great piece by @victorpickard.bsky.social on the need to protect public media in the US. Tagging @publicmedia.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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🚨NEW: Trump ordered staffers to kill Elon Musk’s planned top-secret Pentagon briefing on China after word of it leaked, Axios has learned. "What the f**k is Elon doing there? Make sure he doesn't go," Trump said, a top official recalled. www.axios.com/2025/04/16/t...

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How many of these driven by social media surveillance? wjla.com/news/local/v...

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WJLA - Trump administration revokes visas of 15 George Mason University students, a trend that has impacted students at other schools in the DC region as federal officials simultaneously go after those who they claim took part in campus protests in recent years. https://wjla.com/news/local/trump-adm

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Good read.

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

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Safety first, as long as it's a competitive advantage techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/o...

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For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I wrote about some of the challenges survivors trying to use the TAKE IT DOWN Act could face if it passes — and how state solutions could fill those gaps. www.techpolicy.press/the-take-it-...

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"Cristiano Lima-Strong, associate editor at Tech Policy Press, offers analysis of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta, where they will argue that the social media giant maintained a monopoly after it bought Instagram and WhatsApp." www.wnyc.org/story/metas-...

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Balico withdraws data center proposal for Pittsylvania after months of resident pushback and vote postponements cardinalnews.org/2025/04/14/b...

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We released a letter with 16 of our closest friends telling the Trump Administration: Transparency is essential for public trust. It is imperative you maintain the federal agency AI use cases inventories at the current level of detail. Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/

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NEW: A leaked copy of Scale AI's internal Gen AI Ops Hub details what it's working on for Big Tech Clients. It appears Meta is still developing AI characters, Google is focused of human reasoning and safeguarding the Polish elections from misinfo. www.inc.com/sam-blum/lea...

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US states have stepped up to regulate consumer-facing online services where the federal government has been utterly silent, writes Fordham professor of law Olivier Sylvain. The laws enacted can be lumped into three categories: content moderation, data protection, and child online safety laws.

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Tech Policy Press Fellow Jasmine Mithani explores the TAKE IT DOWN ACT’s enforcement challenges in light of actions taken by the Trump Administration at the FTC and DOJ. www.techpolicy.press/the-take-it-...

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The Trump administration’s concerns over EU and UK regulation of social media ring hollow given the administration’s hostility to virtually any foreign regulation of US digital industries and its direct crackdown on dissenting expression at home, writes Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat.

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My latest piece is out at @techpolicypress.bsky.social Since May 2023, X has complied with Turkey's censorship demands. Musk is now starting to challenge some bans—but it’s too little, too late, and highly selective. And it's selective approach won't help. www.techpolicy.press/x-selective-...

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"It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending."

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"The push is more extensive than administration officials have made public, staffers across multiple federal agencies said, mostly speaking on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the policies publicly." wapo.st/44u84kr

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Here we go. Support your local public radio station www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

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"The prospect of replacing federal workers who handle critical tasks—ones that could result in life-and-death scenarios for hundreds of millions of people—with automated systems that can’t even perform basic speech-to-text transcription without making up large swaths of text, is catastrophic."

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In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...

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As the FTC-Meta trial kicks off, tech trade group NetChoice is claiming the agency "approved" Facebook’s Instagram & WhatsApp deals in 2012 & 2014 This is false & misleading. The FTC declined to intervene, but that's not the same as approval See the FTC's letter to FB from '12:

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Revolutionary technologies introduce countless social transformations, shifting norms and ambitions with open-ended consequences. One should not assume that democracy automatically thrives in or survives these changes, writes Scott Timcke. www.techpolicy.press/ai-inequalit...

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Referencing Tamar Mitts’ recently published Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments, and international regulatory regimes over the past decade.

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Lawsuits pending against Meta in Nairobi represent an unusual opportunity to consider the obligations powerful technology companies have to the populations that make their mighty profits possible, writes Paul M. Barrett from the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern School of Business.

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"To diversify, Geo Group turned to digital surveillance. In 2011, the firm paid $415 million for Behavioral Interventions, a Colorado company founded in the 1970s to track cattle and which had expanded to monitoring parolees."

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I listened to this today. It was excellent. The FTC has a case against Meta, but it certainly isn't a slam dunk. Case starts tomorrow.

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The President openly calls for his loyalist apparatchik at the FCC to use state power to punish media for critical coverage

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On Monday, the FTC will kick off its antitrust trial against Meta. Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Cristiano Lima-Strong discussed the case against the social media giant with two competition law experts who both served in government: William (Bill) Kovacic and Gene Kimmelman.

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