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What exactly is Salt Typhoon?
Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government that compromised large portions of the American telecommunications network have the U.S. government sounding the a…
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Meta To Invest $10B in Exclusive 40,000 km Subsea Cable: Report
Naturally, companies don’t have complete control over service quality given that they rely on telecom companies’ networks to provide their services, however, as…
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Vermont police are using drones more than ever. Here's what that means
Catherine Crump — a University of California, Berkeley clinical law professor who specializes in privacy and surveillance — says that’s because drone technology…
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Here's Where Federal Automated Driving Law Stands Near the End of the Biden Administration
This post offers a primer on federal legislation, regulation, and policy with respect to automated vehicles (AVs) – that is, motor vehicles equipped with an aut…
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Trump could tip the scales in Elon Musk’s secret battle against DOJ
Some of the federal judges who have handled the most recent battles have expressed skepticism over X Corp.’s claims that it is standing on First Amendment princ…
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Bryant Walker Smith examines the state of the self-driving industry
The University of South Carolina professor and autonomous-driving safety expert discusses Tesla’s Cybercab rollout, Waymo’s growing operations, and how self-dri…
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The Brussels Effect: Daphne Keller
Our next guest in this series focuses on the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the risk of prematurely exporting an EU law: Daphne Keller, Director of the Pro…
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Meta, Deutsche Telekom Standoff In The EU Is Something To Keep An Eye On
Net neutrality expert and Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick warns in a blog post that the next step for DT is to specifically punish Meta by slowing a…
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A Deutsche Telekom Shakedown: Will Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp slow to a crawl in Germany as DT tries to get paid twice, and will German regulators have the courage to stop DT’s bullying?
We are about to see whether the largest and most powerful telecom in Europe, Deutsche Telekom (DT), can force websites and apps to pay so-called “network fe…
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Consulation on EU's Future Connectivity Networks: (Again) No Support for Regulatory Intervention
On the other side, just like last time, we only find telecommunications companies and their trade associations. No one else. The “fair share” narrative lost all…
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Lessons from the Israel pager attack
Electronic pagers across Lebanon exploded simultaneously on Sept. 17, 2024, killing 12 and wounding more than 2,700. The following day, another wave of expl…
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Regulating platform risk and design: ChatGPT says the quiet part out loud
Platform laws too often use terms like "design" or "risk mitigation” as euphemisms for mandates that target legally protected expression. When asked GPT about them, its answers said that quiet part out loud.