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Does Acting Like Good Guys Actually Make Anthropic Good Guys? - FOSS Force Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world -- or buying goodwill?

Does Acting Like Good Guys Actually Make Anthropic Good Guys?
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#AI #TechPolicy #OpenSource

7/7 ACM's Europe TPC brings independent technical expertise to EU AI governance. Full analysis → shorturl.at/I80R9 #EUAIAct #TechPolicy #AIRegulation

Consultation on Regulation on the EU AI Act (EU) 2024/1689 Europe TPC supports the European Commission's intent to refine the regulatory framework to ensure legal certainty and safety. To help bridge the gap between legislative intent and technical…

7/7 Full ACM Europe TPC analysis → [https://shorturl.at/I80R9 ] Technical expertise for sound #EUAIAct governance. #TechPolicy #AIRegulation

MassNotify case settled:
Auto-install claims
User data concerns
Now → full data deletion + 5-year restriction
Privacy vs public health tech is far from resolved.
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IA Policial: La RCMP empieza a usar IA para redactar informes

IA en seguridad pública: Oficiales de la RCMP usan inteligencia artificial para agilizar el papeleo policial, prometiendo más tiempo de patrullaje real. 🚔🦾 #PublicSafety #TechPolicy #GadgetsTimesRD

"City grandee" Ian Cheshire has been announced as the next chair of Ofcom www.gov.uk/government/n...

In fairness, probably the safest choice given that the other short-listed candidates were a Tory MP and Margaret Hodge

#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

The New Dawn of Piracy - 0xBrewEntropy How streaming killed what streaming was supposed to fix.

Piracy wasn’t defeated. It was paused. Then streaming rebuilt the incentives: price stacking, fragmentation, disappearing libraries, ad creep.

“The New Dawn of Piracy”

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#Streaming #Piracy #DigitalRights #TechPolicy

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Vannevar Bush's "Science: The Endless Frontier" shaped NSF's mission for years — and for good reason. USTPC's response to NSF's draft 2026–2030 plan makes the case that abandoning that vision for short-term applied gains sacrifice America's long-term leadership. #TechPolicy #NSF
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Tech Law Changes May Roll Back Rights for AI Growth Proposed efforts to simplify tech laws may weaken privacy and digital rights, prioritizing AI development over individual protections.

“Simplifying” tech laws sounds harmless… until rights start disappearing. ⚖️🤖

In the age of AI, less regulation doesn’t always mean more freedom—it can mean less protection.

#Brewminate #AI #TechPolicy

Digital and Data Benefits framework www.gov.uk/government/p... developed by economists in GDS

This lost me pretty early on – any common framework for "digital" and "data" is bound to be reductive – but your mileage may vary

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy

A survivor of such intimate image abuse, referred to as Jane (not her real name), and The End Violence Against Women Coalition ("EVAW") have instructed solicitors Leigh Day and sent a Pre-Action Protocol letter to Ofcom threatening to bring a judicial review, accusing it of turning a blind eye to the abuse that Jane and countless other women and girls have suffered at the hands of such "collector culture" image-sharing forums. Intimate images of women and girls are posted to these forums and categorised by area as specific as their town, village or university halls of residence, putting victims at serious risk of physical harm offline in the real world, such as stalking, as well as online.

Ofcom faces judicial review over alleged failure to act on intimate image abuse www.mishcon.com/news/ofcom-f...

Just a pre-action protocol letter at this point

#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

Democrats See Georgia's Failure to Curb Data Centers as an Electoral Gift Efforts to pass stricter regulations or limit tax breaks stalled before lawmakers ended their annual session Thursday.

Democrats See Georgia's Failure to Curb Data Centers as an Electoral Gift
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#DataCenters #TechPolicy #USPolitics

Sam Altman Publishes Blueprint for How Government Should Regulate His AI Technology OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a detailed blueprint outlining how government should tax, regulate, and redistribute wealth from AI superintelligence technology he's developing.

Four angles. One story. More at gettheflies.com/sam-altman-publishes-blu...

#TheFlies #AI #OpenAI #TechPolicy

Post from EkasCloud Online Courses - YouTube AI Governance in 2026: Can We Control What We Create? #AIGovernance #ArtificialIntelligence #EthicalAI #FutureTech #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #ResponsibleAI #...

AI Governance in 2026: Can We Control What We Create?
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#AIGovernance #ArtificialIntelligence #EthicalAI #FutureTech #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #ResponsibleAI #DigitalEthics #Innovation #TechTrends #Ekascloud #FutureInTech 🤖⚖️🚀

Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law
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#RightToRepair #TechPolicy #ConsumerRights #Hardware

Britain woos Anthropic expansion after US defence clash: Report Britain is trying to tempt Anthropic to expand its presence in the country, as it seeks to capitalise on a fight between the maker of artificial intelligence app Claude and the US Defense Department, ...

Britain is courting Anthropic after its Pentagon clash, signaling a shift in where AI firms may align. The race for AI leadership is turning geopolitical.
#AI #UK #TechPolicy @volteuropa.org @ec.europa.eu

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Taken together, Ofcom and the Online Safety Act provide a rare example of how the UK could be genuinely inspirational. The existential question for liberal democracies now is whether they can tame tech giants. We know it can be done by authoritarian regimes – as China demonstrates. Democracies, though, are struggling. Any move to challenge tech monopolies involves wading through legal treacle for years, with no guarantee of success.

Tech columnist John Naughton says the position of new Ofcom chair "appears to have gone to" businessman Ian Cheshire (rather than Margaret Hodge, the lulz candidate)

Naughton's usual bad take, in the Tortoise Observer observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

The Google Search Remedies Are Already Failing: How Weak Antitrust Relief Handed Google an AI Advantage Apple and Google recently announced a multiyear, $20 billion partnership to integrate Google’s Gemini technology into Apple's own AI features.

The Google Search Remedies Are Already Failing: How Weak Antitrust Relief Handed Google an AI Advantage - Public Knowledge
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#Antitrust #Google #AI #TechPolicy

Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law #Technology #Business #Other #RightToRepair #TechPolicy #ConsumerRights

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El 'Kill Switch' de la IA: ¿Es necesaria una regulación de emergencia?

Seguridad en IA: Se reabre el debate sobre el 'Kill Switch' obligatorio. ¿Deben los CEOs tener el poder de desconectar instantáneamente a sus agentes autónomos? 🛑🦾 #AIEthics #TechPolicy #GadgetsTimesRD

Anthropic launches AnthroPAC to influence AI policy, supporting bipartisan candidates in upcoming midterms. #AI #TechPolicy #AnthroPAC Link: thedailytechfeed.com/anthropic-la...

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Meta's $2B lobbying op, explained in 3 acts:

1 Dark money nonprofits (DCA) testify in 45 states.

2 Push for OS APIs that enable persistent ID tracking.

3 Exempt Meta's platforms while hobbling Apple/Google.

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#LongRead #TechPolicy #NoAgeVerification #NoKOSA

Understanding Schelling's Nuclear Paradigms with Francis J. Gavin - Texas National Security Review Francis J. Gavin explains why Thomas Schelling remains foundational to nuclear strategy despite being an economist, and argues that “strategic stability” is often invoked without clear definition. He ...

🎧 Listen to the new episode of Horns of a Dilemma: tnsr.org/2026/04/unde...

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Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regulation - Kate Klonick (paper summary) St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26-0004 - March 9 2026

Cookie banners were supposed to protect your privacy. Instead they've made consent meaningless, wrecked UX, and blocked better regulation. Kate Klonick makes the case: BAN THEM! #Privacy #CookieBanners #TechPolicy isoclive.substack.com/p/ban-cookie...

Undermining workers' safety and autonomy is a direct and indirect consequence of age verification, which serves as a tool of marginalization. As the political scientist Samantha Majic of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice explained, "[We need to] make sure people can work safely and with dignity, whether they are working on OnlyFans or in a factory." Dr. Majic isn't wrong. Age verification laws claim to protect the public, but in practice, they reshape the conditions of the digital labor necessary for tens of thousands of adult creators to earn a living. The result is fewer safe, regulated spaces for online sex work and more political power concentrated in the hands of platforms and, most importantly, conservative regulators and lawmakers. For the workers caught in this crossfire, the financial and labor costs are mounting. It is social control of the highest order, and as these laws spread, sex workers will be targeted.

Papers, Please: The toll of age verification laws on digital sex work thebaffler.com/latest/paper... by Michael McGrady Jr

#ageverification #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund "We cannot have 12 trillionaires and 40 million people who can't make rent," says Tom Steyer.

This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund #Technology #Business #Other #AITaxation #SovereignWealthFund #TechPolicy

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Australia hits gambling advertising, advocates say not hard enough Australia said ​it would ban gambling advertisements featuring celebrities and limit online gambling advertisements to internet users over 18 from next year, ‌an attempt to appease public health conce...

Australia stepping into the regulatory lead once owned by Brussels

🇦🇺 is now exporting a new playbook: harm-first, platform-aware rules.

Is the “Brussels Effect” becoming the “Canberra Effect”? #regulation #gambling #techpolicy #BrusselsEffect www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

AI Governance in 2026: SMB Compliance & Growth Strategy Master AI governance in 2026. Learn how compliance and ethical AI integration drive growth for national SMBs with funding from AviBusinessSolutions.

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