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A review of Samanth Subramanian, “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World” (Columbia Global Reports, 2025).

Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts talked through the week’s big news in national security.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies, announced new recipients of its Career Achievement Award, recognizing exceptional leaders whose work has advanced privacy, responsible data governance, and AI leadership worldwide. The 2026 recipients of the FPF Career Achievement Award are:  Alan Raul, FPF’s […]

Regulations that force developers to disclose trade secrets to the public could violate the Constitution. How can regulators respond?

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Janel Thamkul, former frontier counsel team member at Anthropic, joins Kevin Frazier to discuss what it means to practice law at the frontier of AI.<br /></p><p>This episode starts with a review of Janel’s fascinating and varied background. Next, she walks through her initial exploration

As policymakers continue to debate youth online safety regulations, a new FPF report assesses the role of data-driven personalization and its implications for emerging policy and product design WASHINGTON, D.C. — (June 10, 2026) — The Future of Privacy Forum — a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies —today released Personalization […]

Introduction It has been an unusually active few weeks for AI safety policy. Following a new frontier model safety bill passed in Illinois, and a White House executive order on AI security, Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) released a bipartisan discussion draft for the Great American AI Act of 2026, adding […]

On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later. Source

✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Tech Futures series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). The series challenges mainstream […] Source

Louisiana has become the 22nd U.S. state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law—and the third this year following Oklahoma and Alabama—after Governor Landry signed the Louisiana Data Privacy Act (LDPA) (SB 386) on May 29. Overall, this is a fairly standard state privacy law that follows the Washington Privacy Act framework apart from the law’s […]

On May 28, 2026, the 5th Circuit granted a stay on the preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Texas’s App Store Accountability Act (ASAA)—meaning the law is now in effect while litigation on the merits continues. In 2025, Utah, Texas, and Louisiana enacted App Store Accountability Acts (ASAAs) which impose novel and significant age assurance obligations […]

Is there a role for Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to play in the context of international data transfers? The answer to this question could be one of the keys to unlock trusted cross-border data flows at scale in the age of AI. This was the topic explored in a session organized by the Future of […]

When I was in college, privacy existed but the privacy profession did not. Some cynics might say that the reverse is true now, but the reality is more complex: even amidst mounting pressures on individual privacy, there are arguably more privacy protections enshrined into law around the world than ever before.  One point, though, is beyond […]

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has released a suite of practitioner resources on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for the education sector. Building on FPF’s 2025 landscape analysis of PETs adoption by State Education Agencies, the new resources move from landscape analysis to implementation considerations — providing audience-specific guidance for the three practitioner communities most […]

Connecticut’s SB 5 fits a lot of AI obligations into a small bill number. This week, Governor Lamont (D) signed the 39-section bill into law, creating new requirements across several fast-moving areas of AI policy, including companion chatbots, automated employment decision tools (AEDTs), social media, and provenance data. The law also includes provisions related to […]

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) has been revised multiple times since being enacted in 2022: SB 3 added heightened protections for consumer health data and for minors in 2023; and SB 1295 in 2025 expanded the law’s scope, updated and added consumer rights, modified the data minimization and purpose limitation requirements, prescribed impact assessment […]

✍️ Column by Connor Wright, our Director of Partnerships. Photo Credit: Jackie Hutchinson on Unsplash Overview: Our Director of Partnerships, Connor Wright, was invited to speak at the MISSION Hubs Forum2026 in Montreal on the 11th of May, a key gathering for creative agencies across the world. Tasked with “Demystifying the AI-influenced reality,” and in […] Source

✍️By Emma Edney from Encode Canada. Emma is a BCL/JD McCall MacBain Scholar candidate at McGill University. Her interests include ethical issues surrounding personal information in technology and the impact of AI on litigation work. Emma is a writer at Encode Canada and a junior editor for the McGill Health and Law Journal. 📌 Editor’s Note: […] Source

✍️By Kennedy O’Neil from Encode Canada. Kennedy is an undergraduate sociology student at McGill University, with a minor in psychology, and a writer for Encode Canada. 📌 Editor’s Note: This piece is part of our Recess series, featuring university students from Encode’s Canadian chapter at McGill University. The series aims to share insights from university […] Source

On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. Source

✍️ By Sarah Ruth and Marion Meyers Sarah is a researcher committed to building critical AI literacies and worked as a copywriter on the Resist List. Marion is an independent researcher focused on AI and degrowth, and worked as a project manager on the Resist List. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our […] Source

Power, Fracture, Resistance SAIER Volume 8 (2026) is now open for contributions. We are looking for practitioners, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and community members who are doing the work and who want to help document it. → Submit your expression of interest. About SAIER Since the first edition in 2020, the State of AI Ethics Report […] Source

✍️By Selen Dogan Kosterit Selen is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part of our AI Policy Corner series, a collaboration between the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) and the Governance and Responsible AI Lab […] Source

On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. Source