Technology & Innovation

The Breakout Scale: Measuring the impact of influence operations

Ben Nimmo

September 2020

A general view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington February 28, 2013. Positions hardened on Wednesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic spending cuts beginning this week. Looking resigned to the $85 billion in "sequestration" cuts starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and spelling out to employees how furloughs will work. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E92S1U0N01

Make Surveillance Capitalists Pay Their Dues

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Protesters walk onto Morrison Bridge while rallying against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Portland, Oregon, U.S. June 3, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester

How to regulate police use of drones

Faine Greenwood

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Could a new Digital Platform Agency protect consumers from Big Tech?

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A man inspects the Apple iPhone 6 Plus at an electronics store in Mumbai, India, July 23, 2015. With only a tiny share of the world's fastest-growing major smartphone market, Apple Inc is stepping up its push into India, with a first targeted TV advertising campaign, expanded retail network and promotional financing schemes. To match APPLE-INDIA/ REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui - GF10000167811

The need for regulation of big tech beyond antitrust

Tom Wheeler, Phil Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

A Chinese researcher works on an ultracold atom device at the CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory in Shanghai, China

The state of U.S.-China quantum data security competition

Tom Stefanick

Friday, September 18, 2020

A soccer fan uses his mobile phone for betting during a television broadcast at a soccer theatre called the San Siro Stadium as the English Premier League season resumes after a three-month stoppage due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

COVID-19 exposes Africa’s digital divide

Addisu Lashitew

Friday, September 18, 2020

General view of the U.S. head office of TikTok in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

TechTank Podcast Episode 4: Should Trump ban TikTok and WeChat?

Darrell M. West, Nicol Turner Lee, and Tom Wheeler

Thursday, September 17, 2020

A group of British students protest the use of algorithms to predict their grades on standardized exams.

The tensions between explainable AI and good public policy

Diane Coyle

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

"I would see [Kamala Harris] in support of transparency and visibility of Big Tech practices and pushing for more anti-discrimination frameworks and potentially putting in place regulation if it means more competition for small businesses."

Nicol Turner Lee S&P Global Tuesday, September 15, 2020