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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · 12d

Recent OTI Policy Fellow @matt-steinberg.bsky.social published a @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece emphasizing that the "more physical #AI becomes, the more it slips through the frameworks we’ve tried to build." Learn more: www.techpolicy.press/ai-is-moving...

AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press

Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.

www.techpolicy.press

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11d

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police.

Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random.

They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

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Prem Trivedi @premmtrivedi.bsky.social · 23d

Thrilled to step into this role.

Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · 29d

📢 Big news announced at #OTIat15: @premmtrivedi.bsky.social is stepping into the role of director of @newamerica.org's OTI!

Kicking off his tenure, Prem gives a presentation on how the program is thinking about building the future internet we want. Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgrD...

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Prem Trivedi @premmtrivedi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Don't miss OTI's 15th yr anniversary, which will feature fascinating forward-looking panels & lightning talks.

New America @newamerica.org · Aug 19

For the past 15 years, OTI has been working to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits.

Join OTI on 9/9 for a lightning talk + past/present directors panel on the future of tech policy

💻 @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org go.newamerica.org/oti-at-15-5

Promotional poster for an online event by New America's Open Technology Institute titled "The Work Ahead: OTI, Tech Policy, and the Internet We Want" scheduled from 3:15 to 4:45pm ET on September 9, featuring a background of luminous, swirling blue lights.

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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · Jul 18

Well this will be impossible to operationalize. Also, pretty clearly a First Amendment violation, since it's conditioning federal contracts on speech that is unrelated to the contract performance. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/whit...

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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨 Today, @publicknowledge.bsky.social joined 21 other public interest, civil rights, labor, and digital rights groups in a letter urging FCC Chair Brendan Carr to pull an item from the FCC's July Open Meeting agenda for violating the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · Jul 15

[JULY 24] @daniel-solove.bsky.social, author of On Privacy and Technology, will unpack how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy & its relationship to power, society & healthy democracies. OTI's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social will host the discussion.

RSVP ⬇️

Privacy, Technology, and Protecting Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Solove

An event unpacking how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy and its relationship to healthy democracies.

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Prem Trivedi @premmtrivedi.bsky.social · Jul 14

Looking forward to this conversation with @daniel-solove.bsky.social !

Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Jul 14

On July 24 at 11 AM – 12 PM, I will be interviewed by Prem Trivedi at @newamerica.org ’s Open Technology Institute on privacy, technology, and democracy: www.newamerica.org/oti/events/p... Please join us for this event!

Privacy, Technology, and Protecting Democracy: A Conversation with Daniel Solove

An event unpacking how policy professionals from different fields should understand privacy and its relationship to healthy democracies.

www.newamerica.org

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · Jul 10

The #TikTokBan was never just about #TikTok.

No “deal” would make it ethical to promote protectionist tech policies under the guise of #NationalSecurity — and there is no substitute for true #DataPrivacy reform, writes VP of our programs @lcoral.bsky.social. www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/the...

The “TikTok Ban” Was Never Just About TikTok

A separation between our government and Big Tech will be crucial to defending democracy—both nationally and globally—for years to come.

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · Jun 30

"By lowering the bar for assessing the constitutionality of online age verification mandates, the #SupremeCourt puts Americans’ #privacy and #security at risk," says Open Technology Institute's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social in response to the #SCOTUS decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.

SCOTUS’ Decision to Uphold the Texas Age Verification Law Jeopardizes Everyone’s Online Privacy and Security, Says OTI

OTI responds to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a Texas law that requires certain websites to verify age.

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Prem Trivedi @premmtrivedi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today’s #SCOTUS decision in
FCC v. Consumers’ Research—which reverses the 5th Cir. & upholds key aspects of the #UniversalServiceFund (#USF)—is “a step in the right direction toward closing the #DigitalDivide." Open Tech Institute @newamerica.org statement: www.newamerica.org/oti/press-re...

OTI Welcomes SCOTUS Ruling Upholding the Constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund

OTI’s response to this morning’s SCOTUS decision, which reverses a July 2024 Fifth Circuit ruling and upholds key aspects of the USF.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Jun 25

I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE can access. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is now exposed. #HandsOffMyData www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...

Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?

The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans’ data. Take New America’s quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.

www.newamerica.org

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Prem Trivedi @premmtrivedi.bsky.social · Jun 24

We’ve watched the internet become a tool of corporate dominance, surveillance, and control.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
This piece for the Thread @newamerica.org explores what went wrong—and how we can rebuild a more democratic digital future.
👉 www.newamerica.org/the-thread/h...

How We Lost the Internet—and How We Might Win It Back

Big tech and governments have hijacked the internet. Here’s how we can take it back and build a more democratic digital future.

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · Jun 6

Senate Commerce's version of the budget bill out tonight requires states to not enforce their AI rules for 10 years under the moratorium to receive federal broadband subsidies under BEAD www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · Jun 5

The House Republican tax bill would ban (& bulldoze) state efforts to regulate #AI, halting timely and innovative policy work in a very high-stakes issue. Really important commentary from @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social and An-Me Chung at @educationwork.newamerica.org: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill Will Upend States’ Bottom-Up AI Governance and Create a Regulatory Vacuum

A 10-year ban would prohibit states from enforcing already-passed laws and passing new laws regulating AI models.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · May 14

I successfully pushed the Biden administration to clamp down on how data brokers use your private data. Now it's the latest casualty in the Trump administration's efforts to help companies turn a profit at the expense of consumers.

WIRED @wired.com · May 14

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

CFBP Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · May 9

The mayor of an American city exercising his constitutional rights being detained by force by armed, masked federal officers wielding batons.

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · May 9

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · May 9

"Blatant censorship at a critical time": @thewire.in says its website blocked by Indian government

‘Blatant censorship at a critical time’: ‘The Wire’ says its website blocked by Centre

The news outlet said it was taking all necessary steps to challenge the ‘arbitrary and inexplicable’ move.

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · May 1

OTI's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social emphasizes that the App Store Accountability Act’s age verification requirements undermine people’s rights, security, and access to online spaces. www.newamerica.org/oti/press-re...

App Store Accountability Act Magnifies Privacy and Security Risks, Says OTI

App-store age verification restricts online spaces for all users regardless of whether or not they are seeking age-restricted content.

www.newamerica.org

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Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social · Apr 23

On April 28, join @alissacooper.bsky.social, @annalenhart.bsky.social, @premmtrivedi.bsky.social, and Ramesh Nagarajan 4 a panel discussion of our new paper, “Building the Digital Platform Commission: How to Design a Regulator to Rein In Big Tech.” Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-...

Designing the Digital Platform Commission

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Apr 3

What of your data does DOGE have access to? The folks at New America made a tool to show you based on your life circumstances and interactions with the federal government. www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...

Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?

The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans’ data. Take New America’s quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.

www.newamerica.org

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Apr 3

Gutting Section 230 won't punish Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. It will just kill Bluesky and Wikipedia

230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech

Once again, several Senators appear poised to gut one of the most important laws protecting internet users – Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230). Don’t be fooled – many of Section …

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · Mar 24

#BigTech’s influence in Washington, DC, is not new, but private tech & governmental interests are merging in ways that represent a concerning reconfiguration, writes OTI Policy Director @premmtrivedi.bsky.social. www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/tru...

Trump’s Tech Governance: Making Sense of the Administration’s First 60 Days

Large tech companies are now bending to state power because they know the administration is picking winners and losers.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Mar 24

Join us to hear from journalists at the frontlines of attacks on press freedom, featuring the Marion County Record (raided in 2023), Atmore News (arrested later that year), and Clarksdale Press Register (censored last month).

🗓️ March 26, 2 pm ET/1 pm CT:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Technology and Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org · Feb 10

According to New America's OTI program, allowing the UK Home Office to circumvent Apple's end-to-end #encryption would be a backdoor for ANY bad actor to discover & abuse.

Encryption isn’t just about our individual #dataprivacy and #cybersecurity, it’s also a critical #natsec issue.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Feb 7

Exclusive: Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

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