Laura Moy

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s longstanding conflict-of-interest rules may unnecessarily impede its ability to attract, retain and deploy the technical expertise that it badly needs to keep up with Big Tech. To change this, the FTC needs to narrow

Contact tracing done wrong threatens privacy and invites mission creep into adjacent fields, including policing. Government actors might (and do) distort and corrupt public-health messaging to serve their own interests. Automated policing and content control raise the prospect of a slide into authoritarianism. But most critics have focused narrowly on classic privacy concerns about data leakage and mission creep—especially the risk of improper government access to and use of sensitive data.

[Commentary] I used to track cell phone location information for prosecutors. My experience illustrates the overwhelming need for better technical resources for defense attorneys.

[Commentary] President Barack Obama signed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which finally grants Americans a right that 114,000 people petitioned for, the President argued for, that both the Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously agreed to pass.

So now we have the right to unlock our phones. But what does that really mean?