Please join ITIF for an expert panel discussion on the role of Chinese e-commerce platforms in facilitating counterfeiting, what this means for U.S. competitiveness, consumer trust, and global trade, and the steps policymakers should take to safeguard American innovators and consumers.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
The UK Online Safety Act aims to protect children online but its vague rules and strict enforcement have led to over-censorship, threatening legitimate communities, and Parliament should clarify content definitions, allow remediation periods, and require judicial review to fix these issues.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
California’s new AI safety law includes some constructive measures like incident reporting and whistleblower protections, but by acting at the state level, it creates a fragmented regulatory patchwork that undermines innovation, complicates a national framework, and risks weakening U.S. leadership in AI governance.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
California’s proposed SB 7 would heavily restrict employers’ use of AI in workplace decisions through onerous notice, transparency, and appeal requirements, creating redundant regulations that discourage beneficial AI adoption and ultimately harm both workers and businesses.| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Feed
With the European Commission's newly released 2025 Strategic Foresight Report—its annual guide for setting long-term policy priorities—calling for an “EU values-based innovation model” as an alternative to the "market-driven" and "Chinese state-driven" approaches, the Commission clearly has its head| Center for Data Innovation
In its push for digital sovereignty, the European Commission is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft Azure with the French cloud provider OVHcloud or another European alternative. But this move, while politically symbolic, would be costly. Far from enhancing security, this migration would sacrif| Center for Data Innovation
LONDON—In response to the UK government’s release of its new Industrial Strategy and the accompanying Digital and Technologies Sector Plan, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for the UK and EU: The UK’s new Industrial Strategy| Center for Data Innovation
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, has announced plans to abandon Microsoft's productivity suite for open-source alternatives by mid-2025, framing the decision as a reduction in both digital dependencies and costs. But the reality is that the government is prioritising political symbo| Center for Data Innovation
Data Maturity Valley: Identifying and Mitigating Inexorable Inefficiencies in the face of Multi-Platform Integration. Learn more!| Motive Power
The Center has submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the proposed rule for supervising large non-bank participants in the general-use digital consumer payment application industry. The proposed regulation would cover several different types of consumer products, includin| Center for Data Innovation
The UK government released its response to the UK AI Regulation White Paper consultation on 6th February 2024, outlining a new pathway for “agile” artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. It confirmed plans to place greater responsibility on existing sector-specific regulators to oversee the develop| Center for Data Innovation
Marcus Bokkerink, Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), delivered a keynote speech to the AI Fringe Hub on November 1, 2023. In his speech, Bokkerink discussed the balance between competition and consumer protection through the lens of AI, before evaluating the broader digital contex| Center for Data Innovation
Labelled the “Snooper’s Charter” for permitting mass digital surveillance in the UK in the name of public safety, the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 is under scrutiny once again following the announcement late last year in the King’s Speech of a bill to amend the original law. The proposed amen| Center for Data Innovation
After a deadly crash in the Washington, D.C. metro system in 2009, government officials suspended the use of automatic train operations (ATO), a system that automatically accelerates and brakes trains between stations. Despite later investigations finding ATO was not to blame for the accident and de| Center for Data Innovation
