Data Protection

Despite a vast investment security system, the lack of a functioning NSC risks undermining agency coordination, rulemaking coherence, predictability, and enforcement.

AI governance in Africa is reproducing extraction dynamics at a continental scale through the guise of development.

Surveys how the 2025 ICRC GC IV Commentary integrates technology into its analysis of specific rules, while raising concerns about its treatment of data as property.

To lead in biotechnology, the United States must modernize its data infrastructure and create biodata built for the AI future.

Inaction on PADFA means that the personal information of U.S. citizens can continue to be transferred to adversarial nations without consequences.

Disappearance of vital resources from government websites exposes a fragile ecosystem in which accountability mechanisms have broken down.

The states have stepped up to regulate consumer-facing online services where the federal government has been utterly silent. But the tech companies are not sitting idly by.

A national data protection strategy would better position the United States to follow through on the promise to protect personal data as a national security imperative.

What stories or topics merited more attention in 2023, with a particular eye toward what might inform law and policy conversations in 2024?

The use of AI in government is a response to the problem of how to dispense justice at scale.

Resolving AI challenges requires global cooperation - or waiting for a crisis that brings the need for multilateralism into sharper focus.

Bruce Schneier filed a declaration in support of a Knight Institute complaint against Texas' ban on TikTok for public university employees.