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This week, MPs could make a deeply flawed bill much worse. As we at the Centre for Policy Studies have repeatedly warned, the Online Safety Bill (OSB) as it currently stands poses a significant threat to free speech, privacy, security, innovation and investment in the British technology sector. One of the core aims of the […] → Read More
Earlier this week, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ordered Meta (the conglomerate that owns Facebook and WhatsApp) to sell Giphy, the gif search engine and database. The order reveals a number of questionable assumptions and could lead to technology companies avoiding British acquisitions. Facebook bought Giphy in 2020 for a reported $315m. The purchase […] → Read More
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have both suggested that they would like to see changes to the Online Safety Bill (OSB). But neither has committed to changing the most worrying features of the bill – which pose a threat to free speech, privacy and competition. The next Prime Minister should reject calls for more regulation […] → Read More
Policies that embrace freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship while accepting risk can provide humanity with the technology to make us all freer, healthier, and safer. → Read More
Clearview AI's use of facial recognition is the perfect example of why we need to effectively regulate this new technology. → Read More
The most prominent of America’s contradictions is that its Founding documents were written by white men who owned black human beings as farm equipment, yet they expressed a commitment to liberty. → Read More
The most prominent of America’s contradictions is that its Founding documents were written by white men who owned black human beings as farm equipment, yet they expressed a commitment to liberty. → Read More
The Chinese telecom company ZTE is helping the Venezuelan government build a network for its “Fatherland Card,” an ID card that is being increasingly linked to government services. The Fatherland Card provides access to troves of personal information including political affiliation, medical history, employment status, and much more. What was ostensibly designed to provide millions of Venezuelans… → Read More
When most people think of the tech giant Amazon, they think of an innovative, consumer-friendly company responsible for affordable deliveries. Recent news is shattering that image. → Read More
Although the Fourth Amendment protects us and our "effects" from "unreasonable searches and seizures," Customs and Border Protection agents can take advantage.. → Read More
Big Brother could go after American citizens too. → Read More
There are strong indicators that President-elect Donald Trump plans to govern as a tough-on-crime executive. In addition to his fire and brimstone law and order rhetoric during the campaign, he has nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as Attorney General, which has civil libertarians deeply concerned. As such, it’s worth asking [...] → Read More
At the beginning of this year, transitional controls on the migration of Bulgarians and Romanians within the European Union were lifted. At the time, I argued that free marketeers should welcome Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), whose members are not fans of the E.U.'s free movement policy, claimed that with transitional controls lifted, the c → Read More
Turkish trade unions, who blame privatization for making mine working conditions more dangerous, are holding a one-day strike in the wake of the recent mine explosion in Soma, which resulted in the deaths of 282 people. Senate Republicans say that they will pass immigration reform in the next two years if they manag → Read More
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has accepted the resignation of the U.N. and Arab League's special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who has → Read More
At least 232 people are dead after an explosion at a mine in Soma, 280 miles west of the Turkish capital Ankara. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has said that → Read More
According to polling from Pew there has been a slight increase in support for the European Union ahead of next week's European Parliament elections following → Read More
The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has said that the GOP shouldn't field a 2016 presidential candidate if Congress does not pass immigration → Read More
Over at his Telegraph blog Dan Hodges asks what we're going to do if Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist organization that recently kidnapped over 200 girls, doesn't succumb to the demands of those posting the #bringbackourgirls hashtag. Boko Haram recently released footage of som → Read More
An interventionist foreign policy is not only often unwise, it's expensive → Read More