Tech Policy Grind

This week on the Tech Policy Grind, an expert panel unpacked the two First Amendment cases heard by the Supreme Court last week: NetChoice v. Moody and Paxton v. NetChoice. In 2021, Florida and Texas introduced laws to prevent social media companies from banning political candidates or censoring content based on viewpoints, sparking a debate about the balance between free speech and platform regul...

In this episode, Foundry Fellow Katelyn Ringrose sat down with Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, to discuss Jay’s work on aerial surveillance law and policy, with a spotlight on the work that the ACLU is doing to keep you safe from eyes in the sky. While these two drone on about aerial surveillance (no pun intended), check out some of the re...

Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! To kick off Season Five, the Tech Policy Grind is bringing you to State of the Net 2024 Live! 

The year's final episode stars Reema, Meri, and Lama one last time before their fellowship with The Foundry ends in January.

This week, Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with the host of the TPG, Reema Moussa, to chat about her journey into tech law and policy.

This week, Reema chats 2023 privacy law year-in-review updates with Keir Lamont (FPF) and Divya Sridhar (BBB National Programs).

This week, the TPG gets “meta”: Reema chats with podcasters Angelique Carson, Noah Katz, and Nicole Dove on tech policy podcast production.

Reema chats with Marcela Mattiuzzo and Nathalie Fragoso, Partners at VMCA Advogados, on Brazilian privacy law and regulatory policy updates.

Senior Foundry Fellows Reema Moussa, Lama Mohammed, and Joe Catapano cover a couple of headlines from the latest in tech policy. 

In this episode, Class 4 Senior Fellow Lama Mohammed interviews Katie Harbath, CEO and Founder of Anchor Change. Anchor Change is a consulting organization developing solutions at the intersection of tech, policy, and business focusing on global issues related to democracy, elections, and civic engagement online. Episode 32 of Season 4 features Lama in an insightful discussion with Katie on electi...

This week, host Reema Moussa catches up with three Class 5 fellows Evan Enzer, Zia Mohammad, and Daniela Guzman Peña. Evan Enzer is the editor of the Tech Policy Grind podcast and a consultant focused on privacy law compliance and operations. Zia is a technologist working as a product manager for Amazon Web Services in quantum computing. Daniela is a co-producer of the Tech Policy Grind podcast, f...

This week Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Dyllan Brown-Bramble, who is a Class 4 fellow and leads Foundry’s Annual Policy Hackathon Committee. Dyllan is an associate at a global law firm where he practices privacy and cybersecurity law. He also serves as a Junior Board Member for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.). Dyllan grad...

On this week’s episode, Evan Enzer, an ILPF fellow and car-centric SoCal Native, met up with Adonne Washington (Future of Privacy Forum) and Andrea Amico (Privacy4Cars) to cover our introduction to vehicle privacy, a fast-emerging market in the broader privacy law and policy profession.

Foundry Fellow Katelyn Ringrose chats with Cobun Zweifel-Keegan (IAPP) and Vinny DiGilio (Grindr) about queer privacy and digital equity.

Reema chats with Justin Sherman on data brokers: including FTC action, the California Delete Act, and the civil liberties at stake, and more.

Meri sits down with Grant, a security engineer and Co-VP for the Foundry’s current E-Board, on his foray into cyber policy.

Rebecca Kilberg interviews Dr. Stephen Abrams, Head of the Digital Preservation program at the Harvard University Library.

This week Class 5 Fellow Gabe Rudin sits down with Jena Valdetero (Greenberg Traurig) to talk incident response and the new SEC cyber rules.

Meri sits down with Foundry Fellow David Morar, Ph. D. to chat about his career in privacy, open data, tech ethics and internet governance.

Meri Baghdasaryan chats with Foundry Fellow Justin P’ng about his career journey into privacy and cybersecurity law as a Canadian attorney.

Lama chats with Jiahao Chen, Amber Ezzell, and Juhi Koré, in a recent panel on what AI bias is and what can be done to remedy it.

This week, Reema chats with David Ryan Polgar, Founder of All Tech is Human, about creating a responsible tech community.

In this episode, Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with Glen Echo Group's creative team on protections for creators in the age of generative AI.

The rollout of generative AI has helped illustrate how transformative AI technology can be. However, the emergence of AI should not be a surprise given that its implementation in other sectors has been occurring for years. In this conversation moderated by Foundry Fellow Alvaro Marañon, Hodan Omaar (ITIF), Charley Snyder, (Google), and Gillian Diebold (ITIF) discuss how artificial intelligence has...

Reema and Professor Eric Goldman discuss how the fediverse works, the pros and cons of decentralizing social media, and Meta's "Threads."