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 regulation. The Supreme Court hearing on February 26, 2024 on the Florida and Texas laws set the stage for a broader conversation on the First Amendment rights of social media companies. To comment on the recent hearings, we brought in Internet Law and Policy Foundry alumna Jess Miers, Senior Counsel at Chamber of Progress to moderate a conversation with two other experts: Vidushi Dyall, Director Legal Analysis at Chamber of Progress who was reporting from the courtroom last week and Eric Goldman, the Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, and Co-Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate, at Santa Clara University School of Law.

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 resources listed below. This episode will be part of a mini-series on surveillance law and policy with some amazing future guests, so thank you for listening, and stay tuned for our next episode!

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 election misinformation with a special focus on public trust.

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, former journalist, and working on policy development and stakeholder engagement at a tech platform. We caught up with these three fellows to hear more about their diverse careers in tech policy and what they’ve been working on during their first year with the Foundry.

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 graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2018 where he was a Technology Law and Policy Scholar.

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 Versfeld, a threat intel 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.