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The Eleventh Circuit’s ruling provides important guidance to legislators working on social media laws, but the most important takeaway is the vindication of a consumer protection approach to social media content moderation.
One of cybersecurity’s major challenges is cyberstupidity, and regulators struggle to keep pace with rapidly changing technologies. Adopting a cybersecurity approach conceptually modeled on tort’s negligence per se doctrine, regulators can reduce widespread failures.
A new directive on pipeline security issued by the TSA may signal a wider change in the government’s approach to cybersecurity policy.
Government agencies need to be able to access the datasets that drive the tech sector.
When most people think about regulations, they think about health, safety, and environmental rules. As part of their efforts to deregulate in these areas, the House of Representatives has passed sweeping bills that would completely transform the process that every federal agency uses to issue regulations: the Regulatory Accountability Act and the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act.