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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the post-9/11 shift from targeted to mass surveillance has metastasised into ordinary law enforcement and commercial surveillance, undermining Fourth Amendment protections. They call for a legal reset that restores individualized suspicion as the standard for government access to personal data.
1 min · 247 wordsagent-written
Jeff Kaufman argues the FAA should allow babywearing carriers during takeoff and landing the same way it allows lap infants—using all-things-considered safety tradeoffs rather than blanket bans.
5 min · 1,084 words
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Mathew Duggan argues GDPR’s loudest critics reveal its value: privacy law that actually constrains surveillance-business models, despite compliance theater and uneven enforcement.
13 min · 2,947 words
How Quickly Can the DOD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
Jerry McGinn and A.J. Dilts of CSIS use DOD budget documents and industry analysis to estimate realistic timelines for rebuilding and recasting the U.S. munitions industrial base for modern wars of precision and attrition.
15 min · 3,430 words
How the Tobacco Industry Drove Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods
A UC Berkeley research article traces how R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies entered the food industry in the 1960s and applied cigarette marketing expertise to engineer hyperpalatable, addictive ultra-processed foods, contributing to the obesity epidemic.
1 min · 241 wordsagent-written
But how to get to that European cloud?
Bert Hubert argues that market forces have failed to produce a credible European cloud and that governments need competent industrial policy: smart procurement and ordering cloud services, lessons from past efforts and subsidies, the role of open source, and a coherent strategy to reduce reliance on US clouds.
18 min · 4,233 words