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📢 Meet Our Fellows: William Burns📢 What does it take to turn ideals into real-world impact? For William Burns, a Tech Policy Press 2025 fellow, a belief in cross-border collaboration drives his work.   “I believe in cross-border collaboration and that it is down to citizens to make the European project live up to hopes and expectations”, he says. Having spent years in science policy, William has extensive experience observing academic discourse around tech policy but finds academic analyses often lack real-world insight. William will bring a sharp, critical lens to this fellowship through his pragmatic perspective on policy-oriented advocacy. Through this fellowship, William is eager to examine sovereign capacity in #AI and what #EU member states must do to exercise democratic control over these technological systems. We’re excited to see how William’s analyses shape the conversation on democracy and technology! https://lnkd.in/dfHRcJRF Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on our fellows and their latest work. https://lnkd.in/dn-vvrMC #MeetOurFellows #TechAndDemocracy #EU #BigTech

Internet-connected devices offer a new vector for child abuse, writes Lurilla Bereveskos. We must ensure that children are protected from the technology that brings the internet into their everyday interactions, she says.

The decisions of the European Commission going forward will hold a higher position on the world stage as the US looks set to move away from enforcing antitrust action against Big Tech, writes Tech Policy Press Fellow Megan Kirkwood.

Catch up on what happened in US tech policy in March with a roundup from Freedman Consulting, LLC’s Rachel Lau and J.J. Tolentino and Tech Policy Press’s Benjamin Lennett, including coverage of the #FTC, public comments on the WH’s #AI Action Plan, and new and advancing legislation in #Congress.

The Code of Practice draft is an outlier due to its weak approach to human rights protections, write Dr. Laura Caroli, Laura Lázaro Cabrera, and David Evan Harris. https://lnkd.in/d-uPtVAg

At the core of India’s approach to data protection lies the philosophy that digital systems are better governed at the design stage, writes Amber Sinha.

To bridge the gap between news coverage and the actual scale of #deepfake abuse, Encode recently created the Child Deepfake Incident Map: a digital tool designed to track and visualize reported cases across the US.

🎙️ The controversy over revelations in The Atlantic from a #Signal group chat including top US national security officials planning a strike in #Yemen continues to play out. What went wrong—and what does it mean? Justin Hendrix spoke to Ryan Goodman (New York University School of Law + Just Security) and Cooper Quintin (Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)). Listen now.

Mark Dempsey explains how a recent decision by the EU’s Court of Justice may ultimately carry more weight than the forthcoming guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance. “With this ruling, tech companies now have to tread carefully when denying access to their open platforms.”