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Byron Tau's Means of Control examines how companies ply government with personal data for the sake of surveillance.
The post Creating a New American Surveillance State appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

REAL ID is still dead, and it is still walking around. That is a product of political incentives in our democracy.
The post No, the REAL ID Deadline Is Not in One Year appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

One can imagine an alternative recent history in which the highest quality entrepreneurs crowded FTX out entirely or discovered the FTX fraud before it grew so huge.
The post Regulatory Uncertainty Pushes Good People Out of Crypto appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Getting cryptocurrency transaction information out of the IRS's hands would restore financial privacy, protect Americans from investigatory excesses and all-too-regular hacks and leaks.
The post An IRS Data Denial Threatens Privacy appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The Federal Trade Commission's Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule would likely reduce the quality of content available to children and allows the FTC to make child-rearing decisions instead of parents.
The post Protecting Children Online: Keep Parents in Charge appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Allowing firms to choose the regulatory framework they operate under can help address the patchwork of regulations across national markets.
The post Solving the Privacy “Patchwork” Through Choice of Law appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

To maintain people's independence in the modern, digital era, courts are finding that old rules giving government agents access to tangible things don't necessarily apply to digital stuff. Old rules protecting property rights do apply to digital stuff.
The post The Still-Emerging Law of Stuff appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Continued efforts to moderate online content face the blunt fact that removing content solely because it is unsavory fails to align with the implications of the First Amendment.
The post “Getting Rid of Icky” Isn’t Enough for the First Amendment appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The regulation of the internet and growing demands for increased identification online threaten to stifle the dynamism of the internet, mirroring the fate of the once-revolutionary postal service.
The post Bureaucracy, Violence, and Utopia: A Fun and Interesting Reminder appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The fourth amendment should be interpreted with its full contextual meaning, with specific attention given to the meaning of the word "search."
The post The Fourth Amendment and General Law: Not Textual Enough appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Terrorism's resurgence through Hamas's assault on Israelis prompts predictable but misguided calls for expanded financial and cryptocurrency surveillance that will ultimately prove counterproductive.
The post Will Terrorism Have Us Do More of the World's Least Effective Policy? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

A closer read of Timothy B. Lee's 2008 paper on net neutrality highlights the weaknesses of the neutrality argument and compares an over-regulated internet to other inefficient, policed industries.
The post A Durable Argument: Network Neutrality Without Regulation appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The Chicago Sun-Times' "right to be forgotten" policy is reminiscent of a similar European Union policy with one crucial difference: It's rooted in morality rather than obligation.
The post The Genius of a Private Right to Be Forgotten appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

The search and indefinite seizure of a personal cell phone without ongoing evidentiary need breaches Fourth Amendment principles.
The post On Property and Privacy, Common Sense Can Be a “BIG DEAL” appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Creating a communications channel for law enforcement requests adjacent to the transaction channel in digital currencies might solve the privacy versus security dichotomy and preserve both in digital transactions.
The post Can There Be Digital Currency Law Enforcement Without Mass Surveillance? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.