David Dunmoyer is the campaign director for Better Tech for Tomorrow and water policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In this role, he publishes research and commentary, provides expert testimony, and advocates for responsible technology and water policy in the Texas legislature. His portfolio includes artificial intelligence, data privacy, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, national security and tech, and other emerging technology issues.
Dunmoyer serves as a committee member of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Water Infrastructure Security Enhancements (WISE) Stand, where he works alongside thought leaders and policymakers to address security for water infrastructure nationwide.
During the pandemic, while Americans were grappling with kitchen table issues such as job security, basic freedoms, the well-being of their loved ones and, importantly, the education of their children, Big Tech silently wrote their ticket to further subsidize their already trillion-dollar industry. And it wasn’t through broadband grants or shadowy back-door-deals tasking Meta or...
When Senator Ted Cruz challenged Microsoft one year ago over their funding of NewsGuard’s so-called “media literacy” program, the company claimed it had cut ties. Microsoft asserted its support was limited to a one-time 2018 donation and subsequently asked NewsGuard to remove their name from its website. Senator Cruz, acting in good faith, praised this apparent disavowal believing Microsoft...
I’ll never forget where I was when news broke that Charlie Kirk had been shot. I was in a meeting with a group of colleagues when a peer to my right announced the horrific news. Each of us began to scroll deeper and deeper down X, three of the five of us almost immediately exposed...
One week before the Texas Legislature gaveled in to do the work of Texans, the House and Senate held a joint committee hearing to study the effects of social media on minors. The goal was simple — to hear from experts, advocates and victims of social media to better understand why our kids are being...
Texas farm and ranch land is at risk. It’s not the Chinese, although lawmakers have introduced a suite of bills to fight against foreign adversaries gobbling up precious land. Something else is destroying the soil itself and livestock that graze on it. PFAs (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, colloquially called “forever chemicals”) are an imperishable poison that is...
If you’ve walked around a major city in the last year, chances are you’ve crossed paths with a self-driving vehicle. San Francisco, Phoenix, Nashville, and my hometown of Austin are just some of the places where robotaxis are taking off. But are they taking off with our autonomy? Lately, it seems like for every company...
At the heart of the Right to Repair movement is human agency — the agency to use your property as you see fit. I recently built a coffee table. This was my first foray into woodworking, so the table is far from perfect — with slight asymmetries and an uneven finish. A level would tell...
We are a few short months away from the start of a legislative session that will be punctuated with countless debates and hearings on AI legislation. Many of these discussions are dominated by the shiny objects—the deepfakes, autonomous vehicles, robotics, etc. To be clear, these are crucially important topics that demand the utmost scrutiny from...
Once downloaded, Temu can access almost anything on your phone — the camera, internet, audio recordings, and more — according to one study. If you polled Americans on whether they would be comfortable handing over sensitive personal and financial information to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), you would likely get a near-unanimous declaration of “no!”...
Texas is stepping into the breach to lead the nation with a responsible, pro-innovation legislative framework for artificial intelligence. The California Legislature is right in that the civilizational implications posed by AI technology necessitate a public policy response. But the response has been a cacophony of onerous regulations, wokeism, and a fundamental misunderstanding of emerging...
The harm that could befall us if Russia, Iran, and China ratchet up the frequency of cyberattacks on our water systems is astounding. Earlier this year, in my home state of Texas, Russian cyberterrorists reportedly hacked into the city of Muleshoe’s water treatment facility computer systems, flooding the water tank that supplies drinking water for this small town of...
Common sense tells us that when someone says, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” the inverse of that statement is not, “you will get sick and immediately die if you forget to pack an apple for lunch.” Yet TikTok parent company ByteDance thinks Americans are credulous enough to accept the premise that we...