Texans are rightly concerned with the enormous harms being done to their children on social media. However, due to an outdated federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), states are handcuffed in what they can do to protect children online. What is COPPA, why does it limit Texas from protecting children online, and what can the 88th Legislature do about it?
Stalin Would Have Killed For The FISA Bill Congress Just Passed
Stalin didn’t need warrants, but he would have wished for the U.S. government’s ability to buy American citizens’ data from data brokers. We lost the battle on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which federal agencies have used to surveil Americans without warrants, in the House of Representatives last week — barely. A group of liberty-minded...