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 However, due to an outdated federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), states are handcuffed in what they can do to protect children online.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?
Technology
A Penny for Your Thoughts: How New Technology Threatens Mental Privacy
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” —George Orwell, “1984″ If science fiction has taught us anything, it is that the danger of mind reading is not the technology itself, but the power that comes with the control of information. George Orwell’s...
July 28, 2026