Madison Grady, MPP Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives When you download an app onto your phone, do you check to see who created the app, or who owns… Read more “Tik-Tok Could be the Final Straw for Washington: Protecting Americans’ Data on Foreign-Owned Apps”
Category: Technology Policy
Getting Online: How States Can Address the Rural Broadband Adoption Gap
Reeve Jacobus, MPP Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives Whether dealing with incarceration, health, or suicide rates, policy prescriptions that solve the problems of urban Americans aren’t often… Read more “Getting Online: How States Can Address the Rural Broadband Adoption Gap”
Modernizing America’s Voting System to Improve Voter Turnout
Reeve Jacobus, MPP Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives Preliminary analyses suggest that young adults voted at a historically high rate in the 2018 midterm elections. A report… Read more “Modernizing America’s Voting System to Improve Voter Turnout”
Safeguarding Individual Data in the 2020 Census
Jenna Shelton, MPP Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives With the 2020 Census just around the corner, the Census Bureau announced it will apply differential privacy, a rigorous… Read more “Safeguarding Individual Data in the 2020 Census”
GW WonkCast S3E14-1: Below the Fold: The Right to Repair and a Net Neutrality Update
In this Below the Fold, co-Host Gabe Moss dives into the right to repair. How do companies like Microsoft, John Deere, and Apple prevent customers from repairing… Read more “GW WonkCast S3E14-1: Below the Fold: The Right to Repair and a Net Neutrality Update”
Computer Vision and the Energy Sector
Charles Landau, MPA, Staff Writer, Brief Policy Perspectives Image recognition and computer vision have come a long way in recent years. Computers and Artificial Intelligence tools have gotten… Read more “Computer Vision and the Energy Sector”
GW WonkCast S3E13-2: Protecting Personal Information
How can data breaches be prevented? Learn about cybersecurity policy with this week’s #wonkywednesday guest, GW Masters student Jacob Biesieda. Jacob runs DCrypted, a cybersecurity podcast for the… Read more “GW WonkCast S3E13-2: Protecting Personal Information”
Staff Writer Cory Lancaster Featured on Podcast on YouTube Labor Laws
After writing a Policy Perspectives article on whether or not there should be labor laws for YouTube content creators, the YouTube channel Prometheus Live! reached out to… Read more “Staff Writer Cory Lancaster Featured on Podcast on YouTube Labor Laws”
GW WonkCast S3E11-3: Above the Fold: Facebook, Privacy, and Surveillance
The latest Above the Fold covers Mark Zuckerberg’s recent trip to Washington. Last month, news broke that the data firm Cambridge Analytica accessed the personal data of… Read more “GW WonkCast S3E11-3: Above the Fold: Facebook, Privacy, and Surveillance”
GW WonkCast S3E10-2: Regulating the Internet
The original GW WonkCast moderator Nathan Rupp returns! And he’s here to talk about regulating the internet! Nathan joins co-Hosts Natalia Abrahams, Jessica Blackband, and Gabe Moss.… Read more “GW WonkCast S3E10-2: Regulating the Internet”
