by Innovation Economy Alliance | Nov 19, 2024 | Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Event Archive, Privacy, Security
The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) recently hosted an event on Encryption and Online Commerce featuring the Innovation Economy Alliance’s Executive Director Bartlett Cleland. IPI reports “Encryption is vital for secure online commerce and private...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, E-Government, IEI post, Security
The Pentagon’s current Authority to Operate (ATO) process poses a significant risk to the innovations our military needs. Among the three letter alphabet soup acronyms of the Federal government there’s one which stands out almost exclusively as perpetually problematic...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Sep 23, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
The Executive Director of the Innovation Economy Institute, Bartlett Cleland, joins Pacific Research Institutes podcast to discuss big tech debates and how the upcoming prresidential election could affect tech policy. Click here to listen to the podcast.
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Jun 5, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Online Speech, Privacy, Security
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by Innovation Economy Alliance | May 7, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Testimonies & Filings
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by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 15, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Online Speech, Privacy, Security
Both state and federal legislators are actively pushing legislation designed to “protect our children online.” Of course, there is already a federal Children’s Online Privacy Act that regulates the online collection of personal information about children under 13...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jan 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission is fast becoming a living case study in ideological overreach. Undaunted by a string of embarrassing court losses and plummeting morale among career staffers, the agency keeps grasping at the most slender reeds of legal theories and...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 18, 2023 | Competitiveness, IEI post, Privacy, Regulation, Security, Telecommunications
Click Here to Read the Digital Discrimination Coalition...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 18, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Artificial Intelligence, Competition & Free Market, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, IT & Data Innovation, Regulation
Click here to read the NO FAKES Act Coalition...
by Bartlett Cleland | Dec 7, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, IT & Data Innovation, Wireless
Air pollution from Canadian wildfires is just one of the problems we face from our neighbor to the north. A Canadian company weaponizing intellectual property rights could do major damage to the U.S. tech sector. Bell Northern Research has been around since the 1970s,...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Oct 18, 2023 | Competitiveness, Health IT, Healthcare Innovation, IEI post, Reports & Briefings
IEI Signs Coalition Letter Dear Members of Congress, When the Inflation Reduction Act was passed and signed into law a year ago, the legislation granted the federal government broad power to set and control the price of certain prescription drugs through a new...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 8, 2022 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, IEI post, Privacy, Regulation, Security
IEI Signs Coalition Letter Urging Commonsense Changes to Kids Online Safety Act Read the Full Coalition Letter...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, IEI post, Privacy, Security
Because of the response to COVID, a variety of local and state governments have required many of the nation’s children to attend class online. To try to maintain some sort of social contact many of those same kids are increasingly using electronic devices of various...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, IT & Data Innovation, Regulation, Uncategorized
Frequent antitrust interventions into the economy have thankfully been out of fashion in recent years. However, about once a decade Washington uses government’s biggest hammer against industry, antitrust law, in an effort to smash a disfavored company. This is one of...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 5, 2020 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Privacy, Publications
PRI Senior Fellow in Tech and Innovation Bartlett Cleland joins us to discuss the California Consumer Privacy Act, which took effect on July 1. He discusses the serious flaws with the new law and how it will impact consumers and business owners, looks ahead to...
by Anna Parsons | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Privacy, Regulation
Companies built empires on user data — information volunteered in exchange for services. But with heightened privacy scrutiny, could those companies survive today? The California Consumer Privacy Act is challenging how companies use data and testing their viability....
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 5, 2020 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, IT & Data Innovation, Privacy
On November 3, Californians will be asked to make a what appears to be a simple decision, that is, would they like to increase their privacy? However, where Proposition 24, to enable the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act is concerned, appearances are...
by Bartlett Cleland | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, E-Government, Ecosystem, Regulation, Taxes & Budget
Last month the state of California began enforcing its expensive and heavy-handed new business privacy laws despite the economic burdens already borne by business because of COVID-19 and the government’s shut down of the economy. At $55 billion in compliance costs...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 24, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Privacy
Businesses were ordered to close. Schools were shuttered. People were told to stay home. Many believed that in a week or two life for the most part would return to normal and that COVID would be a bad memory. Now, four months later, California has not just halted...
by Anna Parsons | Apr 17, 2020 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Artificial Intelligence, Competition & Free Market, Ecosystem, IT & Data Innovation, Publications, Regulation
Co-Authored with Anne Hobson “Algorithms’ are only as good as the data that gets packed into them,” said Democratic Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren. “And if a lot of discriminatory data gets packed in, if that’s how the world works, and the algorithm is doing...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Apr 15, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Competition & Free Market, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IT & Data Innovation, Publications, Regulation, Telecommunications, Testimonies & Filings, Wireless
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