Top Silicon Valley bosses are briefing lawmakers on artificial intelligence, but many hold competing views on the technology…
Senators Call for Government Power to Hand Out Licenses to AI Companies, Curb “Deceptive” Election-Related AI and “Deepfakes”…
More government power. First Amendment complications…
28 Congressional Democrats Sign Letter Demanding Department of Education Allow Biological Males in Girls’ Sports…
Twenty-eight congressional Democrats signed a letter Wednesday condemning the Department of Education for ruling that public schools that allow biological males who identify as transgender to play girls’ sports are violating Title IX civil rights legislation. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal joined 27 House Democrats in signing the letter, which charged that the department’s order […]
9/11 Families, Experts Mount Unprecedented Challenge to NIST in New Filing…
Family members of those who died on September 11, 2001, joined building experts earlier today in submitting a “request for correction” to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding its 2008 report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. The request, which comprises more than 100 pages and five exhibits, represents […]
Barr, Grenell Block 9/11 Families Access to Evidence with Broad, ‘Unprecedented’ Claims of Secrecy…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly invoked the state secrets privilege this week to block 9/11 survivors and family members from obtaining crucial evidence to support their multi-billion dollar damages lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. In sworn public declarations filed in federal court in New York, the nation’s […]
FBI Seeks to Hide Its Legal Arguments in 9/11 Case As Senator’s Ask Justice’s IG to Investigate ‘Abnormalities’…
The U.S. is asking a federal judge to allow it to file secret legal arguments in the mammoth New York lawsuit against Saudi Arabia brought by 9/11 families and survivors. If the court allows it, the government’s hidden line of reasoning would be so secret that even the 9/11 victims and their lawyers would not […]
U.S. Senators Seek Answers from Inspector General on Behalf of 9/11 Families…
U.S. Senator Says Apple, Google Need to Show Contact Tracing Will Not Violate Privacy…
Smartphone software makers Alphabet’s Google and Apple will have to convince the public that any apps to help track who has been exposed to the new coronavirus will not lead to a violation of their privacy, Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday. “Apple and Google have a lot of work to do to convince a […]
Bipartisan Sens. Demand DOJ Include ‘Search’ In Google Antitrust Investigation…
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (R) are instructing the Justice Department to include Google’s search engine in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the tech giant Tuesday. “How Google operates its search engine warrants close scrutiny,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. “At more than […]
Zuckerberg Meets with Trump, Republican Senators…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the latest sign of the tech mogul’s personal outreach amid mounting scrutiny from Washington. Despite the president’s history of accusing Facebook of being anti-Trump, suggesting the company is an antitrust problem, and criticizing its digital currency, Libra, both Trump and […]