Julian Mark

The Supreme Court grappled with the constitutionality of law enforcement’s use of Google location history data to track down a suspect, in a case that could further define the Constitution’s protections for digital privacy. Some of the justices seemed inclined to uphold what are known as geofence warrants, a new tool that police use to narrow down suspects based on location data collected by companies such as Google.

Recipients of Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) grants have expressed worries that years of planning to bring internet to underserved rural households could be stymied by the Trump administration’s shift in the program’s direction.

President Donald Trump fired the only two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, handing the remaining Republican commissioners exclusive control over the agency that oversees antitrust and consumer protection laws and serves as the U.S. government’s primary regulator of the tech industry. FTC  Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter announced their dismissals on the social media site X, with both calling their firings illegal.