Government & Communications

Protecting the privacy and security of personal data held by the government: 

Gov Gavin Newsom (D-CA) issued an executive order to strengthen California’s procurement processes and raise the bar for artificial intelligence companies seeking to do business with the state.

The White House launched its new official mobile app—delivering President Donald Trump and his Administration directly to the American people like never before. This new app offers Americans a direct line to the White House—cutting through the noise with unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source. With the official White House app, Americans can:

The Supreme Court tossed out a billion-dollar verdict against an internet service provider (ISP) in a closely watched case that could have severely damaged many Americans’ access to the internet if it had gone the other way. The decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment is part of a broader pattern.

A report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) covers the progress of six broadband grant programs administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). As of October 31, 2025, over $46.2 billion in grants has been awarded to support expanding broadband infrastructure. This is an increase of $2.4 million (0.01 percent) since our last status report. The six broadband grant programs have received a total of nearly $50 billion in appropriations since December 2020.

Five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) received federal broadband funding. Each faced different terrain: different communities, different levels of trust, different local economies. So each built something different. This is what they built, and what happened. Across all five sites, we found the same underlying logic model at work: local context shaping decisions about infrastructure delivery, adoption strategy, and economic pathway, and those decisions galvanizing regional impacts.

The National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence is silent on whether and how to govern the trajectory of AI development itself. It says nothing about frontier model safety evaluation, responsible scaling, international coordination on development risks, or verification mechanisms.

The illegality of your authoritarian management of the Federal Communications Commission is exacerbated by the fact that President Trump has asserted unprecedented executive branch control over this agency.

The agency I lead, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) is the major grant-making entity for our state. ADECA is at the eight-year mark of implementing massive broadband grant programs—innovative in their scale and complexity—to address rural broadband gaps and create new economic opportunities. These programs are delivering value not only for unserved homes and businesses, but also for institutions such as universities, public safety agencies, rural hospitals, and other critical parts of the broader economic and community fabric in the state of Alabama.

Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1. Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech. She currently serves as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco.