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Knowledge Standards in Online Safety and Privacy Legislation

As policymakers consider various proposals for safeguarding younger users online, this article serves as a guide to understanding most commonly used legal knowledge standards. It describes existing kn...
  • Online Safety
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Walmart’s $100 Million FTC Settlement Reveals Its Emerging Fulfillment Empire

When the Federal Trade Commission announced a $100 million settlement with Walmart over deceptive pay practices in its Spark Driver program in late February 2026, the headlines focused on tip theft an...
  • Competition
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ICYMI: CCIA at SatShow 2026 

This March, CCIA participated in the 2026 SatShow programming and external events. With over 14,000 innovators, military decision-makers, and industry professionals from 110+ countries descending on D...
  • Space & Spectrum
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California’s BASED Act Is the Third Installment in a Franchise that Long Ago Lost the Plot

Franchises rarely improve by the third film when the first two already flopped with audiences. Yet that is essentially what California lawmakers are attempting with the BASED Act: a Sacramento-set thi...
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ICYMI: Dark and Quiet Skies at SXSW

This March, CCIA participated in a panel at SXSW to discuss how the commercial space industry has been working with astronomers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to preserve the night sky while en...
  • Space & Spectrum
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Why Digital Services Like Coupang Are Central to the U.S.-Korea Trade Deal

As U.S. and South Korean negotiators work to implement their new trade agreement, policymakers in Washington should be asking a simple but uncomfortable question: is it mathematically possible for the...
  • Trade
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Oliver & Ohlbaum’s attack on UK AI sector research

The strategy consultancy Oliver & Ohlbaum (O&O) has been commissioned by a group of publisher organisations to attack several industry studies (including one commissioned by CCIA) considering ...
  • Artificial Intelligence
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Florida’s HB3 Violates the First Amendment By Singling Out Social Media Sites

Should a state select which websites children can access online in the name of safety and protection, taking that decision out of parents’ hands? Florida’s HB3, a law that was marketed as addressi...
  • Online Safety
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Debate Highlights from Simplify EU Tech Rules: Unlock Innovation

As the EU shapes its digital priorities for 2026, simplifying tech rules remains at the top of the policy debate. Against this backdrop, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Eu...
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How Traditional Retail Found Its Footing and Caught Up With Amazon

In the public discourse of competition policy, few narratives are as persistent as the "entrenched monopolist." The narrative asserts that once a digital platform achieves a certain scale, network eff...
  • Competition
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ICYMI: A Tech Perspective on Navigating EU Space Policy

On February 18, CCIA, in partnership with NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce and the State Department’s Office of Space Affairs Affairs Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific...
  • Space & Spectrum
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What Bank Tellers and Radiologists Can Tell Us about Our Job Security in the AI Era

Every technological revolution brings understandable fears about the imminent obsolescence of human workers’ skills. Today, that alarm has spiked with rapid advances in generative artificial intelli...
  • Innovation Policy