Policy & Regulation

Stories tagged policy & regulation.

EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central21 Aug, 00:00
EdSurge Welcomes Top Journalists and Educators to Advisory Board(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Bringing together award-winning reporters and leading educators, the board will provide strategic guidance on newsroom priorities and emerging issues ...
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now20 Aug, 23:17
Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Brazil's new internet intermediary liability regime is underway. The implementation of changes established by the Supreme Court includes notice and takedown mechanisms and duty of care obligations. Caution is crucial as these measures can create problematic incentives for enforcement overreach and…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News20 Aug, 17:10
Clio Grows Clio Grow with Launch of Grow AI, Providing 24/7 Intake Agents(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product. Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.” The product targets a problem documented by…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News20 Aug, 13:00
NetDocuments Adds Tabular Review and Automatic Extraction of Legal Authorities to Its Platform(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The document management company NetDocuments today announced two additions to its platform’s AI capabilities. One, Tabular Review, is a tool that lets users analyze collections of documents in a structured table. The other, Legal Authorities, automatically extracts case citations from documents as…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central20 Aug, 00:00
Department of Education Issues Long-Awaited Edtech Guidance for States and Districts(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The letter emphasizes outcomes and evidence but stops short of issuing federal regulations.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now19 Aug, 22:23
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News19 Aug, 19:07
Law Practice Management Company Smokeball Unveils New Global Brand Built Around ‘Powering People-Law’(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. — that stands for the proposition that a company has a duty to deliver on its promises? It is fitting, then, that Smokeball is today unveiling a new global brand…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now19 Aug, 16:35
📍 The Sneaky Code Tracking App Users | EFFector 38.15(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Your location isn't just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billion dollar industry. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering a new EFF…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central19 Aug, 00:00
Assignments, Invoices, and the AI Fix(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
On This Week with EdSurge, searching to see where artificial intelligence quietly adds up.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central19 Aug, 00:00
The Case Against the Classroom Cellphone Crackdown(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Instead of banning the technology, schools have an opportunity to promote digital citizenship and student engagement.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now18 Aug, 23:23
Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early. In California v. Meta, a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that the lower court’s denial of Section 230 immunity to Meta is not immediately appealable. The misguided…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now18 Aug, 22:39
Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous…
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement18 Aug, 17:15
SEC Proposes New Regulation Crypto Assets
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it proposed new rules, titled “Regulation Crypto Assets,” that would create a clear and fit-for-purpose framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets. This proposal follows…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-76-sec-pro…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News18 Aug, 17:00
Clio Docket Is Now In Clio Work, Combining An AI Workspace with Access to More Than 1 Billion Court Filings(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket. Now, Clio is making Clio Docket…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb18 Aug, 08:23
Les 15 000 entreprises qui découvriront NIS 2 après le vote(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
La directive NIS 2 est entrée dans le droit européen en décembre 2022. Pourtant, des milliers d’organisations françaises n’ont toujours pas mesuré ce qu’elle implique pour elles. Entre la transposition nationale en cours et les sanctions qui peuvent atteindre 2 % du chiffre d’affaires mondial, le…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central18 Aug, 00:00
Early Childhood Educators Are Leveling Up at Community Colleges(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Research reveals little to no penalty from employers for teachers who earn four-year degrees at community colleges instead of universities.
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News17 Aug, 15:57
Having Already Launched A Claude Connector, Trellis Extends AI Access to Its Court Data with ChatGPT Plugin and Its Own Chat Tool(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded agentic AI access to its data with a new plugin for OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a native assistant called Trellis Chat, both of which are in addition to the Trellis MCP connector for Claude that the company…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News17 Aug, 13:44
Work Done In Harvey Now Creates Time Entries In Aderant’s iTimekeep, Thanks To New Integration(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep. That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies. With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the two products so that work done…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central17 Aug, 00:00
College Admissions Testing is Returning to Mixed Reactions(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Supporters argue that reinstating SAT and ACT test requirements better vet student readiness.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now13 Aug, 20:52
Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology, has rolled out a handful of new reforms intended to appease the justified nationwide anger that has seen scores of towns cancel or suspend their contracts with the company for automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The reforms…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News13 Aug, 13:00
DeepJudge Releases an Open Protocol for Passing Users – and Their Context – Between AI Products, with Harvey and Thomson Reuters On Board(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
DeepJudge, the Zurich-based enterprise search company that describes itself as the institutional intelligence platform for legal AI, today introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol designed to let users move from one AI product into another – and, in some cases, back again – while…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central13 Aug, 00:00
On AI Policy, Students Have Plenty to Say(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
At a gathering in Boston, ‘student senators’ proposed a first-of-its-kind national AI policy for K-12 classrooms.
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News12 Aug, 17:47
LawNext: LexisNexis CTO Greg Dickason On Building Legal AI In Real Time with Customers in Its New Innovation Lab(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in real time. The company is…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News12 Aug, 14:00
Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI for Lawyers, But You’ll Have to Wait Awhile to Chat with It(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language questions across an entire RelativityOne matter and get back answers with citations to the underlying record. Relativity CEO Phil Saunders calls it a fundamentally new way for lawyers to…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central12 Aug, 00:00
Supporting Early Childhood Educators(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The guests on this episode of This Week with EdSurge say good tools fail without good follow-through.
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central12 Aug, 00:00
The K-12 Silo Won’t Survive AI — But Our Relationships Might(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
I left my school to ask tech executives how to prepare students for the future.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now11 Aug, 20:24
Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF?(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on donation and shop items, have been created with AI image generators. We’d like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policy regarding image creation. EFF images are all made…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News11 Aug, 17:00
Universal Migrator helps aggressive startups onboard customers quicker(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
For ambitious software startups, winning a new customer is only the beginning. The next challenge is getting that customer fully operational before delays, technical complications, or a difficult data migration undermine the relationship. Universal Migrator helps fast-moving startups accelerate…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News11 Aug, 12:42
Ken Crutchfield: When AI Models Become Commodities — What Open-Weight AI Could Mean For LegalTech(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
We are rapidly approaching budget season and planning for contingencies in 2027. Perhaps open-weight models should be part of your fall planning. Last year, DeepSeek created a scare for the American AI industry when it created a model that cost a fraction to develop relative to its U.S…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now11 Aug, 00:00
Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian government could stop you from using the word “Canada” in the title of a book about the country and its people. That wouldn’t just be absurd; it would be an unacceptable obstacle to…