dezembro 2024

Tweet … is from page viii of Douglas Irwin’s 2012 book, Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s: The worst nightmare of every trade economist is that, in the midst of an economic crisis, policymakers might be tempted to return to the autarkic, beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism of the Great Depression. Such a move, it is feared, could easily spin out of control, with countries retaliating against one another in a race to close their markets to foreign goods. Not […]

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The opening and closing months of 2024 saw federal enforcement against a number of location data brokers that track and sell users’ whereabouts through apps installed on their smartphones. In January, the Federal Trade Commission brought successful enforcement actions against X-Mode Social and InMarket, banning the companies from selling precise location data—a first prohibition of this kind for the FTC. And in December, the FTC widened its net to two additional companies—Gravy Analytics (Venntel) and Mobilewalla—barring them from […]

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This year, nearly half of U.S. states passed laws imposing age verification requirements on online platforms. EFF has opposed these efforts, because they censor the internet and burden access to online speech. Though age verification mandates are often touted as “online safety” measures for kids, the laws actually do more harm than good. They undermine the fundamental speech rights of adults and young people alike, create new barriers to internet access, and put at risk all internet users’ […]

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There’s no part of your life now where you can avoid the onslaught of “artificial intelligence.” Whether you’re trying to search for a recipe and sifting through AI-made summaries or listening to your cousin talk about how they’ve fired their doctor and replaced them with a chatbot, it seems now, more than ever, that AI is the solution to every problem. But, in the meantime, some people are getting hideously rich by convincing people with money and influence […]

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Mark Thornton looks forward to 2025—and a little bit backwards at 2024—and projects what we might see in the coming new year.

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