Press Releases

In response to the European Commission’s proposal to create a so-called “28th regime” for Europe, ITIF released the following statement from Stephen Ezell, vice president of global innovation policy.

The discussion draft is less a legislative foundation for governing AI and more a mood board for a set of long-standing grievances with Big Tech. The backronym is strained, but the policy is even worse—forcing together weak ideas to advance a political agenda rather than meaningfully solving a policy problem.

California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s proposed BASED Act will not benefit competition in California and appears to be a textbook example of capture by commercial interests hostile to America’s leading tech firms, which appear to be the sole targets of the legislation.

Following the UK government’s Copyright and AI report, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Policy Analyst Matthew Kilcoyne.

New ITIF research warns rural patients face a double disadvantage on Alzheimer’s: higher risk and weaker access to early diagnosis, even as new tools could help close the gap.

Government of Canada’s proposal to require service providers to provide law enforcement access to encrypted communications would irreversibly undermine encryption for Canadian users, putting their financial transactions, communications, and other sensitive data at risk.

In response to President Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens, ITIF issued the following statement from Research Assistant David Kertai.

Following the Senate's unanimous passage of COPPA 2.0 and the House Energy and Commerce Committee's advancement of the KIDS Act, ITIF issued the following statements from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.

Following the release of the 2025 Notorious Markets List by the U.S. Trade Representative, an annual report highlighting marketplaces linked to large-scale copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting, ITIF released the following statements.

South Korea’s decision to allow the conditional export of 1:5,000-scale geospatial data is a constructive step toward aligning its data governance framework with the realities of global digital competition.