Cybersecurity

Policymakers are rushing to regulate AI chatbots. But they should carefully weigh the best approaches to enable safe usage while meaningfully protecting children from harm.

Age assurance should not become a default prerequisite for accessing the Internet, but it can still hold a place in a comprehensive approach to children’s online safety.

Daniel Castro speaks about the importance of accelerating AI adoption in the U.S. economy at the Capitol Hill Conference on AI, Cyber, & Tech Policy Priorities hosted by the Lexington Institute.

Daniel Castro presented on the evolving role of frontier AI firms in international security at an international symposium hosted by the University of International Relations in Beijing.

Watch now for an expert panel discussion on the current state of federal privacy negotiations and the path forward for Congress.

Rather than creating a new funding program for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, Congress should incorporate its funding into the reauthorization of the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. This approach would preserve critical cybersecurity services while improving coordination between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Center for Internet Security.

Watch now for a virtual panel presented by ITIF’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness on what Bill C-22 would actually do, why building in backdoors tends to introduce new security risks rather than contain them, and what a more targeted approach could look like.

ITIF supports applicants seeking to vacate a Fifth Circuit stay that allowed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to immediately enforce Texas’s App Store Accountability Act, a law requiring app stores to implement age-verification and parental consent restrictions.

The National Vulnerability Database is struggling with growing backlogs, outdated processes, and overlapping responsibilities that threaten its effectiveness. NIST should improve coordination with CISA, modernize vulnerability management systems, and strengthen stakeholder engagement to restore trust and efficiency.

Watch the first event in the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness's series of discussions on Canadian tech policy. This discussion examined how Canada should think about sovereignty in cloud and compute, what current proposals get right and wrong, and what a more disciplined approach to digital dependence would look like.