Press Releases

In response to House Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman John Joyce (R-PA) introducing the SECURE Data Act, ITIF issued the following statement from Vice President Daniel Castro.

The failed BASED Act would have imposed European-style antitrust regulations on America’s fiercely competitive technology sector. The California Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee rightly refused to cripple American innovation.

New ITIF analysis finds Detroit lost ground by adapting too slowly, and now faces a similar test from Mexico and China.

Following the European Commission’s announcement that it will soon launch an age verification app for its citizens to prove their age online, ITIF issued the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.

Concerns about the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are widely misdiagnosed, leading to ineffective policy responses, according to a new report from the Center for Data Innovation. Rather than targeting the scale of AI infrastructure, policymakers should modernize how they measure, price, and manage its impact on energy systems and local resources.

If policymakers wind down NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, they should fully redirect those funds to other critical areas like engineering and computer science. Cutting them altogether would weaken the U.S. research enterprise as global competitors accelerate their investments.

Artemis II's successful launch is a win for U.S. space leadership, but keeping that edge will require cutting red tape and expanding launch capacity, says Ellis Scherer.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to forgo a strategic market status investigation into cloud services under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is a prudent step, but it is tainted by its move to investigate Microsoft’s business software under the DMCCA.

In response to the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY14), the Center for Data Innovation issued the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar.

Following a landmark Los Angeles verdict finding Meta and YouTube liable for platform design features that harmed a young user, ITIF released the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Ash Johnson.