April 2026 US Tech Policy Roundup

President of the Republic of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema addressing the crowd. Source: Hakainde Hichilema/Facebook.

President of the Republic of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema. Source: 

Scrutinizing Zambia's New Cyber Law Regime in the Shadow of RightsCon

Lord James Timpson, UK Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation (right) with Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood at London Probation Headquarters on February 12, 2025. (Press Association via AP Images)

The UK’s Sentencing Act Leaves the Door Open for Big Tech to Build Digital Prisons

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Source

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. 

AI Hype and the Capture of EU AI Regulation

UK’s Online Safety Push Pits Expectations Versus Reality

People line up before the opening of the polling stations to cast their ballot in the general elections in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

How African Governments Use Information Control to Shape Election Outcomes

A collage-style illustration featuring a detailed black ink drawing of a human eye with a thick, sketched eyebrow above it. The eye is layered over overlapping geometric shapes: a teal-green splattered rectangle in the background, red and dark red halftone dot patterns in squares, and irregular black silhouette shapes along the edges. The composition has a mixed-media, pop-art aesthetic combining hand-drawn illustration with graphic design elements.

A Landscape Survey of Private Digital Credentials

Teresa Ribera, executive vice president of the European Commission for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, speaks during a European Parliament plenary session on the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act on April 28, 2026. © European Union / Source: EP © European Union 2026 - Source : EP

Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, speaks during a European Parliament plenary session on the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act on April 28, 2026. © European Union / Source: EP © European Union 2026 - Source : EP

What the EU's First Digital Markets Act Review Actually Changes

Felix Mutati, MP, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science, in a 2025 photo. Earlier this week, Mutati announced the government would seek to ‘postpone’ RightsCon just days before it was set to begin. 

Felix Mutati, MP, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science, in a 2025 

 the government would seek to ‘postpone’ RightsCon just days before it was set to begin. 

RightsCon Canceled After Zambia Requires ‘Full Alignment’ With 'National Values'

Icons representing surveillance and espionage.

SCOTUS’s Signals in Chatrie and on the Potential Limits of Location Tracking

The US Is Fighting for Control of AI. It Would Be Better Off Building Standards.

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. 

EU Intensifies Child Safety Enforcement, Flags Gaps in Meta Age Checks

Illustration of surveillance eyes looking at a mobile phone

How Little We Know About Spyware Makers' Government Ties

A digital collage showing electronic waste made of discarded batteries, hillside settlements, terraced farmland, and a detailed indigenous textile pattern. Yellow bounding boxes with red "XXXXX" labels loosely overlay the pictures, suggesting algorithmic image detection.

Digital Sovereignty Means Breaking the Western Monopoly on AI Meaning

An image of a person holding a phone with an emergency warning alert alarm.

Supreme Court Examines Constitutionality of Police Accessing Cellphone Location Data

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seventh left, poses for photographs with chief executive officers of various AI groups during the AI Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (Indian Prime Minister's Office via AP)

A Multilingual Paradigm for AI Created by All, for All

A Counterproposal to Google's Approach to Anonymizing Search Data

Visitors during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Ravi Choudhary/PTI via AP)

AI’s English Problem—and Why We Should Care

September 3, 2025, Berlin: Activists from the Campact organization stand in front of the German Federal Chancellery during an action against the use of the Palantir spying software. (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Palantir’s ‘Manifesto’ and the Digital Sovereignty of Other Nations

Private Investors are Steering Europe's AI Race

A gig worker in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is seen taking a selfie in 2021. (Ettore Chiereguini / AGIF via AP)

Data Work Is Too Secretive. Big Tech Should be Held Accountable.

Ghost Sharks, Robo-Dogs, and the Theater of Border Technologies

UK Seeks More Powers Under Online Safety Act to Tackle AI Harms

Hundreds of nurses and supporters march through midtown Manhattan on Day 26 of the New York State Nurses Association strike, Feb. 6. (Photo by Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP)

The Nurses Union Breaking Ranks to Fight AI in Hospitals

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