Rebecca Klar

The return of Obama-era net neutrality rules is temporarily halted through the beginning of next month, according to a court of appeals order released Friday.   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Si…

Welcome to The Hill’s Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story AI’s growing energy demand derails Big Tech climate goals As major technology companies race to take advantage of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, the energy-guzzling technology is derailing their efforts to rein in emissions and become carbon neutral or negative. © Nathan…

Welcome to The Hill’s Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Kids online safety bills to get vote in Senate, Schumer says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will bring two bipartisan bills aimed at boosting online safety and privacy for kids to a vote this week after mounting pressure from advocates. © Getty Schumer announced…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders for eight companies to provide information about surveillance pricing as it seeks to study the potential impacts such practices have on privacy, competition and consumer protection, the agency said Tuesday. The FTC issued orders to Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, Chase, Task Software, PROS, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co. The eight companies advertise their use of artificial intelligence and other technologies, along with real-time customer i…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will bring two bipartisan bills aimed at boosting online safety and privacy for kids to a vote this week after mounting pressure from advocates, Schumer’s office said Tuesday. Schumer will announce the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2.0 will be brought to the floor this week during a floor speech Tuesday, the leader’s office said. Children’s online safety advocates, including teens and parents o…

In her fight to represent victims “under attack by stalkers, pervs, a‑‑holes and trolls,” Carrie Goldberg says the work is personal. “I fall in love with cases the way that people fall in love with other people,” said Goldberg, an attorney and author of the book “Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls.” And when that work involves taking on massive corporations and tech companies, it can “also lead to a lot of heartbreak,” she told The Hill. Goldberg is the founding at…

The Senate set in motion a path for a vote on two bills to boost kids’ online safety and privacy, with a broad bipartisan vote Thursday to end debate on the legislation. The Senate voted 86-1 on Thursday to invoke cloture, or limit debate, on the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2.0. The vote tees up a final passage for the bipartisan bills likely to take place next week and followed years of mounting pressure for Congress to put guardrai…

Welcome to The Hill’s Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Senate tees up vote on KOSA, COPPA 2.0 for next week The Senate set in motion a path for a vote on two bills to boost kids’ online safety and privacy, with a broad bipartisan vote Thursday to end debate on…

The Senate voted to pass two bills aimed at boosting safety and privacy for kids online in a broad bipartisan vote Tuesday after months of mounting pressure from advocates. The Kids Online Safety A…

Congress wasn’t short of partisan debates this year, but Julissa Walsh wishes more Americans knew how much collaboration is happening across the aisle.   Walsh is the general counsel on the Ho…