Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mww4gvkeph2kTo get ahead of EU mandates and alleviate pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, the biggest cloud service providers started offering fee exemptions for customers looking to exit their cloud. It has had little practical effect on competition, argue Luke Hogg and Sophia Bulla. https://buff.ly/8LasQ7A02 Oct 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mww4gvkeph2khttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvtkksyvq23"Adults are harmed when their data is leaked, but kids suffer more," writes Logan Kolas of the American Consumer Institute, arguing that age verification laws meant to protect children could put America "on a collision course with its newly discovered AI-augmented cybersecurity reality." https://buff.ly/VlfmFkY02 Oct 2026 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvtkksyvq23https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvq7d6uui2gA Senate Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on "rogue" AI agents centered on the Hugging Face incident, in which OpenAI agents accessed Hugging Face systems without authorization, and the "race" with China. Yuqing Liu was in the room. https://buff.ly/dsFx9QD02 Oct 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvq7d6uui2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvjdejezu2jDaniel Stone examines the OpenAI agent incident in Australia: "84 days, almost three months, from the first access to the warning being raised." He calls for enforceable rules, prompt notice, access to logs and a way to recover costs. https://buff.ly/w6lxCia02 Oct 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvjdejezu2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwviw5c6aj2uThe September US tech policy roundup from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press tracks Trump’s order on using the term “super intelligence” to AI safety pledges, stalled bills in Congress, state action, key court rulings and more. https://buff.ly/VvxEyTM02 Oct 2026 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwviw5c6aj2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwviojiujb2s"Someone has to care to make things happen," Francine Berman writes in Better Tech, new from MIT Press. Reviewing the book, Nathan Sanders of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center says readers will come away "newly equipped with specific ideas and modes of action to make change." https://buff.ly/HFSMbyT02 Oct 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwviojiujb2shttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvijopip52sIn their September roundup, Maria Buza and Şeymanur Yönt Gökcen of Digital Policy Alert track G20 developments in content moderation, AI, competition and data governance, including the European Commission's proposed KIDS Act and Ireland's €403 million fine against Google. https://buff.ly/2fOxQxV02 Oct 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvijopip52shttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvhz5cbqr2xBrazil's platform rules have focused on harms from commercial platforms. João Alexandre Peschanski of Wikimedia Brasil, Amalia Toledo of the Wikimedia Foundation and Elise Silva of the University of Pittsburgh argue digital public goods like Wikipedia need their own legal category. https://buff.ly/K0pT0bW02 Oct 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvhz5cbqr2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvfsprbeq2mTaiwanese elections are flooded with information manipulation from China, yet Taiwan’s deepfake law has remained entirely unused for three years. Eddy Yen-Ting Lin argues that the law should be reformed to protect free speech and democracy. https://buff.ly/M9C7vEp02 Oct 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvfsprbeq2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwve4uqemr2gEconomic violence against women through the use of digital IDs is a growing, rarely recognized problem in Denmark and across Europe, reports Polina Bachlakova. https://buff.ly/sL3iZfh02 Oct 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwve4uqemr2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwve3wxsyn26Russia's new AI law borrows the vocabulary of contemporary AI regulation but uses it to combine industrial policy with technological control, write Dmitry Kuteynikov and Lyubov Popovets. https://buff.ly/6MhUpwa02 Oct 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwve3wxsyn26https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwve3g6dpo22Grab drivers in Vietnam staged a two-day app boycott last month over commission rates. Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le reports on what happened, and what it reveals about the changing politics of platform work in Southeast Asia. https://buff.ly/110E16Z02 Oct 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwve3g6dpo22https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwvcs5rxrg2gTech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix talks with danah boyd, author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, about how the 2020 census came together amid fractured politics and a pandemic, and what it means for the next one. https://buff.ly/r1Nn6FU02 Oct 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvcs5rxrg2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwuyqax7rx2sThe term artificial intelligence (and yes, the term ‘super intelligence’ too) actively distorts our cognitive understanding, misdirects public concern, and derails legal and policy frameworks, says Amber Sinha, contributing editor at Tech Policy Press. https://buff.ly/mh8BaCY02 Oct 2026 08:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuyqax7rx2shttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwuyj5d43t2tChinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen are gaining ground with developers in Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria, not because of geopolitics, but because they are cheaper and more flexible. Information Society Law Center's Melissa Ninsiima on the strategic consequences that follow. https://buff.ly/h92Owoa02 Oct 2026 08:50 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuyj5d43t2thttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwuhxtc3wz2sTech Policy Press rounds up what non-Western governments said about AI at the UN last week, from calls for a greater role in shaping the rules to warnings that slowing AI must not deepen the digital divide. https://buff.ly/DuLPhms02 Oct 2026 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuhxtc3wz2shttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwudcb3fuo23The remedies in the Google ad tech case "stopped well short of actually preventing future abuses of monopoly power," writes Public Knowledge senior policy advocate Patrick Gallaher, who argues the ruling shows the need for the bipartisan AMERICA Act. https://buff.ly/Nto0FtW02 Oct 2026 02:30 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwudcb3fuo23https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwtx7fnrhq2uAustralia's draft Digital Duty of Care is "a welcome and necessary reform," but its public pitch as an off switch for 'the algorithm' misses the point, write Queensland University of Technology's Daniel Angus and Jean Burgess and Western Sydney University's Amanda Third. https://buff.ly/zlyAnZL01 Oct 2026 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtx7fnrhq2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwtmoechsk25The Privacy Center at Georgetown Law and Tech Policy Press are launching "The Edge Dialogues" on Oct. 22, featuring special guest Dr. Alondra Nelson. No "AI governance" buzzwords. Just urgent conversations about power, labor, war, justice, privacy, art, community and human consciousness. Join us! https://luma.com/kb9ypim101 Oct 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtmoechsk25https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwtlxyxglt26Gil Durán says his book "The Nerd Reich" is about "a cult of apocalyptic billionaires who believe it is their destiny to end democracy." He joined Tech Policy Press CEO and editor Justin Hendrix and Alice Marwick of Data & Society at an event hosted at Betaworks in New York City to discuss the book. https://buff.ly/iMhC7Ei01 Oct 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtlxyxglt26https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwtd3pa72u2gIs KOSA the "social reckoning" we're looking for? Not quite, argues Karolina Mackiewicz of GW's Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP): "A true social reckoning calls for standards that prioritize safety over engagement, without sacrificing anyone's privacy, agency, or free expression." https://buff.ly/cDkkctF01 Oct 2026 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtd3pa72u2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwtacdjrys26To get ahead of EU mandates and alleviate pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, the biggest cloud service providers started offering fee exemptions for customers looking to exit their cloud. It has had little practical effect on competition, argue Luke Hogg and Sophia Bulla. https://buff.ly/8LasQ7A01 Oct 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtacdjrys26https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwt7qebhor26A survivor of social media addiction and mental health crises, Maddie Freeman created a youth-led movement to help teens detox from tech. She says Meta’s settlement deal does not address the root causes of the harms she experienced. https://buff.ly/mOVm6YB01 Oct 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt7qebhor26https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwt745f7gd2g"Adults are harmed when their data is leaked, but kids suffer more," writes Logan Kolas of the American Consumer Institute, arguing that age verification laws meant to protect children could put America "on a collision course with its newly discovered AI-augmented cybersecurity reality." https://buff.ly/VlfmFkY01 Oct 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt745f7gd2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwt24angf722A Senate Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on "rogue" AI agents centered on the Hugging Face incident, in which OpenAI agents accessed Hugging Face systems without authorization, and the "race" with China. Yuqing Liu was in the room. https://buff.ly/dsFx9QD01 Oct 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt24angf722https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwsywpo5jk26Daniel Stone of Diffusion.Au examines the OpenAI agent incident in Australia: "84 days, almost three months, from the first access to the warning being raised." He calls for enforceable rules, prompt notice, access to logs and a way to recover costs. https://buff.ly/w6lxCia01 Oct 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsywpo5jk26https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwsyuipfkc2xPalantir has hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson ahead of a December government decision on a break clause that could end its £330 million role in the NHS's data platform. Foxglove's Martha Dark writes that his "new position contrasts starkly with his public views a decade ago." https://buff.ly/k2WiXKs01 Oct 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsyuipfkc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwsvdrwknn2sThe choice for Europe is not between regulating and building. It is between continuing to set rules for infrastructure that others operate, and acquiring the capacity to operate infrastructure whose rules Europe sets and can change, writes Nicholas Gates. https://buff.ly/bith10501 Oct 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsvdrwknn2shttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwstd7gg2d2lTaiwan's deepfake law was designed to protect elections. It has never once been used. Eddy Yen-Ting Lin breaks down three fatal flaws—and draws lessons for others. https://buff.ly/M9C7vEp01 Oct 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwstd7gg2d2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.social/post/3mwssdan72u2gDays before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian journalist Laís Martins reports. https://buff.ly/rsn0hY301 Oct 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:k3sjdodbk2cofbfzxucculeb/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwssdan72u2g