Platform censorship results from centralized design. Cryptocurrency techies are building decentralized alternatives. If you want to build cryptocurrency applications, there are few better places to be than Miami these days. Set aside the great weather and established financial industry for a moment. By moving to Florida, fintech firms can not only enjoy [...]
Some of them like the stock, but all of them think our financial system is broken How perfect is it that GameStop of all things is what is revealing the cracks in our capital markets to the masses? Many of us found ourselves fielding confused communiqués from loved ones about just why [...]
As I was gathering my notes to review New Money: How Payment Became Social Media in a Google Doc, I was distracted by a ping from my connected Gmail account. Apparently, my Chase Freedom Unlimited card had not yet been upgraded to contactless technology—just wave your card over the terminal, no need [...]
Governments often tell their subjects that they must submit to surveillance programs to stay safe. Whether the boogeyman is terrorism, hate, or even health, government snooping on private data often violates our rights to privacy. But surveillance programs are unsafe on their own. Securing major sets of sensitive personal data [...]
STATEMENT RELEASE: Nathan Simington Confirmed to the Federal Communications Commission Statement from The James Madison Institute on Nathan Simington’s Confirmation to the Federal Communications Commission: We would like to congratulate Nathan Simington on his recent confirmation as the newest FCC Commissioner. We look forward to working with Commissioner Simington to [...]
Click here to read the 2021 Policy Priorities PDF. 2021 JMI Policy Priorities Back on Track It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to suggest that “nobody saw 2020 coming.” In a year in which the impeachment of the President of the United States (in an election year) was not even in [...]
By: Andrea O'Sullivan September 29, 2020 Did you know that major communications companies monitor all conversations to report suspicious activities to the government? By law, companies that facilitate the transfer of information are required to file what is called a "Suspicious Activity Report" (SAR) anytime a conversation veers in a [...]
July 14, 2020 By: Andrea O'Sullivan The Western satellite of Hong Kong had a great run. Two decades resisting the authority of an empowered and modern Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is nothing to sneeze at. But with last month's passing of the National Security Law (NSL), which aims to clamp down [...]
June 23, 2020 Fox Business' Neil Cavuto hosts JMI's Director of Tech and Innovation, Andrea O'Sullivan, on Coast to Coast regarding potential big tech relocation to Florida. Fox Business cites statistics on the increasing prevalence of tech workers in the San Francisco region who aim to relocate in [...]
By: Andrea O'Sullivan June 23, 2020 We are often told that law enforcement must have a way to get around strong encryption technologies in order to catch bad guys. Such a "backdoor" into security techniques would only be used when necessary and would be closely guarded so it would [...]
