Foundry fellows question the practitioners and scholars of tech law.
Fellows of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry lead these interviews, questioning attorneys, academics and in-house privacy leads. The conversations range from why fragmented data laws complicate product design to how the opinions in FSC v. Paxton disagree over precedent.
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Tech Policy Grind is the interview podcast of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, and what sets it apart most is who asks the questions. The interviewer changes from episode to episode, and each one is a Foundry fellow. Victoria Ferrari and Jarek Lim introduce themselves as members of the seventh cohort. Justice Shannon, of the sixth, leads the conversations with Professor Eric Goldman and Dr. Jennifer King, and Daniela Guzman-Peña and Evan Enzer take others. Episodes typically open the same way: the fellow names the Foundry, then often hands over to the guest for a self-introduction. What follows is a working conversation between someone from the Foundry's next-generation network and someone already doing the work. Cross-border data is one strand. Amanda Molina, an attorney and associate general counsel, treats the patchwork of national rules as a product design problem. If a company builds to the strictest global standard, its product may lose ground to local competitors who face no such limits. If it builds a separate version for each jurisdiction, the engineering splinters and opens more attack vectors. Darren Grayson Chng, who directs data protection across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa for Electrolux, comes at the same problem from the compliance side. He notes that a company applying one standard such as GDPR has an easier time than one trying to satisfy every country's law separately, and that promising to keep citizens' data at home plays well with voters. Age verification is another strand. Professor Eric Goldman, introduced as an expert on First Amendment law and Internet policy, takes the FSC v. Paxton opinions apart and argues the court should have treated online and offline age checks as functionally different. Dr. Jennifer King tries out alternatives: a third-party credential along the lines of PreCheck, perhaps a rotating cryptographic key, anything but another single identifier like a phone number. She admits the engineering is outside her expertise and asks the tech sector to come up with solutions. Competition law comes in through Joe Jerome of DuckDuckGo and the DOJ's antitrust case against Google. That conversation covers Perplexity's complaints about Google's warning banners, which some call dark patterns, and reporting that signals from Chrome feed into search. It also includes pushback on the idea, arguing that breaking up Google is partly about the headline. Careers get space too. Evan Enzer's conversation with Pedro Pavone, a lawyer and policy advocate focused on privacy at Meta, covers diversity in privacy and tech policy and how the company has tried to learn from past mistakes. For a first listen, 'Data Without Borders: The Patchwork Problem of a Connected World' and 'S6E3: Cross-border data flows with Darren Grayson Chng' work well as a pair, looking at one problem from two professional seats. Anyone tracking age-verification law can go straight to 'S6E1: FSC v Paxton with Prof. Eric Goldman'.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants tech law explained through the tradeoffs working professionals face, such as building one product for many privacy regimes or designing age checks without adding another reusable identifier. Also fits someone weighing a career in tech law and policy who wants to hear how people in the field describe their work.
What sets it apart: Episodes are led by different fellows of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, so each conversation pairs an emerging professional with a practitioner or scholar. The guests speak from inside the work, from a data protection director at Electrolux to a privacy-focused lawyer at Meta.
On the Tech Policy Grind Podcast, we discuss the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. We chat with friends and fellows of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry about their perspectives on emerging topics in tech law and policy. From AI to cybersecurity, internet governance, privacy, and more - join us weekly to dig into the latest in tech policy!The Tech Policy Grind was created by Fellows from the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. The Foundry is a collaborative organization for Internet law and policy professionals who are passionate about disruptive innovation.Reema Moussa is our host and executive producer. Evan Enzer is our editor, Daniela Guzman Peña produces the…
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A grounded look at how border rules reshape products, architecture, and AI privacy.
Cross-border data transfers come through here as a product-design issue, not just a legal one. Victoria Ferrari’s conversation with Amanda Molina looks at how AI, privacy, and policy pressures can force companies to decide whether to build jurisdiction-specific products or hold…
A grounded look at how fragmented data laws turn into translation, legal analysis, and compliance work across 36 markets.
Cross-border data rules can seem remote until Tech Policy Grind follows the work across 36 markets. A regional data protection director at Electrolux shows how fragmented privacy regimes become translation, legal-system research, and the slower task of turning rules into daily…
A measured look at age checks, privacy-preserving credentials, and who gets to shape the system.
Age assurance is framed as a privacy problem, as Justice Shannon asks Dr. Jen King how online services could verify age without leaning on one reusable identifier.
A dense but useful First Amendment discussion of online age authentication, precedent, and the stakes of treating digital and offline age checks alike.
Tech Policy Grind frames FSC v. Paxton as a First Amendment fight over online age authentication, with Justice Shannon guiding Professor Eric Goldman through the majority-dissent split, the court's treatment of online and offline age checks, and the force of earlier…
A focused look at why Google's browser and search products may be hard to separate.
Tech Policy Grind turns the DOJ's proposed Chrome selloff remedy into a grounded question: how do people actually reach the web? The episode ties Judge Amit P.
Washington’s tech fights, explained with precision.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
["Amanda Molina says cross-border data transfers happen every time cloud apps, streaming services, or ad platforms move user data across borders, and she frames the issue as power over information.", "She contrasts the EU's GDPR, the U.S.
Tech Policy Grind pairs Jarek Lim with Darren Cheung, Electrolux's Regional Data Protection Director for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and a former Singapore PDPC policymaker, to unpack cross-border data flows.
["Tech Policy Grind S6E2 pairs Justice Shannon with Dr.
["Tech Policy Grind talks with Professor Eric Goldman about FSC v.
Joe Jerome says Google gathers in 13.5 months the amount of search information Bing would need 17 years to match, and he uses that gap to explain why the DOJ's Chrome and Android remedies matter.
Tech Policy Grind host Evan Enzer interviews Meta privacy and fairness policy advocate Pedro Pavone about responsible technology, career transitions, and diversity in privacy work.
Daniela Guzman-Peña hosts two conversations on responsible technology design, featuring Aishwarya Vardhana of Wikimedia Foundation and Harley Geiger of Venable.
Tech Policy Grind revisits State of the Net 2024 with Heather West and Charlie Snyder on AI’s cybersecurity uses, including Google’s report that generative-AI incident summaries made response teams about 50% faster.
Tech Policy Grind examines NetChoice v.
Tech Policy Grind host Caitlin Ringrose interviews ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley about aerial surveillance, drones, privacy, and free expression.
Tech Policy Grind's State of the Net Live 2024 episode brings together Daniela Guzman Peña, Jameson Spivak, Colin Crowell, and Nicole Saad-Vembridge on neurotechnology, internet geopolitics, and online expression.
Reema Musa, Lama Muhammad, and Mary Bagdasarian review nearly two years as Internet Law and Policy Foundry fellows in the final Tech Policy Grind episode of Class Four.
Reema Musa recounts her path from international law interests in Geneva to cybersecurity, privacy, AI, trust and safety, and internet governance.
Tech Policy Grind hosts Reema Musa, Keir Lamont, and Divya Sridhar review U.S.
Reema Musa hosts Noah Katz, Angelique Carson, and Nicole Dove for a discussion of producing privacy, security, and tech-policy podcasts.
Reema Musa interviews Marcela Mattiuzzo and Nathalie Fragoso of VMCA Advogados about Brazil's LGPD, ANPD enforcement, and the country's emerging AI regulatory framework.
Katie Harbath of AnchorChange distinguishes misinformation from disinformation by whether the person sharing false content knows it is fake.
Zia Muhammad, an Amazon product manager for AWS Quantum, explains how quantum processing units differ from CPUs and GPUs and why current systems remain research-based.
Dylan Brown Bramble, a Class 4 Internet Law and Policy Foundry fellow and New York associate, describes his path into technology law through Georgetown’s Tech Institute and Tech Law Scholars Program.
Reema Musa hosts Evan Enzer, Adani Washington of the Future of Privacy Forum, and Andrea Amico of Privacy for Cars on connected-vehicle data practices.
Caitlin Ringrose interviews Coben Zweifel-Keegan and Vinny DiGilio about protecting sexual-orientation and gender-identity data in queer online spaces.
Reema Musa interviews Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies and a Duke data-brokerage researcher, about how companies collect and sell personal information.
Grant Versfeld, a threat intelligence engineer at a major tech company, describes moving from computer science and cybersecurity into public-interest cyber policy.
Tech Policy Grind host Reema Musa introduces Rebecca Kilburg's interview with Harvard Library digital-preservation head Stephen Abrams about maintaining digital collections for future use.
Gina Valdatero, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's U.S.
Tech Policy Grind features David Morar, a senior policy analyst at New America’s Open Technology Institute, discussing his path from Romania and international-affairs study into internet governance.
Justin P’ng describes his move from international relations at the University of Toronto and human-rights work into privacy and cybersecurity law at Fask & Martineau Dumoulin.
Tech Policy Grind's Policy Hackathon panel brings together Jihao Chen, Amber Ezell, and Juhi Kouraya to examine how AI systems used in housing, credit, hiring, and public services can reproduce historical discrimination.
Reema Musa interviews All Tech is Human founder David Bridenpolgar about responsible technology, civic participation, and building a community around tech ethics.
Tech Policy Grind host Lama Muhammad speaks with Glen Echo Group's Christopher Shannon and Kieran Henstenberg about guardrails for generative AI in creative work.
Tech Policy Grind's Alvaro Maranian moderates Hodan Omaar, Charlie Snyder, and Jillian Dybald on AI applications in cybersecurity, education, and public policy.
Tech Policy Grind host Reema Musa interviews Professor Eric Goldman about decentralized social media, content moderation, and internet law after Elon Musk’s October 2022 acquisition of Twitter.
Tech Policy Grind's AI-and-intellectual-property webinar examines how generative AI training data, outputs, and human authorship fit within copyright law.
Allison McReynolds traces her path from a college paper on cyberattacks by non-state actors to Hill work on telecommunications and net neutrality.
Tech Policy Grind’s “Artificial Intelligence 101” brings Reema Musa, Dylan Bramble, Michaela Mantegna, Dr.
Pamela San Martín, a Mexican lawyer and former electoral counselor, explains how the independent Oversight Board reviews Meta’s content decisions using international human rights standards.
Tech Policy Grind host Joe Catapano interviews ICANN interim president and CEO Sally Kosterton about whether internet governance can preserve an open, secure, and interoperable internet as multistakeholder models face pressure.
On Tech Policy Grind, Mary Bagdasarian interviews Aidan Ferdeline about internet governance, his Landecker Democracy Fellowship, and the United Nations Global Digital Compact.
Tech Policy Grind host Rima Musa interviews former Meta engineer Tal Habeg about generative AI, misinformation, trust and safety, and the Integrity Institute.
Ellen Magallanes, Senior Counsel on the Wikimedia Foundation’s privacy team, discusses moving from Australia into technology law and policy after working at a difficult five-person tech company.
Ashkin Kazaryan describes moving from Russia and an academic family to U.S.
Tech Policy Grind host Rima Musa interviews Kirk Nahra of WilmerHale and Jordan Wrigley of the Future of Privacy Forum about health privacy after Dobbs v.
Rima Musa reports from ICANN76 in Cancun, WICS 2023 in Denver, and the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C.
Lama Mohammed describes how Mark Zuckerberg's Cambridge Analytica testimony led her from interdisciplinary studies at American University toward tech policy.
Tech Policy Grind's S4E03 introduces new Internet Law and Policy Foundry fellows Akene and Lili through their backgrounds, fellowship motivations, and first experiences at the Foundry kickoff and State of the Net.
Tech Policy Grind's State of the Net conversations examine child privacy, digital safety, and Section 230 with Natalie Campbell, Matt Perrault, and Yael Eisenstadt.
Tech Policy Grind records conversations from the March 6, 2023 State of the Net conference with Alan Davidson, Bertram Lee Jr., and Patrick Lin.
Tech Policy Grind examines whether the United States should restrict TikTok, with Adam Kovacevich of Chamber of Progress and Carl Szabo of NetChoice debating ByteDance's Chinese ownership, data access, and propaganda risks.