Best Producer Foundry Podcasts (2024)

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Conversations from State of the Net: AI’s Impact on Cybersecurity and the Future of Work [S5E4] 36:40

22d ago36:40

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This week on the Tech Policy Grind, we’re sharing two conversations from State of the Net 2024, the premier internet policy conference that took place in February in Washington, D.C, to discuss the impact of AI on cybersecurity policy and the future of work. Foundry Fellow Sasa Jovanovic and I spoke with Heather West and Charley Snyder on the impac…

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First Amendment Experts Dig Into Supreme Court Cases That Could Change Future of Online Discourse [S5E3] 36:24

2M ago36:24

36:24

This week on the Tech Policy Grind, an expert panel unpacked the two First Amendment cases heard by the Supreme Court last week. In 2021, Florida and Texas introduced laws to prevent social media companies from banning political candidates or censoring content based on viewpoints, sparking a debate about the balance between free speech and platform…

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Making the Case Against Aerial Surveillance, with the ACLU’s Jay Stanley [S5E2] 34:02

2M ago34:02

34:02

Welcome to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! In this episode, Foundry Fellow Katelyn Ringrose sat down with Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, at the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, to discuss Jay’s work on aerial surveillance law and policy, with a spotlight on the work that the ACLU is doing to…

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State of the Net Live 2024: Neurotechnology and Privacy, a New Era of Internet Geopolitics, and the Legal Landscape for Online Expression [S5E1] 53:41

2M ago53:41

53:41

Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! To kick off Season Five, the Tech Policy Grind is bringing you to State of the Net 2024 Live! On February 12, 2024 officials from the executive and legislative branches joined internet and tech advocates in Washington, D.C. to discuss topics such as child online s…

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The Tech Policy Grind Signs Off (For Now!) [S4E38] 1:07:43

4M ago1:07:43

1:07:43

This final episode of the Tech Policy Grind season 4 stars Class Four Internet Law & Policy Foundry Fellows Meri Baghdasaryan, Lama Mohammed, and Reema Moussa one last time before their fellowship with The Foundry ends in January. In this episode, the fellows reflect on the highlights of 2023, including the growth of the podcast, the Foundry’s part…

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How to Start a Tech Policy Podcast and Other Stories with Reema Moussa [S4E37] 38:15

4M ago38:15

38:15

This week, Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Reema Moussa, the host and producer of this podcast. Reema is currently a third-year J.D. Candidate at the USC Gould School of Law focused on cybersecurity, privacy, internet governance, trust & safety, and other tech law and policy issues. In this episode, Meri takes Reema through an introspective conver…

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A 2023 Privacy Law Update with Keir Lamont and Divya Sridhar [S4E36] 1:13:16

4M ago1:13:16

1:13:16

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind podcast! This week, Reema chats with Keir Lamont (Future of Privacy Forum) and Divya Sridhar (BBB National Programs) on the core 2023 privacy law updates you need to know. They cover updates since Keir was on the show last year discussing his 5 key predictions for 2023 – including how those predictions panned o…

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The TPG Gets Meta (Not That One): Podcasters Unite! with Angelique Carson, Nicole Dove, and Noah Katz [S4E35] 45:16

5M ago45:16

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Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! This week, Reema gets “meta” by chatting with other podcasters to give a behind-the-scenes look into the world of tech policy podcast production. She chatted with Angelique Carson, host of The Privacy Beat podcast, Nicole Dove, host of the Urban Girl Corporate Wor…

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Brazilian Privacy Update with Marcela Mattiuzzo and Nathalie Fragoso [S4E34] 47:36

5M ago47:36

47:36

Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! This week, Reema chats with Marcela Mattiuzzo and Nathalie Fragoso, Partners at VMCA Advogados, on Brazilian privacy law and regulatory policy updates. They dive into recent activity from Brazil’s data protection authority (the ANPD), and the history of the LGPD. …

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What’s New In Tech Policy with the Foundry Fellows [S4E33] 23:42

5M ago23:42

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Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! This episode, Foundry Fellows Reema Moussa, Lama Mohammed, and Joe Catapano cover some of the latest headlines in tech policy. They cover the latest updates in the Federal Trade Commission’s case against the data broker Kochava, the DOJ’s antitrust case against Go…

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Demystifying Election Security Misinformation with Katie Harbath [S4E32] 34:31

6M ago34:31

34:31

Welcome back to the “Tech Policy Grind” podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! In this episode, Senior Fellow Lama Mohammed interviews Katie Harbath, CEO and Founder of Anchor Change on election security misinformation. With 2024 setting out to be “tsunami” year of elections, Lama and Katie dive deep into definitions, misinformation around e…

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What’s Class Five Up To? With Evan Enzer, Zia Mohammad, and Daniela Guzman Peña [S4E31] 26:18

6M ago26:18

26:18

This week, host Reema Moussa catches up with three Class 5 fellows Evan Enzer, Zia Mohammad, and Daniela Guzman Peña. Evan Enzer is the editor of the Tech Policy Grind podcast and a consultant focused on privacy law compliance and operations. Zia is a technologist working as a product manager for Amazon Web Services in quantum computing. Daniela is…

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Fellow Highlights: Curiosity and Collaboration with Dyllan Brown-Bramble [S4E30] 29:24

6M ago29:24

29:24

This week Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Dyllan Brown-Bramble, who is a Class 4 fellow and leads Foundry’s Annual Policy Hackathon Committee. Dyllan is an associate at a global law firm where he practices privacy and cybersecurity law. He also serves as a Junior Board Member for the Surveillance Te…

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Getting Up to Speed on Vehicle Privacy with Adonne Washington and Andrea Amico [S4E29] 33:56

6M ago33:56

33:56

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry! On this week’s episode, Evan Enzer, an ILPF fellow and car-centric SoCal Native, met up with Adonne Washington (Future of Privacy Forum) and Andrea Amico (Privacy4Cars) to cover our introduction to vehicle privacy, a fast-emerging market in the broader privacy law…

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Queer Privacy and Digital Equity with Cobun Zweifel-Keegan and Vinny DiGilio [S4E28] 29:50

7M ago29:50

29:50

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! This week’s episode is all about queer privacy. Foundry Fellow Katelyn Ringrose chats with Cobun Zweifel-Keegan (IAPP) and Vinny DiGilio (Grindr) about privacy issues impacting the queer community. They get into what queer privacy means to them, and why digital equi…

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Data Brokers, Ad-Tech, and the Civil Liberties at Stake with Justin Sherman [S4E27] 55:56

7M ago55:56

55:56

This week, Reema sits down with Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, to talk all things data brokers. They cover the ad-tech ecosystem, the past, current, and future of federal and state-level regulation on data brokers, and what the data brokerage industry means for civil liberties. They then dig deep into recent FTC action, including t…

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An Engineer’s Guide to Cyber Policy with Grant Versfeld [S4E26] 27:43

7M ago27:43

27:43

This week Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Grant Versfeld. Grant is Co-Vice President for the Foundry’s current E-Board and is a Threat Intelligence Engineer at a major tech company. He recently graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Computer Science, where he specialized in cybersecurity a…

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Human Memory and Digital Preservation with Stephen Abrams [S4E25] 35:07

8M ago35:07

35:07

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Rebecca Kilberg interviews Dr. Stephen Abrams, Head of the Digital Preservation program at the Harvard University Library. How do priorities for digital preservation develop? How similar are digital preservation strategies and polic…

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Cyberlaw and Incident Response with Jena Valdetero [S4E24] 37:37

8M ago37:37

37:37

This week Class 5 Fellow Gabe Rudin sits down with Jena Valdetero, the Co-Chair of the Greenberg Traurig’s (GT) U.S. Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice for a discussion on cyberlaw and incident response. Jena and Gabe discuss Jena’s path to the field, changing technologies and tactics employed by threat actors, what incident response entails, …

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Spanning the Tech Policy Spectrum with David Morar [S4E23] 34:29

8M ago34:29

34:29

This week, Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with David Morar, Ph.D. David is a researcher and public policy professional, and a three-time ICANN Fellow. His work spans the spectrum of technology policy issues, both nationally and internationally, from privacy and open data to ethics and content issues (e.…

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Privacy, Patience and Practice with Justin P’ng [S4E22] 34:28

8M ago34:28

34:28

This week, Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Justin P’ng. Justin is a Class 4 Fellow and a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, an international law firm based in Canada. His practice focuses on cyber incident response, data governance, and privacy compliance. He obtained…

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Cracking the Code: Addressing AI Bias with Jiahao Chen, Amber Ezzell, and Juhi Koré [S4E21] 37:45

9M ago37:45

37:45

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with Jiahao Chen, Founder and CEO of Artifical Intelligence, LLC, Amber Ezzell, Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Juhi Koré, Digital Projects in a recent panel on bias in artificial intelligence (A…

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Building a Responsible Tech Community with David Polgar [S4E20] 33:32

9M ago33:32

33:32

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! This week, Reema chats with David Ryan Polgar, Founder of All Tech is Human, about creating a responsible tech community. They get into what responsible tech means, and why David thinks New York City is the center of the responsible tech community. Reema and David a…

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Will Art Survive In the Age of Generative AI? With Kieran Henstenburg and Christopher Shannon [S4E19] 36:59

9M ago36:59

36:59

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law & Policy Foundry! In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with Glen Echo Group’s Creative Director, Christopher Shannon, and Associate Designer Kieran Henstenburg. The Glen Echo Group is a public affairs and public relations firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., special…

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Artificial Intelligence Use Cases with Gillian Diebold, Hodan Omaar, & Charley Snyder [S4E18] 32:10

9M ago32:10

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The rollout of generative AI has helped illustrate how transformative AI technology can be. But the emergence of AI shouldn’t be surprising since it’s been implemented across sectors for years. This episode’s discussion centers around the various artificial intelligence use cases in a number of verticals. In this conversation moderated by Foundry F…

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Decentralizing Social Media with Eric Goldman [S4E17] 37:38

10M ago37:38

37:38

What does Meta’s Threads product mean for the future of social media? Reema dives into this and the current state of social media with Professor Eric Goldman, one of the world’s leading experts on social media and the law. They discuss how the fediverse works and the pros and cons of decentralizing social media. Professor Goldman explores how conte…

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Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property [S4E16] 35:31

10M ago35:31

35:31

Many have called for AI regulation, but existing IP laws already apply to generative AI because they protect the original works of authorship used to train foundational models. In this conversation moderated by Foundry Fellow Ekene Chuks-Okeke, IP experts Elena Gurevich (Center for Art Law, EG Legal Services) Franklin Graves (HCA Healthcare, Creato…

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From the Hill to the Bar: A Path to Cyberlaw with Allyson McReynolds [S4E15] 23:37

10M ago23:37

23:37

This week Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Allyson McReynolds, a recent graduate from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and currently a Legal Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation. Prior to law school, Allyson worked in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Legislative Assistant advisin…

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Artificial Intelligence 101 [S4E14] 34:35

10M ago34:35

34:35

In this episode, Foundry Fellow Dyllan Brown-Bramble chats with Micaela Mantegna, Bikalpa Neupane, and Adil Islam. Dyllan and the panelists cover the basic who, what, when, where and why of artificial intelligence. The conversation panel discussed what AI is, its future, and their thoughts on the pros and cons of AI technology. This event is the fi…

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Catching Up with the Oversight Board: Reporting on Content Moderation, Elections & Human Rights with Pamela San Martín [S4E13] 35:19

10M ago35:19

35:19

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed interviews Pamela San Martín, Board Member of the Oversight Board to discuss the success, lessons learned, and the cases filed from their latest Annual Report. They dig into issues concerning content moderation, human rights, global elections, misinformation, and m…

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Collaborating for a Secure, Stable Internet: A Conversation with ICANN’s Sally Costerton [S4E12] 44:24

11M ago44:24

44:24

Welcome back! In this episode, Joe Catapano, ILPF Class 4 fellow interviews Sally Costerton, Interim President & CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In addition to its core technical functions of coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers, ICANN is one of the premier global multistakeholder policy making bodi…

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Rethinking Multistakerholderism in Internet Governance with Ayden Férdeline [S4E11] 39:42

11M ago39:42

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This week, Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Fellow Class 4 Fellow Ayden Férdeline. Meri and Ayden chat about the multiple hats Ayden wears in the Internet Governance ecosystem, the Global Digital Compact, the roles of various stakeholders in this space and the avenues to create your own opportunities…

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Gaming and Civil Rights with Albert Fox Cahn [S4E10] 22:31

11M ago22:31

22:31

Welcome back to the show! Reema’s out this week – so our editor, Evan Enzer, subbed in for a conversation with Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) on the intersections of speech, gaming and civil rights. Evan and Albert talk about what they’ve been working on over the last few months. They begin with Albert’s…

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AI Integrity with Talha Baig [S4E09] 40:42

11M ago40:42

40:42

Welcome back! This week, Reema sits down with Talha Baig, co-host of the Trust in Tech podcast and former AI Integrity engineer at Meta. Reema and Talha chat about developments in generative AI and how it affects trust and safety online and get into the weeds on how AI is applied in the integrity space – and the implications of AI on the integrity …

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Connecting the Dots Backwards with Ellen Magallanes [S4E08] 33:48

12M ago33:48

33:48

This week Meri chatted with Class 4 Fellow Ellen Magallanes on her experience in privacy and at the Wikimedia Foundation. Ellen is a dual-qualified US-Australian attorney and a Senior Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation. Privacy law, like all the best rabbit holes, was something she fell into and never looked back. Now, Ellen furthers her interest …

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Finding the Tech Policy Community with Ashkhen Kazaryan [S4E07] 38:39

12M ago38:39

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We are back with our next fellow highlight episode. Class 4 Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Ashkhen Kazaryan, a tech policy expert and a former Foundry Fellow. Ashkhen manages policy projects related to free speech, content moderation, surveillance reform, and the intersection of constitutional rights and technology. Currently, she is a Sen…

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Health Privacy 101 with Jordan Wrigley and Kirk Nahra [S4E06] 48:46

1y ago48:46

48:46

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! Today, class is in session for Health Privacy 101 with Jordan Wrigley and Kirk Nahra. In May 2022, the leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade shocked the nation. About a month later, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case officially overturned the constitutional right to abortion. Last y…

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The TPG North American Tour: the Foundry Takes ICANN76, WiCyS ’23, and IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit [S4E05] 40:03

1y ago40:03

40:03

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! In this episode, we hit the road once again for our North American tour of some major tech policy conferences. This time, we head to the ICANN76 Community Forum in Cancún, Mexico, the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) 2023 Conference in Denver, Colorado, and the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC. The IC…

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A DIY Tech Policy Major: Fellow Highlight with Lama Mohammed [S4E04] 24:13

1y ago24:13

24:13

Last season we started a tradition of featuring old and current Foundry Fellows in an episode spotlight. In this episode, we bring this tradition back with Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed kicking off the Foundry Fellows Highlight series for Season Four, covering her career path and DIY creation of a her own “tech policy major” at American University! …

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Welcome to Our New Foundry Fellows: the Next Generation of Tech Policy Professionals [S4E03] 40:55

1y ago40:55

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Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry! In this episode, Class 4 Fellow Lama Mohammed chats with new Foundry Fellows Ekene Chuks-Okeke, an LLM student in the Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship program at Cornell Tech, and Lili Siri Spira, the Social Media and Campaign Marketing Manager for the TechEquit…

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Digital Safety and That Section 230 Thing – Conversations from State of the Net (Part 2) [S4E02] 30:07

1y ago30:07

30:07

We’re back with Part 2 of our State of the Net series, and this week we’re chatting kids privacy and what’s going on with Section 230! In this episode, Reema and Joe talk digital privacy and safety issues for children with Natalie Campbell (Internet Society). Then, Reema chats with Matt Perault (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Yaël E…

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What’s Going on with the Web? Conversations from State of the Net 2023 (Part 1) [S4E01] 38:40

1y ago38:40

38:40

We’re back with new episodes every Thursday for Season 4 of the Tech Policy Grind! And if you couldn’t tell, we’re really excited about what’s to come. To kick off the season, we hit the road and headed to the State of the Net Conference, where tech policy professionals have convened annually for nearly two decades to collectively look towards all …

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Will the U.S. Ban TikTok? With Adam Kovacevich and Carl Szabo [S4E00] 51:30

1y ago51:30

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Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. In this episode, Joe Catapano chats with Adam Kovacevich, Chamber of Progress and Carl Szabo, NetChoice on whether the U.S. can, will, or should ban TikTok. There are many options being discussed from an outright ban on the app, to divestiture and audits of TikTok…

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A Year in Review with the Tech Policy Grind [S3E30] 1:07:47

1+ y ago1:07:47

1:07:47

What a year it’s been…in this episode, some familiar faces (or rather, voices) from the Tech Policy Grind team of Internet Law and Policy Foundry Class 4 Fellows come together to review the revival of the pod with Season 3 this year. We dive into the original history behind the podcast’s conception, what the Foundry has been up to this year, and wh…

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When Law and Computer Science Meet: Fellow Highlight with Nathan Reitinger [S3E29] 36:35

1+ y ago36:35

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We’re coming down to the end of Season 3 of the Tech Policy Grind! For our last Fellow Highlight of the season (and 2022), Reema chats with Class 4 Foundry Fellow Nathan Reitinger, PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland…and JD? Tune in to hear about Nathan’s experience in applied privacy, and what a career at the nexus of l…

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Privacy Legislation in 2023: What’s Coming in the New Year? with Keir Lamont [S3E28] 44:29

1+ y ago44:29

44:29

2022 is nearly over, and it’s been a wild year for privacy. In this episode, Reema sits down with Keir Lamont, Senior Counsel and U.S. Legislation Lead at the Future of Privacy Forum. Keir recaps what happened in the world of privacy legislation in 2022, and what the tech policy world can expect out of privacy legislation in the New Year. Keir Lamo…

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Implementing the Rules of the Network Road: A Conversation with NANOG Executive Director Edward McNair [S3E27] 38:29

1+ y ago38:29

38:29

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind Podcast by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. In this episode, Joe Catapano, ILPF Class 4 Fellow interviews Edward McNair, Executive Director of the North America Network Operators Group (NANOG). We all know the role that lawyers and government officials play in contributing to tech policy, but how do the peo…

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Privacy, Antitrust, and Algorithmic Bias; Working at the Intersections with Caitlin Chin [S3E26] 27:42

1+ y ago27:42

27:42

Welcome back to the Tech Policy Grind! Today, Reema chats with Caitlin Chin, a Class 4 Fellow at the Foundry and a a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), on her work at the intersection of privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic bias. At CSIS, Caitlin researches technology regulation in the United States and abroad. She …

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A Word with Our 2022 Policy Hackathon Winners [S3E25] 45:39

1+ y ago45:39

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In this episode, Foundry Fellow Meri Baghdasaryan sat down with the representatives of three winning teams at the Foundry’s 2022 Policy Hackathon. This year the Hackathon’s theme was “Trust, Safety and Privacy in the Metaverse.” The participants were tasked with pitching a proposal to address some of privacy, trust, and safety challenges in immersi…

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Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation and Prevention: A Very Merry CYBER CON Recap [S3E24] 36:43

1+ y ago36:43

36:43

Missed our exciting CYBER CON event with the WiCyS Privacy, Law, and Policy Affiliate? The Tech Policy Grind has you covered. Foundry Fellows Reema Moussa, Allyson McReynolds, Grant Versfeld & Lama Mohammed discuss highlights from the Foundry’s first ever virtual cybersecurity convention, starring Amie D’Souza, Josephine Wolff, Kassi Burns, Eva Gal…

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