Congress was right to include an amendment outlawing revenge porn in a bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, said Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro Wednesday. The House passed reauthorization Wednesday afternoon. Including the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act of 2019 (HR-2896) “in this reauthorization will hold abusers and harassers accountable for distributing private, explicit images of individuals without their consent,” said Castro.

Congress was right to include an amendment outlawing revenge porn in a bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, said Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro Wednesday. The House passed reauthorization Wednesday afternoon. Including the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act of 2019 (HR-2896) “in this reauthorization will hold abusers and harassers accountable for distributing private, explicit images of individuals without their consent,” said Castro.

President Joe Biden’s reported decision to nominate Columbia Law School’s Lina Khan for an open FTC seat drew reactions mostly along party lines Tuesday. Consumer groups praised the news. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation called her “populist” views a threat to traditional antitrust enforcement.

President Joe Biden’s reported decision to nominate Columbia Law School’s Lina Khan for an open FTC seat drew reactions mostly along party lines Tuesday. Consumer groups praised the news. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation called her “populist” views a threat to traditional antitrust enforcement.

Strengthen U.S. measures to slow China technology growth, including prohibitions on Chinese acquisitions of American technology, an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation virtual event was told last week. ITIF President Robert Atkinson said China’s “technology advancements come at the cost of European technology advancements and U.S. technology advancements.” European countries don't feel responsible for countering Chinese tech advancements, responded Daniel Gros, Centre for European Policy Studies director. Atkinson isn't “on the side of full decoupling,” and the U.S. should be working with allies to “push back against” China and its unfair trade practices, especially in the tech sector, the ITIF chief said Wednesday. Though the Trump administration has often opted not to pursue multilateral cooperation, Atkinson said the incoming Joe Biden administration will do more and “mend some of the fences that were unfortunately broken” with allies. The White House and China's embassy in Washington didn't comment Friday.

Strengthen U.S. measures to slow China technology growth, including prohibitions on Chinese acquisitions of American technology, an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation virtual event was told last week. ITIF President Robert Atkinson said China’s “technology advancements come at the cost of European technology advancements and U.S. technology advancements.” European countries don't feel responsible for countering Chinese tech advancements, responded Daniel Gros, Centre for European Policy Studies director. Atkinson isn't “on the side of full decoupling,” and the U.S. should be working with allies to “push back against” China and its unfair trade practices, especially in the tech sector, the ITIF chief said Wednesday. Though the Trump administration has often opted not to pursue multilateral cooperation, Atkinson said the incoming Joe Biden administration will do more and “mend some of the fences that were unfortunately broken” with allies. The White House and China's embassy in Washington didn't comment Friday.

Strengthen U.S. measures to slow China technology growth, including prohibitions on Chinese acquisitions of American technology, an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation virtual event was told last week. ITIF President Robert Atkinson said China’s “technology advancements come at the cost of European technology advancements and U.S. technology advancements.” European countries don't feel responsible for countering Chinese tech advancements, responded Daniel Gros, Centre for European Policy Studies director. Atkinson isn't “on the side of full decoupling,” and the U.S. should be working with allies to “push back against” China and its unfair trade practices, especially in the tech sector, the ITIF chief said Wednesday. Though the Trump administration has often opted not to pursue multilateral cooperation, Atkinson said the incoming Joe Biden administration will do more and “mend some of the fences that were unfortunately broken” with allies. The White House and China's embassy in Washington didn't comment Friday.

The U.S. should strengthen a range of measures to slow down China’s technology growth, including more foreign direct investment (FDI) restrictions and prohibitions on Chinese acquisitions of U.S. technology, said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Although many in Europe prefer the U.S. to remain technologically superior to China, Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, said little can be done to stop China's rise, and the U.S. should instead focus on increasing trade with China instead of decoupling. Both said the U.S. and Europe should collaborate more closely on industrial technology policy, including for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

U.S. “fearmongers” who warn that China is “way ahead” in the 5G “race” and that “drastic measures are needed to catch up,” fail to see that China’s 5G stats paint a misleading picture, said the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Monday.” Some have “panicked” over China’s deployment of hundreds of thousands of new 5G base stations and “projections of hundreds of millions of 5G subscribers this year,” it said, but “understanding how infrastructure and subscription numbers are actually counted matters.” China distorts data by counting anyone on a 5G plan as a subscriber, even those who “only have a 4G device connecting to 4G infrastructure,” it said. The country counts individual base stations instead of cellsites, further tainting the data to appear “that the sky is falling,” ITIF said: Though China’s 5G ambitions “should not be underestimated,” U.S. stakeholders “should view Chinese operators’ 5G claims with skepticism.”

U.S. “fearmongers” who warn that China is “way ahead” in the 5G “race” and that “drastic measures are needed to catch up,” fail to see that China’s 5G stats paint a misleading picture, said the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Monday.” Some have “panicked” over China’s deployment of hundreds of thousands of new 5G base stations and “projections of hundreds of millions of 5G subscribers this year,” it said, but “understanding how infrastructure and subscription numbers are actually counted matters.” China distorts data by counting anyone on a 5G plan as a subscriber, even those who “only have a 4G device connecting to 4G infrastructure,” it said. The country counts individual base stations instead of cellsites, further tainting the data to appear “that the sky is falling,” ITIF said: Though China’s 5G ambitions “should not be underestimated,” U.S. stakeholders “should view Chinese operators’ 5G claims with skepticism.”