Tech Policy 101: A View Through Newsletters
27 July 2021
I’ve found that newsletters are one of the best ways to learn more. The appeal: the latest tech policy news and findings delivered right to your inbox. (Because we don’t get enough email already 🤡!)
I thought I’d put together a list of some key newsletters (and organizations with newsletters) in this space and in my orbit. My work focuses on human and civil rights as well as public interest technology. This list reflects those biases.
This post is also a work in progress; its list non-exhaustive. I welcome constructive thoughts or feedback.
General tech & policy newsletters
- Access Now
- Ada Lovelace Institute
- Association for Progressive Communications
- Bellingcat
- Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
- Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
- Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
- Centre for Law, Technology and Society at University of Ottawa
- Cyber Collective
- Digital Freedom Fund
- Data: Made Not Found by danah boyd
- Data & Society Research Institute
- Digital Rights Weekly Newsletter by Article 19
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- New America
- Metaviews by Jesse Hirsh
- policy.ai by Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
- Platformer by Casey Newton
- regs to riches by Vass Bednar
- Ranking Digital Rights
- Ryerson Leadership Lab (full disclosure: I work here)
- Tactical Tech
- Techscape by the Guardian
- Tech Policy Press
- The Engine Room
- WITNESS
Cybersecurity policy-focused newsletters
- Citizen Lab
- Continuing Ed by Edward Snowden
- Cybernews
- Crypto-Gram by Bruce Schneier
- Privacy and Access Council of Canada
- SERENE-RISC - Smart Cybersecurity Network at Université de Montréal
- Stanford Internet Observatory
- The Buzz Weekly by IAPP
- Weekly Cybersecurity by Politico
- WeLiveSecurity by ESET
- Zero Day by Kim Zetter
AI policy-focused newsletters
- Algorithmic Justice League
- AlgorithmWatch
- AI Now Institute
- Data Science Community Newsletter at NYU
- European Artificial Intelligence Fund
- Humane AI by Roya Pakzad
- Import AI by Jack Clark
- The Algorithm by MIT Technology Review
Media ecosystem health-focused newsletters
Last updated 6 August 2021.