Insights
Here we share timely perspectives, research, analysis, and commentary at the intersection of technology, law, and policy, produced by faculty, fellows, staff, and others affiliated with the Tech Institute and Georgetown University.
From quick reactions to unfolding developments to deeper dives on structural issues — the Insights page offers a space for exploring ideas, elevating expert voices, and connecting legal and technical thinking to real-world challenges. Through hosting these Insights on the Tech Institute website, we aim to help foster informed dialogue and contribute to a more just and accountable digital future. The work is solely the product of the author(s).
Stephanie T. Nguyen
November 18
Written testimony of Stephanie Nguyen, on the The Surveillance Pricing Act (House Bill 1942).
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, Samuel A. Levine & Hannah Hartford
November 18
This Tech Brief addresses text-based scams — responsibility, known harms and risks, the role of AI in acceleration, relevant policy initiatives, open questions, and sources for investigations.
Jason Tashea
November 13, 2025
This piece appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on November 13, 2025.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, et al.
November 10, 2025
As chatbots are deployed to hundreds of millions of kids and teens, there have been widespread documented harms including mental health issues, financial harm, medical harm, emotional dependence, manipulation and deception, psychosis, delusional thinking, self-harm and suicide, bias reinforcement, and anger or impulsive actions. Enforcers and policymakers now face a familiar challenge: applying longstanding laws to emerging technologies.
Stephanie T. Nguyen, Erie Meyer, and Samuel A.A. Levine
November 3, 2025
While OpenAI promises ongoing measurement and iteration, intermittent blog posts that offer single snapshots based on self-selected metrics do not suffice. True transparency requires real-time disclosure of safety data, clear, consistent criteria, and longitudinal measures that allow the public to assess whether harms are declining.
Stephanie T. Nguyen
October 30, 2025
Tech Institute Federal Alumni Fellow Stephanie Nguyen was featured in an interview on the Organized Money podcast on October 30, 2025.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, Samuel A. Levine, and Patrick Yurky
October 29, 2025
This chapter is part of a series examining enforcement remedies for tech-related harms, with each chapter highlighting a different type of regulatory response. This chapter focuses on cases where regulators have responded to privacy violations by restricting companies from disclosing or selling consumer data.
Stephanie T. Nguyen and Samuel A.A. Levine
October 2025
This piece was published in the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator in October, 2025.
Stephanie T. Nguyen
October 18, 2025
Tech Institute Federal Alumni Fellow Stephanie Nguyen was featured in The Washington Post on October 18, 2025.
Erie Meyer
October 14, 2025
Tech Institute Senior Fellow Erie Meyer was featured in a podcast to discuss her recent toolkit, “Working with Technologists: Recommendations for State Enforcers and Regulators," alongside co-author Laura Edelson.
Stephanie Weiner
September 26, 2025
The policy community cannot afford to treat broadband access as yesterday’s problem while turning its full attention to AI and emerging tech. Online access and online governance are part of the same agenda. Only by advancing both together can we ensure that the benefits of technological innovation extend to everyone.
Stephanie Weiner
September 25, 2025
This piece was published by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society on September 25, 2025.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, and Samuel A.A. Levine
September 25, 2025
Given recent developments on AI companion chatbot harms to children and teens - we outline a few strategic questions worth focusing on further.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, and Samuel A.A. Levine
September 25, 2025
This toolkit provides practical resources for regulators to protect privacy and stop data broker abuses.
Stephanie T. Nguyen
September 21, 2025
This piece appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation on September 21, 2025.
Stephanie T. Nguyen
September 17, 2025
This piece appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation on September 17, 2025.
Stephanie T. Nguyen
September 14, 2025
Tech Institute Federal Alumni Fellow Stephanie Nguyen was featured in an interview on the Organized Money podcast on October 30, 2025.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, David Choffnes, Laura Edelson, Jonathan Mayer, and Alan Mislove
September 8, 2025
This Tech Brief details tensions between Delta’s public denial of using personal data for pricing and evidence that its AI systems could tailor fares to individuals, raising questions about its data definitions and practices. It provides in-depth context on airline AI pricing technology, industry partners, regulatory interest, and unresolved transparency issues.
Erie Meyer
August 22, 2025
In FedScoop, Tech Institute Senior Fellow Erie Meyer lays out a blueprint for the White House’s federal web design order.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, and Samuel A.A. Levine
August 11, 2025
Previously we posted a tech brief on AI Sycophancy. Below, we follow up with observed harms, along with key questions that remain open for policymakers, developers, and researchers.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, Hannah Hartford, and Matthew Sparks
August 6, 2025
Remedies for tech harms can range from outright bans on certain technologies, executives or practices, to requirements for data deletion, and limits on how long data can be retained. This overview collects examples of how enforcement agencies at the federal or state level can respond to problems like abusive tech and data practices using tried-and-tested remedies from orders issued across the country. These examples can serve as a reference point for policymakers, advocates, and technologists looking to understand what designing remedies for accountability looks like in practice, and highlight specific cases and language for consideration.
Matthew Sparks
August 1, 2025
In this edition of the Tech Institute AI Newsletter, a weekly newsletter covering all things AI, Matthew Sparks discusses the Trump Administration's AI Action Plan.
Stephanie Nguyen & Erie Meyer
July 30, 2025
This tech brief synthesizes technical and publicly reported information to explain a recent AI-related incident, assess resulting harms and company responses, and offer clear, factual insights for policymakers, researchers, enforcers, and the public.
Stephanie Nguyen, Erie Meyer, Laura Edelson & Jonathan Mayer
July 23, 2025
This tech brief provides a practical framework for how to work with technologists inside regulatory or enforcement agencies, like a state attorney general or insurance commissioner. It explains what technologists do, when to bring them in, and how they can strengthen your case – whether you’re drafting a subpoena, reviewing evidence, or designing a remedy.
Lina M. Khan, Samuel A.A. Levine & Stephanie T. Nguyen
June 2025
This piece appeared in the Stanford Law Review in June 2025.
Stephanie Weiner
Jun 27, 2025
This piece appeared in Tech Policy Press.
Matthew Sparks
June 24, 2025
In this edition of the Tech Institute AI Newsletter, a weekly newsletter covering all things AI, Matthew Sparks discusses the Disney lawsuit against Midjourney.
Erie Meyer
April 11, 2025
Tech Institute Senior Fellow Erie Meyer sat down with Politico for an interview for the series, "The Future in 5 Questions."
Matthew Sparks
November 26, 2024
In this edition of the Tech Institute AI Newsletter, a weekly newsletter covering all things AI, Matthew Sparks discusses growing concerns about a potential AI bubble.
Matthew Sparks
November 7, 2024
In this edition of the Tech Institute AI Newsletter, a weekly newsletter covering all things AI, Matthew Sparks discusses Grok potentially engaging in the unauthorized practice of medicine and law.
Jason Tashea
September 2023
This piece was published in the Georgetown Law Technology Review
Jason Tashea
October 25, 2021
This piece was published by Brookings
2019
Jason Tashea contributed to this report, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Jason Tashea
June 25, 2019
This piece appeared in ABA Journal.
Jason Tashea
April 17, 2017
This piece appeared in Wired.