Policy
- The White House AI Framework: What It Actually Says (and What It Leaves Out)
The Trump administration released a four-page AI legislative framework on March 20, 2026, calling on Congress to act this year. Here is what it actually proposes, what it skips entirely, and what engineering teams should be doing while they wait.
- Bill C-22: Canada Builds the Surveillance Infrastructure, Then Worries About Access Rules
Canada's Bill C-22 narrows warrantless access to subscriber data -- then mandates that ISPs and electronic service providers build permanent network surveillance infrastructure. The access rules improved. The infrastructure problem did not.
- The Ad SDK You Shipped Is a Government Surveillance Vector
CBP has officially acknowledged it buys location data sourced from the real-time bidding ecosystem -- data that flows directly from ordinary apps through ad SDKs to government analysts. This is a product engineering post about what your app is actually participating in, and what to do about it.
- Europe Is Building Its Own Cloud. Here's What That Actually Means.
At MWC 2026, the European Commission unveiled EURO-3C -- a €75 million federated Telco-Edge-Cloud project backed by Europe's biggest telcos. Here's what it means in practice for engineers building global products.
- Corporate Ethics Meets State Power: The Anthropic/Pentagon Standoff and What It Means for Engineering Teams
When the Pentagon demanded Anthropic delete a clause protecting against mass surveillance, it triggered the first real test of whether corporate AI ethics policies can survive contact with sovereign power. Here's what engineers deploying AI systems need to understand.
- Whose Ethics? Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of AI Vendor Governance
Anthropic refused to delete one phrase from its AI usage policy. The Pentagon banned them, OpenAI filled the gap within hours, and the entire premise of 'safety-first' enterprise AI got stress-tested in real time. Here's what it means for engineering teams.