News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to the current research data request and access policies in the name of data security that will limit individual researchers’ access to data.
The European Commission has opened investigations to assess whether TikTok has breached the Digital Services Act.
Reddit has signed a contract to allow a company to train its AI Models on the platform’s content, ahead of its IPO.
Signal is testing a beta version that hides user’s phone numbers and lets them pick a username instead.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that weakening end-to-end encryption presents a disproportionate risk of undermining human rights.
Events
Abrams Institute Conversations will host Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin to discuss the cases before the Supreme Court concerning the power of states to regulate content moderation on social media platforms. Monday, March 4 · 12 – 1:30pm EST
Papers
Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing authored by Christopher Morten (Columbia Law School), Gabriel Nicholas (New York University School of Law) and Salome Viljoen (University of Michigan Law School; Harvard University).
(Compiled by Student Fellow Marina Garrote)