Beware knee-jerk reactions to Omicron, as there is so much we don’t yet know about the new COVID-19 variant

WhatsApp’s $267 million Irish privacy fine shows the GDPR is growing teeth

European regulators forced their Irish counterpart to get strict. Read More

Google is Struck with the Other antitrust Litigation, Including to the legal woes

A bipartisan coalition of nations resisted Alphabet’s Google Thursday alleging broad antitrust violations in the internet search market, signaling the next U.S. instance against the search giant at 2 weeks. The suit, headed by Colorado, Iowa and other countries, marks the most recent escalation of this antitrust struggle against Google. It includes per day following […]

In the COVID vaccine rollout, our expectations don’t match reality

When William Schaffner discusses the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, the health policy and infectious diseases expert compares it to a process that’s picking up steam—literally. He says he thinks about the rollout as the functional equivalent of starting a locomotive that’s sitting on the tracks. And locomotives can take a while to really get […]