Public Policy
Regulation, trade, government and security, read for what they do to the businesses that have to live with them.
Public Policy is the vertical for the decisions made in capitals that land on companies. Regulation, trade and tariffs, elections and government, antitrust, and healthcare policy are the beats, and geopolitics and security appear when they change what a business can plan for. Three stories each weekday at 11, in our own words, linked to the publisher. We choose for the reader who has to model a policy risk rather than argue about it: the general counsel, the head of government affairs, the founder selling into a market whose rules are moving. Sources range from newspapers to think tanks and academic institutes, and we say which is which. The editor’s note beneath the day’s lead explains the choice and what to watch as the policy moves from proposal to enforcement.
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Every story we have kept in Public Policy, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
Use of Flock Cameras Is Not a Fourth Amendment "Search," District Court Rules
A California federal district court ruled that police queries of Flock Safety's licence-plate-reader network do not constitute a Fourth Amendment search, distinguishing the data from broader location-tracking precedents.
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
Two lawmakers have asked the Defense Department's watchdog to explain why measures meant to stop adversaries buying troops' location data from brokers are not working as promised.
