As America’s cybersecurity crisis worsens, “white hat” hackers—individuals who search for flaws in software as a public service—remain under a cloud of legal uncertainty. Riana Pfefferkorn explains how anti-hacking laws have failed to protect good-faith researchers and calls on Congress to help clear the legal minefield.
While the House of Representatives has passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act twice, the Senate has not voted on the bill. Rashawn Ray discusses the holdup over qualified immunity and the dynamics that are stalling progress on the legislation.
The American Rescue Plan provided $130 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds for cities, counties, and tribes, often amounting to significant shares of local governments’ annual budgets. How is that money being used? Alan Berube and Eli Byerly-Duke provide a preliminary examination of plans from 20 large cities around the country.
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