Marketplace Tech

What a privacy organization and Big Tech’s lead lobbying group think about internet regulation


Listen Later

When you look at the lawsuits aimed at blocking attempts to regulate tech, it’s usually not companies like Meta or Snap doing the suing. Oftentimes, it’s a group called NetChoice, which has emerged as Big Tech’s top lobbying force from Capitol Hill to the courts.

Today, a conversation with NetChoice General Counsel Carl Szabo and Megan Iorio, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit focused on privacy. They occasionally agree, but very often they do not.

Case in point: the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which requires websites that children are likely to visit to provide privacy protections by default. It was set to take effect in July, but so far, Szabo’s group has successfully blocked it in court.

Marketplace’s Lily Jamali sat down with Szabo and Iorio and asked about how their groups interact.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Marketplace TechBy Marketplace

  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4
  • 4.4

4.4

77 ratings


More shows like Marketplace Tech

View all
Planet Money by NPR

Planet Money

30,625 Listeners

Marketplace by Marketplace

Marketplace

8,790 Listeners

Marketplace Morning Report by Marketplace

Marketplace Morning Report

936 Listeners

Marketplace All-in-One by Marketplace

Marketplace All-in-One

1,390 Listeners

Marketplace Tech by Marketplace

Marketplace Tech

1,288 Listeners

Motley Fool Money by The Motley Fool

Motley Fool Money

3,232 Listeners

WSJ Your Money Briefing by The Wall Street Journal

WSJ Your Money Briefing

1,719 Listeners

Pivot by New York Magazine

Pivot

9,732 Listeners

WSJ Tech News Briefing by The Wall Street Journal

WSJ Tech News Briefing

1,649 Listeners

Make Me Smart by Marketplace

Make Me Smart

5,482 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

113,307 Listeners

Bold Names by The Wall Street Journal

Bold Names

1,448 Listeners

The Indicator from Planet Money by NPR

The Indicator from Planet Money

9,551 Listeners

Composers Datebook by American Public Media

Composers Datebook

10 Listeners

Piano Puzzler by American Public Media

Piano Puzzler

35 Listeners

Hard Fork by The New York Times

Hard Fork

5,592 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,508 Listeners