Companies have a moral and ethical imperative to ensure that their business operations positively impact the communities in which they serve. To adequately assess a business’ local and national impact, corporations should be required to disclose ESG related metrics to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). ESG metrics generally include issues relating to environmental […]
A growing number of companies routinely produce Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) information. And for good reason: employees, investors, community partners, and other stakeholders want to better understand how companies are factoring ESG considerations into their corporate governance decision-making. Today, there is not a standard ESG playbook because the challenges and opportunities in ESG vary […]
The new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, wants the SEC to become America’s climate regulator by mandating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures for both public and private companies. In my view, however, the SEC is drifting into an area that is far afield of its statutory mission. To be […]
There are many problems with the way companies collect, use, share, and sell data in the modern world. At the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading advocacy organization for digital rights, we think a lot about solutions to those problems and ways to improve digital privacy. The way the technology industry, and even most privacy regulation, […]
In 1996, Congress passed the Communications Decency Act (CDA) with Section 230, which states that United States policy is to “encourage the development of the Internet and other interactive computer services” and to “empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material.”