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The attention of the world has recently been captured by the return of Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission, the activities of Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture, and China’s Chang'e 5 moon landing, yet a quiet revolution is taking place in the global space industry. This revolution started in the 2010s and its full impact on global space industry should be measured over the next decade. In the next 10 years, the entry into service of constellations of small satellites should reshape the face of the global space industry. While the miniaturization of satellites is not a disruptive innovation in...

Lessons from a Privacy Shield post-mortem on Capitol Hill A man looks at data on his mobile as background with crowd of people walking is projected in this picture. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo On December 9, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing on the consequences of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield, the main vehicle to allow transfers of data from the European Union (EU) to the United States—and on the uncertain future of transatlantic data flows. The event lacked the passion and pu...

Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair Share Copy Analysis Everyone is in agreement: the United States needs a new federal privacy law, and it needs to be put in place in 2021. That was the main upshot of a congressional hearing on Wednesday morning looking at the death of Privacy Shield and what America needs to do about it. Privacy Shield, if you can recall, was the doomed regulatory framework governing the way in which companies in the US and European Union shared people's personal information. The Senate Commerce Committee heard from no fewer than five exp...