Karl Herchenroeder, Associate Editor, is a technology policy journalist for publications including Communications Daily. Born in Rockville, Maryland, he joined the Warren Communications News staff in 2018. He began his journalism career in 2012 at the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado, where he covered city government. After that, he covered the nuclear industry for ExchangeMonitor in Washington. You can follow Herchenroeder on Twitter: @karlherk

Breaking up Google should be considered a potential remedy to stop the company from self-preferencing on Chrome, Android and the Play Store, DOJ said Tuesday, filing a proposed remedy framework with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (see 2408050052) (docket 1:20-cv-03010-APM). Google and tech associations fired back the next day, calling DOJ’s framework a radical departure from the facts in the case.Read More >>

Federal and state legislators should take a light-touch regulatory approach to AI because there are unsettled questions about free speech and innovation potential, a Trump-appointed trade judge, a religious group and tech-minded scholars said Tuesday.Read More >>

DOJ said current laws are sufficient to prosecute child sexual abuse material (CSAM) crimes, including AI-generated deep fakes, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.Read More >>

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should lift a district court injunction against Texas’ social media law and remand the case to assess the tech industry’s First Amendment challenge at a more granular level, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) argued Wednesday (docket 21-51178).Read More >>

House leaders will likely take up kids’ privacy legislation, but not before more legislative work is done on the House Commerce Committee-passed bills, a high-ranking Senate Commerce Committee staffer said Wednesday.Read More >>