In this column, we’ll explore developments, issues, and challenges in technology law through cartoons. We’ll break down constitutional analysis and congressional showdowns, agency enforcement actions and state policy experiments, industry pushback and public pressure. We’ll look at how courts choose to apply or abandon precedents when faced with new technologies, how agencies reinterpret their authority for new challenges, and how competing visions of safety, free speech, privacy, and innovation collide in state capitols and on Capitol Hill.

Where do we draw the line? In this column, we’ll sketch it out.

Meg Leta Jones is a tech policy professor and cartoonist in the Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) program at Georgetown University where she researches rules and technological change. She’s also a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Ethics and a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center. Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten, Meg’s first book, is about the social, legal, and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion. Her second book project, The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy, tells the transatlantic history of digital consent through the lens of a familiar technical object. Her current research and cartoons revolve around family technology policy and involve a number of collaborative projects with incredible Georgetown colleagues and students.