A report by researchers from MIT and other institutions examines whether companies are complying with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), writes Karl Bode for Motherboard. The researchers found “websites in the EU not only aren’t adhering to the law, many are using required privacy alerts to mislead users.”

Writing for the New York Times, Prof. Yasheng Huang argues that Chinese policies favoring the state sector over the private sector have played a bigger role in the country’s economic slowdown than the current trade war. “That the Chinese economy is slowing down isn’t necessarily a bad thing, at least not in itself,” says Huang. “But a slowdown is a problem if it’s the result of poor policy.”

In an article for The Boston Globe, Prof. Kerry Emanuel emphasizes the importance of strengthening the collaborations between researchers and forecasters to improve U.S. weather forecasts. “The progress that we make today will have enormous consequences for our ability to protect lives and property, maintain economic competitiveness, and strengthen our national security,” writes Emanuel.

R. David Edelman of MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative writes for The Washington Post about the need to create substantive policies for AI technologies. “If we’re going to govern AI, we need to recognize it for what it is: a tool, with innumerable uses,” writes Edelman. “That means we need to govern it for the ways people actually use it.”

Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinsky writes that a report by MIT researchers finds many websites are not complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “Only 11.8 percent of the 680 sites researchers analyzed met the ‘minimum requirements’ that the researchers set forth,” Wodinsky explains, “specifically, that consent for user data collection through cookies and other technologies must be freely and explicitly given.”

Boston Globe reporter Jon Chesto spotlights Insurify, a startup founded by MIT alumna Snejina Zacharia that is aimed at streamlining the process of selecting an insurance policy.