Cyber Policy Center

Stanford University's research center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy

Winter Seminar Series

Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by Stanford’s Tech Impact and Policy Center. We feature a variety of speakers who will discuss work and research at the intersection of A.I., free speech, democracy, security, and digital communication technologies. Our speakers include those who focus on policy to others who concentrate on empirical work around cyber issues. There will be both in person and virtual zoom options and attendees can register for all events in the series or single events.

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New Toolkit Measures the Impact of Phone-Free School Policies

Eighteen States and D.C. Have Implemented “Bell-to-Bell” School Phone-Use Policies In The Past Year

Stanford Youth Safety and Digital Wellbeing Report, 2025

The Stanford Youth Safety and Digital Wellbeing Report addresses the increasingly complex conversation around social media and youth well being.

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Featured Stories

Social Media Lab Appointed as Lead Academic Partner for Australian Legislation

The Stanford Social Media Lab (SML) at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center has announced its partnership with the Australian Government's eSafety Commission as Lead Academic Partner on the recently passed Social Media Minimum Age legislation.

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Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search

Research by CPC's Ronald E. Robertson and co-authors, point to the need for greater transparency on search engines' content moderation practices, especially around important events like elections.

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Japan’s Pragmatic Model for AI Governance

Japan’s unique strategy – combining regulatory oversight, resource efficiency, and international partnership – offers a potential blueprint for the world. By GDPi's Charles Mok.

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Our Programs

Program on Platform Regulation

The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.

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Social Media Lab

The Stanford Social Media Lab works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and behavioral experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, and relationships.

Program on Democracy and the Internet

The Program on Democracy and the Internet seeks to promote research, convenings, and courses that engage with the challenges new technologies pose to democracy in the digital age.

Global Digital Policy Incubator

The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.

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Governance of Emerging Technologies

The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.

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