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Roslyn Layton

Roslyn Layton is a Visiting Researcher at Aalborg University Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies at Aalborg University where she earned a PhD in business economics and internet regulation. Her current research compares broadband cost recovery business models around the world. Roslyn serves on the Program Committees of the International Telecommunications Society and the Telecom Policy Research Conference. She serves as a EVP of Strand Consult, a Fellow of the National Security Institute at George Mason, and adviser to the Foundation for American Innovation and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. For more information, see RoslynLayton.com.
Commentary

Proxy Voting’s Hidden Influence on Corporate Takeovers and Activist Campaigns

Roslyn Layton
Roslyn Layton writes that proxy advisors, which provide voting services for shareholder meetings, can influence how publicly traded firms conduct their business. Two proxy firms–Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)–have 97 percent of the market and have allowed some minority shareholders to exercise outsized influence.
Big Tech

Did Concentration Exacerbate the CrowdStrike Outage?

Roslyn Layton
Roslyn Layton discusses the major outage caused by a software update from CrowdStrike. Layton explores the debate between the risks of concentrated IT security solutions as well as their benefits. She discusses the market response to the incident and examines potential solutions, including AI-driven testing and incremental rollouts, while arguing against government intervention as a fix.
Commentary

A 40-year Bipartisan Tech Policy Success Story

Roslyn Layton
The Domain Name System (DNS), a 1985 technical invention, was transformed into critical global infrastructure by the policies of the United States government beginning in the 1990’s. While some challenges remain, the light-touch regulation promoted by both parties has proven highly successful.
Antitrust and Competition

Live Nation’s Anticompetitive Conduct Is a Problem for Security

Roslyn Layton
Roslyn Layton highlights a recent data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers, including those who never directly used Ticketmaster's services, underscoring concerns about the company's data collection practices and market dominance.
Regulation

Patent Trolls Are Harming Innovation. Congress Can Help

Roslyn Layton
Patent trolls are amassing portfolios of patents, not to produce goods but to shake down innovative firms that use these technologies as inputs for settlement fees. The Advancing America’s Interest Act is an important step to protecting American innovators and the United States economy, writes Roslyn Layton.
Big Tech

Zero Rating Is The Free Sample In The Internet Ice Cream Store

Roslyn Layton
Why ban competitive offers in the online world when they’re allowed offline? Big tech wants plain vanilla broadband pricing because it forecloses platform competition.
Big Tech

How Big Tech Uses Net Neutrality To Subvert Competition

Roslyn Layton
A decade of evidence suggests that Open Internet policies have delivered the opposite effect.

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