By Rex M. Lee | Security Advisor AI Governance | Government Advisor | Tech Journalist 

In Issue 002 of the Electronic Bill of Rights newsletter, security advisor and tech journalist Rex M. Lee follows the money behind the 2026 midterms. The issue examines how AI-focused super PACs, technology investors, corporate PACs, and data-center businesses funded candidates across both parties, including reported spending of roughly $79 million across 68 House and Senate races. It also covers Meta’s political spending, Oracle’s PAC contributions, ByteDance and TikTok lobbying, and Jeffrey Yass’s super PAC giving, separating direct contributions, super PAC spending, and lobbying. Figures come from public sources and should be checked against primary filings.

Rex Lee, Security Advisor and Tech Journalist explains FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s call to enforce existing laws on AI and questions why the FTC and state AGs aren’t doing more to enforce existing consumer and child protection laws.

Rex Lee, Tech Journalist and Cybersecurity Advisor, explains that AI is dangerous because it has been programmed and trained to be dangerous, and that existing consumer protection, child safety, and privacy laws must be enforced to hold AI companies accountable for the harms their systems can cause.

Dialpad, a longtime sponsor partner of TechTalk Summits, has been named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS).

The recognition lands squarely in TechTalk's wheelhouse: it's the kind of forward-thinking innovation we look for when we bring speakers and sponsors to the stage. It's also a signal that the conversations happening at our events aren't just timely — they're happening with the companies actually shaping where the UCaaS industry is headed.

CyberTalkTV with My Smart Security Advisor, Rex. M Lee

The Electronic Bill of Rights (EBOR) is a digital-rights framework grounded in existing laws and constitutional protections for privacy and property. It aims to restore individual sovereignty over your Name, Image, Likeness, and Data (NILD)—your Digital Twin.

EBOR calls for banning addictive design and surveillance capitalism, protecting people from unauthorized exploitation of personal data, and holding tech companies meaningfully accountable.

Most importantly, it pushes for criminal liability—not just civil lawsuits, fines, and settlements—for unlawful conduct by Big Tech executives and corporations.

NTD News China in Focus interviews Security Advisor Rex M. Lee

Rex breaks down cybersecurity threats associated with Tech-Based Hyrid Warfare and how to protect your data in the AI age, plus the need for an Electronic Bill of Rights (EBOR).

Rex explains that EBOR is centered on the enforcement of existing consumer protection, child protection, FCC privacy, and national security laws such as The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversarial Controlled Applications Act of which the Trump administration is not enforcing.

Hosted by Rex M. Lee

Lockheed Martin Cyber Attack: Did Iran Steal F-35 Secrets?

In this TechStorm special report, Rex M. Lee examines claims made by the hacker group known as APT Iran, which alleges it exfiltrated approximately 375 terabytes of data from Lockheed Martin, one of America's largest defense contractors.

By Rex M. Lee Security Advisor | My Smart Privacy

Security advisor Rex M. Lee investigates why IDEMIA, a French identity-security firm, processes passports, fingerprints, and facial recognition data for the TSA, CBP, and FBI. With IDEMIA's public-security division now being sold to Spain's Amadeus IT Group, Lee asks the bigger question: why is any foreign-owned company trusted with America's most sensitive biometric data?

Rex Lee, Security Advisor and Tech Journalist explains that modern technology and data-driven systems are increasingly used to influence behavior and public opinion, while efforts to regulate these practices are complicated by widespread reliance on the same technologies across politics, business, and society.

Security advisor and tech journalist Rex Lee of My Smart Privacy confronts a provocative question: Is China quietly winning the global data center buildout — and with it, the AI race? Drawing on years of research, he makes the case for what he believes the evidence overwhelmingly shows.