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Creating an Internet Obscurity Center: Reducing the Burden of Google Spain on Businesses
In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that search engine operators in the EU are responsible for handling individuals’ requests to remove links to personal information that... -
Congress Should Embrace the DOJ’s Cross-Border Data Fix
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A Few Easy Steps to Campaign COMSEC
As experts debate the policy implications of the DNC hack and need for attribution, there appears to be consensus that campaigns need better cybersecurity. The unanswered question is how exactly to ensur... -
The Islamic State Threat to the Middle East
Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Shadi Hamid on "Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World"
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and the author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshapin... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump. -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, becoming the first woman to become a major party nominee in the United States. Clinton por... -
Statement from Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released the following remarks yesterday at Guantanamo Bay preceding pre-trial hearings in Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al. The hearings today and yesterda... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: Vlad's Cojones
I know we promised to take August off, but I was inspired by the flap over the DNC hack and the fact that I’m at the Aspen Homeland Security Working Group meeting in Colorado. I waylaid two former intell... -
"The Loneliest Job": Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and the Moral Requirements of the Presidency
President Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention has been widely understood as pointed thematic rebuke of Donald Trump. -
Lessons from Gaza: The Rhetoric and Reality of Independence in War Crimes Investigations
Critics of state investigations of alleged violations of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) often accuse those inquiries of being insufficiently independent from the chain of command. Medicins Sans (MSF, a... -
Two Factor Authentication and SMS -- No More
All are, by now, no doubt familiar with two factor authentication. It is the idea that when I try and log-in somewhere besides my user name and password I have to give additional authentication that ver...
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