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Legal Limits on the Transfer of Control to ICANN
As I wrote earlier this week, the big news recently in cyberspace was the announcement by the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, that it planned to effect... -
Turning Off Transponders -- Aviation Security and MH370
In an earlier post regarding MH370, I wondered why it was that transponders on airplanes were still capable of being turned off. I feel rather justified to realize that I’m not the only one asking the q... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #11: An Interview with Dan Novack
This week’s podcast covers the latest on NSA. We mock EFF overriding one of the privacy protections in NSA’s metadata program by killing the 5-year retention limit. We puzzle over the New York Times st... -
LOAC and the Crimea
A disturbing news item: it appears that Russian soldiers have killed at least one Ukrainian soldier at a Ukrainian military base in the Crimea, possibly heralding a violent resolution to the tense armed... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In breaking news, Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post report that the NSA uses a tool that records every single telephone conversation in a foreign country and stores it for thirty d... -
A Modest Proposal for NSA
I had an idea the other day---a way for NSA to serve the national interest, do good for humanity, and improve its public image all at once. Drum roll, please! NSA should get into the business of publishi... -
John Villasenor on "Preventing Technology-Facilitated Exploitation of Children"
My Brookings colleague John Villasenor, who is also an engineering professor at UCLA, writes in with the following: Last summer, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children and Thomson Reut... -
The Precedential Value of the Kosovo Non-Precedent Precedent for Crimea
When the Obama administration invoked the 1999 Kosovo intervention as a precedent in the run-up to the planned Syria invasion, I wrote a post that argued that Kosovo was not a precedent for lawful intern... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Yesterday 83% of eligible voters in Crimea cast their ballots in what most of the Western world denounced as an illegal referendum, and 95% voted in favor of joining Russia. -
From the Department of Dubious Civil Liberties Accomplishments
Amidst the flap between the CIA and the SSCI last week, you may have missed the news about the back-and-forth between NSA and the FISA court over whether the agency may, must, or mustn't retain telephony... -
The Week That Will Be
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Thinking about MH370
Fools, they say, rush in where angels fear to tread. Proving that I am less angelic than foolish (and confident that the blogosphere will quickly forget these musings), I thought I'd offer a few Homelan...
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