As has been reported widely, the White House Big Data review was released last week. Paul provided initial analysis. While the report does not seem to counsel dramatic action, several of the recommendati...

Wells and I and our Brookings colleague John Villasenor have begun a paper series of civilian robotics. Some of it is a little beyond normal Lawfare fare, but some of it will be in the heartland. The fir...

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of a report entitled At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Conc...

Stewart Baker began this week's Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast---which always opens with the week's NSA news---by noting that there was virtually no NSA news this week. That which did exist, moreover, was not ...

Editor’s Note: Sanctions seem to hit the sweet spot for policymakers when considering options for U.S. foreign intervention: unlike military force, sanctions don’t risk American lives and don’t feed the ...

You've likely heard: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee facing capital military commission charges, last month mounted a new habeas challenge in the district court for D.C.

The Administration has released its long-awaited, review of Big Data -- a report from the Executive Office of the President on the phenomenon of large-scale data collection and analysis.  The review was ...