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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein personally approved Monday’s FBI raid on the office of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, the New York Times reports. The agents who raided ... -
Livestream: Zuckerberg Testifies Before Joint Senate Committee
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee are holding a joint hearing on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerb... -
Is Liberal Democracy Doomed to Fail?
PDF Version A review of Yascha Mounk, “The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It” (Harvard, 2018) *** -
Michael Cohen, Attorney-Client Privilege and the Crime-Fraud Exception
The world is awash in “hot takes” on the news that President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is under criminal investigation. On Monday, the FBI executed a search warrant at his home, his offic... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Chris Bing and Patrick Howell O’Neill
Our interview is with Chris Bing and Patrick Howell O’Neill of Cyberscoop. They’ve broken two cyberscoops in the last week or so. First, an in-depth look at Kaspersky’s outing of a U.S. cyberespionage pr... -
Trump Preparing Response to Assad Regime’s Chemical Attack
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Predicting Enemies: Military Use of Predictive Algorithms
The growing military-use of predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence is stirring up corporate and academic protests. Consider, for instance, a recent Reuters report that 50 AI researchers from 3... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In the next 24 to 48 hours, President Trump will decide whether to respond militarily to the chemical weapons attack carried out by the Assad regime on civilians in Douma, the New York Times reports. -
A New Framework for the Encryption Debate
The New York Times reported on March 24 that the FBI and Justice Department are again pushing for extraordinary access to encrypted data. This will certainly set off yet another round of the long-standin... -
Document: Zuckerberg Prepared Testimony for House Energy and Commerce Committee
On Monday morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee published the following prepared statement by Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and chief executive of Facebook, in advance of his testimony before that... -
‘Why Did You Wait?’: Moral Emptiness and Drone Strikes
Last week, the Washington Post reported a disturbing anecdote about President Trump’s visit to the CIA on his first full day in office: -
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems at the First and Second U.N. GGE Meetings
Based on trends in advancing robotics technology, many experts believe autonomous—and even lethal autonomous—robots are an inevitable and imminent development.
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