Wow, that was quick. I haven’t even turned on the air conditioning at home yet, and already we’ve done the last podcast of the summer.  The Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast will go on hiatus for August and retur...

Our guest this week is noted computer law guru Orin Kerr, and the podcast is a deep dive into technology and law.

It was a big week at the D.C. Circuit, which handed down the en banc decision in the Al Bahlul military commission case. It's a complicated decision: a mess of a procedural history, lots of separate opin...

Our guest this week is Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), David Medine.  We do a deep dive into the 702 program and the PCLOB’s report recommending several changes to it.

As the election crisis in Afghanistan comes to a head, all eyes---or some of them, anyway---are once again on the future of Afghan democracy. But the United States's history in the region extends back mu...

Our guest this week is David Heyman, who recently completed a tour as DHS’s Assistant Secretary for Policy (my old job).  David has had a long and productive career in homeland security, in government, a...

Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Microsoft, recently discussed the future of privacy in an increasingly digital age at a Brookings event entitled, "The Future of Global Technol...

All roads lead to Iran---at least in the news these days. There's the nuclear talks, which are coming to a head. There's common interests between the United States and the Islamic Republic in the conflic...

This week in NSA: The House passes an NDAA amendment to regulate “secondary” searches of 702 data, and the prize for Dumbest NSA Story of the Month Award goes to Andrea Peterson of the Washington Post fo...

Brookings Senior Fellows Kenneth Pollack, Suzanne Maloney, and Michael O’Hanlon discussed the evolving security crisis in Iraq on Thursday at a Brookings event entitled "Iraq in Crisis: What Options Does...

Our guest for the week, Paul Rosenzweig, requires no introduction on this site.

On Tuesday, at the 2014 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, a panel of experts debated the pros and cons of adding outside lawyers to litigation before two tribunals at the heart of the NSA survei...

As I noted earlier, the Brookings Institution held a debate on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures.

We begin this week’s podcast with Edward Snowden’s NBC interview and the kerfuffle over his claim to have raised concerns about the agency’s intelligence programs before he launched his campaign of leaks...

Brookings held a great event this week, entitled: "The Allure of Normalcy: America’s Leadership in the World and President Obama’s Foreign Policy." It featured Robert Kagan on his impressive new essay in...

For the first time, we begin the podcast not with NSA on the defensive, but with breaking news of an American counterattack on Chinese cyberspying---the indictment of several PLA members for breaking int...