A few items that caught my eye: FCC unveils new regulatory paradigm -- "In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has quietly worked to expand its role among federal agencies charged with ...

Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o...

I participated today in a CSIS/McAfee roll-out of their latest report on the economic impact of cybercrime.  Their bottom line is that cybercrime has an annual effect of roughly $455 billion globally, wi...

A few weeks ago, Ben posted some comments about a Der Spiegel article that suggested the tensions between the United States and Germany were likely to die down. Not so fast, it appears. Germany’s top pro...

The topic of net neutrality (i.e.

Following up on last weeks indictment of 5 Chinese PLA members for economic espionage, the Department of Justice continued yesterday its apparent prosecutorial offensive against cyber criminals.  The cas...

Curt Bradley’s thoughts are at AJIL Unbound, the Volokh Conspiracy has commentary by Nick Rosenkranz and Ilya Somin, and Jean Galbraith and

Professor Mike Lewis (Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law) writes in with the following guest post: There Is No Transparency Requirement for Drone Operations

Did you know that we have not carried out drone strikes in Pakistan since 2013?  A story from Ken Dilanian (now at AP) today does a nice job of laying out the many reasons why: 1. Fewer targets  ("Many ...

Two interesting items today: Shane Harris has a look inside the FBI's efforts to track the Chinese hackers.  Here's the intro: "SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German...

The 110-page document was released today, and entitled "Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability."   If you care about Big Data, then you will want to read the report.

One frequently sees the claim that CIA drone operations should be handed over to the military because the military is more transparent. I have frequently disparaged that argument, not because the CIA is ...