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Evaluating the Russian Threat to Undersea Cables
Is vital internet infrastructure at risk from new Russian naval capabilities? NATO’s military leadership has warned in recent months that the Russian navy is aggressively probing undersea communications ... -
International Law and Cyberspace: Evolving Views
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Summary: The EU General Data Protection Regulation
After four years of negotiation, the European Parliament approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on April 14, 2016. Enforcement is scheduled to begin May 25. This post provides a high-leve... -
Summaries: Commerce Section 232 and GAO Cybersecurity Framework Adoption Reports
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The Danger of Deepfakes: Responding to Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron
Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron have painted a truly depressing picture of a future in which faked video and audio cannot be distinguished from the real thing. And I think they are right to be depresse... -
Facebook's Policies Pressed From All Sides as Europe Cracks Down
February has been a particularly bad month in a bad two years for Facebook. Following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians and three organizations in connection with running a disin... -
Understanding Data Breaches as National Security Threats
For decades the theft of private individuals’ data has been treated as an annoyance. Activist state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have pursued cases, but U.S. laws fail to treat thef... -
Kaspersky Lab v. DHS: The Government's Response and Kaspersky's Reply
In December 2017, the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security over an order labeling Kaspersky software an “information security risk” and ord... -
2018 Election Vulnerability: Voter Registration Systems
The Russian information-operation strategy can be summed up as “chaos monkeys”: agents seeking to destabilize the United States by exploiting fissures in our society. The Mueller indictments announced Fr... -
The East West Institute's New Report on Encryption: A Review
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Deepfakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
“We are truly fucked.” That was Motherboard’s spot-on reaction to deepfake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person’s face into sex scenes actually involving other people). And that sleazy... -
Indicting Hackers Made China Behave, But Russia Will Be Harder
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller released the indictment of the "Internet Research Agency LLC," also known as the Russian troll factory, and a number of other entities and individuals.
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