As Raffaela noted earlier, Atlantic blogger Conor Friedersdorf has written in praise (sort of) of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer for the latter’s opposition to domestic drones. I would consid...

I've now had more of a chance to read through Judge Forrest's decision Wednesday in Hedges v. Obama, which (seems to) enter a preliminary injunction against some or all of section 1021 of the FY2012 Nati...

As usual, SCOTUSblog has a helpful post summarizing some of the key petitions for certiorari that the Supreme Court's nine Justices are set to review at their Conference this Friday. I just thought I'd f...

Well, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed the House last week.  Now that the dust has cleared (and before we move on to the coming Senate battles) it’s probably worthwhile looking at...

Based on a longer article I’d written on this topic, the Hoover Institution published today my essay “Policing Terrorism”, in its institutional journal, Defining Ideas. Here’s how it begins: In recent mo...

Susan Landau is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard's Computer Science Department, formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed b...

In an earlier post I commented on the politics of the cybersecurity debate.  I wrote: "One final piece of the political calculus is what the Administration wants.  Right now all public signs are that the...

Late yesterday, the House sponsors of the CISPA cybersecurity legislation (to be considered tomorrow) announced a series of amendments to the bill intended to address some of the concerns advanced by pri...

UCLA Professor John Villasenor and I have this oped coming out in tomorrow's Washington Post responding to calls for the Federal Aviation Administration to take action to protect privacy in the context i...

Over the past several weeks, I’ve written a number of blogs about the substance of the cybersecurity bills pending before Congress.  As the House moves to consider cyber legislation next week and as the ...

The House Homeland Security Committee has now released its own updated version of a cybersecurity bill.  The text is (Lungren Substitute April 2012).   This bill stands in pretty significant contrast to ...

The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23.  It's information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side.  Today, the Manager's filed a dr...