Latest in Surveillance & Privacy
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Lawfare Daily: Yaqiu Wang on Surveillance, Censorship, and Emerging Technologies in the PRC
A human right advocate discusses the role of emerging technologies in China’s surveillance apparatus. -
Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40
Listen to Michael Dreeben's opening remarks from an event marking 40 years of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. -
Kodak to Deepfakes: Publicity Rights and Abuse of Our Likenesses
As increasingly realistic deepfakes depict us against our will, a century-old law originally made for cameras may offer a solution. -
FBI Says Why Get a Warrant When You Have Kash
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: CPPA’s Tom Kemp on Data Brokers, Privacy, and State Enforcement
Breaking down California’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform. -
Fourth Amendment Law by Analogy
A review of Orin Kerr, “The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World,”(Oxford University Press, 2025). -
Lawfare Daily: National Security, Counterintelligence, and Counterespionage: A Guide for the Perplexed
Former FBI Agent Derek Pieper explains counterintelligence and counterespionage investigations. -
Spyware-Based Searches for Domestic Criminal Law Enforcement
NSO Group’s and Paragon’s targeting of American markets warrant evaluation of spyware’s potential implications for domestic criminal justice. -
Huawei Is Betting on the Future with HarmonyOS
HarmonyOS is positioning itself as the operating system through which billions of users could one day interact with Chinese AI worldwide. -
Lawfare Daily: Matt Olsen Talks Iran, the Justice Department, and FISA 702
Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matt Olsen joins Lawfare Daily. -
The Situation: Thinking About Anthropic’s Red Lines
What does the AI company mean by “mass surveillance” and “lethal autonomous warfare”? -
China’s Agentic AI Controversy
AI agents have sparked an urgent debate in China about data privacy and security that holds huge lessons for the U.S. and the future of AI everywhere.


