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Livestream: House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on Artificial Intelligence and Counterterrorism
The House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Counterterrorism: Possibilities and Limitations” at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday. A video of the hearing is avai... -
A Method for Establishing Liability for Data Breaches
Last month, the First American Financial Corporation—which provides title insurance for millions of Americans—acknowledged a cybersecurity vulnerability that potentially exposed 885 million private finan... -
Open Letter to GCHQ on the Threats Posed by the Ghost Proposal
Last fall, Lawfare published a piece by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson of GCHQ entitled Principles for a More Informed Exceptional Access Debate. -
New Perspectives on the Future of Encryption
Encryption and its effects on law enforcement’s access to data seem to occupy a perennial place in the headlines (and on Lawfare as well). The two of us have been working on it for years. The subject is ... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Bonus Edition: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman on 'Of Privacy and Power'
On April 23, the Hoover Institution hosted the latest iteration of the Security by the Book series, where Jack Goldsmith interviewed Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman about their new book, “Of Privacy and... -
Document: FISC Releases 2018 Annual Report
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has released its annual report for 2018. The document is available here and below. -
The Massachusetts High Court Rules That State Can Compel Password Decryption in Commonwealth v. Jones
In Commonwealth v. Jones, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held, for the second time in five years, that the government may compel a defendant to unlock an electronic device under certain circums... -
The Cloud Act Is Not a Tool for Theft of Trade Secrets
After last year’s passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Cloud Act), officials and journalists in the European Union have ramped up criticism of the American desire for extraterritori... -
Road to Adequacy: Can California Apply Under the GDPR?
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Document: Justice Department Did Not Rely on Whitaker in FISA Matters, FISC Says
On Thursday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued an order stating that the government "has not relied on any action taken by [former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker] in any submis... -
Principles of AI Governance and Ethics Should Apply to All Technologies
Despite Google’s recent dissolution of its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board, IT vendors (including Google) are increasingly defining principles to guide the development of AI applications and so... -
Document: Justice Department White Paper on the Cloud Act
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released a white paper on the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or Cloud Act, which was enacted in March 2018. The white paper, entitled “Promoting Publi...
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