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What’s Involved in Vetting a Security Protocol: Why Ray Ozzie’s Proposal for Exceptional Access Does Not Pass Muster
For almost a decade, the FBI has been stating that law enforcement is “going dark"—meaning it is increasingly unable to listen in to communications and, more recently, to open locked devices in which imp... -
Suggestions for Implementing the Cloud Act
At the end of March, President Trump signed the omnibus budget bill into law. -
Don't Read Too Much Into the Jump in Rejected FISA Applications
Recent headlines about foreign intelligence surveillance—e.g., “In Trump’s first year, FISA court denied record number of surveillance orders”—are misleading. -
War Machines: Artificial Intelligence in Conflict
PDF Version A review of Paul Scharre’s “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War” (W.W. Norton, 2018). *** -
Building on Sand Isn’t Stable: Correcting a Misunderstanding of the National Academies Report on Encryption
The encryption debate is messy. In any debate that involves technology—encryption, security systems and policy, law enforcement, and national security access—the incomparable complexities and tradeoffs m... -
EU Court of Justice Will Answer Questions on Facebook Data Transfers
On April 12, the High Court of Ireland referred 11 questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the legality of data transfers between Facebook’s Irish and U.S. corporate entities. -
China’s Strategic Ambiguity and Shifting Approach to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
On April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems announced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new protocol for the Convention on ... -
Document: Supreme Court Rules U.S. v. Microsoft Moot
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Microsoft, also known as Microsoft-Ireland, that the Cloud Act has rendered the case moot. The court’s per curiam opinion is below. -
Zuckerberg’s New Hate Speech Plan: Out With the Court and In With the Code
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week for over ten hours, but he had very little new to say. -
Livestream: Zuckerberg Testimony Before House Energy and Commerce
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read his prepared testimony here and watch the hearing live: -
Livestream: Zuckerberg Testifies Before Joint Senate Committee
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee are holding a joint hearing on Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. featuring testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerb... -
Predicting Enemies: Military Use of Predictive Algorithms
The growing military-use of predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence is stirring up corporate and academic protests. Consider, for instance, a recent Reuters report that 50 AI researchers from 3...
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