The very public fight between Apple and the FBI over the last six weeks has not only reinvigorated the broader debate over the “going dark” concern (and the larger, age-old tension between privacy and se...

I recently appeared on the Brown University Cybersecurity News Podcast to discuss bridging the lawyer and technology divide in the debate between Apple and the FBI. Interested Lawfare readers can listen ...

With the benefit of historical hindsight a few years from now, we may look back on March 2016 as a turning point in the debate over encryption, surveillance and civil liberties. The new phase of the deba...

First came the motion to compel Apple to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters; then Apple's motion to vacate; then the government's opposition to that motion. And now we have Apple's r...

Don’t look now but a new front is about to open up in the Second Crypto War. The Hill reports that the encryption legislation being drafted by Senate Intelligence Committee leaders Richard Burr and Diann...

The United Kingdom is considering its largest overhaul of laws governing electronic surveillance in 15 years. On March 1, the U.K. Home Secretary, Theresa May, introduced the Investigatory Powers Bill, a...

Here's the brief, which I haven't read yet. FBI Apple CDCal Govt Reply

Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on...

Last month, I was asked to participate in a genuinely unusual radio experiment: a trans-Atlantic town hall meeting hosted by PRI's America Abroad simultaenously in Austin Texas and Berlin. The subject wa...

Apple's general counsel sounds suspiciously like James Comey when he talks about a small messaging app that competes with his own product.

If the devil is in the details, then the announcement early Monday of the inner workings of the new US-EU data-transfer agreement, Privacy Shield, may lack the granularity the deal needs to flourish. The...