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PCLOB Releases Recommendations Assessment Report
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released its most recent Recommendations Assessment Report on Friday, February 5th. The Recommendations Assessment Report follows up on the 22 reco... -
Day Two: The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law Conference
Today is the second day of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin's conference on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity. You can watch the conference's panels live here: Belo... -
Live: The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law Conference
Today, the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin hosts a unique and timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity, which you can watch live here: Below is t... -
A Response to a Modest Backdoor Proposal
Ben Wittes makes a modest proposal to backdoor encryption by removing legal protections from service providers, but the modest proposal has some major problems. First, a backdoor mandate by any other nam... -
Essentially Equivalent: A Comparison of the Legal Orders for Privacy and Data Protection in the E.U. and U.S.
Sidley Austin has released Essentially Equivalent: A Comparison of the Legal Orders for Privacy and Data Protection in the European Union and United States. The report—authored by a transatlantic team of... -
Apple's Going Dark Doublespeak
“Going Dark” is really two separate, if related, debates. Apple is looking to be the voice of the tech industry on both. The problem is that the company can’t seem to keep its story straight, and it is a... -
Is There a National Security-Law Enforcement Divide on “Going Dark”?
Prior to the release of the new Berkman Center report, which included input from both current and former national security officials, recent attention had been focusing on NSA Director Rogers’ comments l... -
EU Commission Press Release on New EU-US Privacy Shield
U.S. and European Union data-regulators today reached a new legal framework that will govern the transfer of data across the Atlantic. The new agreement—called the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield—will replace t... -
An Out of the Box Approach to the Going Dark Problem
I’ve been thinking about out-of-the-box ways to address the "Going Dark" problem. Specifically, I am looking for approaches that potentially thread the needle between an industry allergic to any technolo... -
The National-Security Needs for Ubiquitous Encryption
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her... -
Security or Surveillance?
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society convened an interdisciplinary group to take on vexing questions of surveillance and cybersecurity. The group has now released the report “Don’t Panic.” Her... -
The Good News and the Troubling News: We’re Not Going Dark
Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy exp...
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