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DOJ and Apple File Briefs in EDNY Encryption Case
At the request of Judge James Orenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, over the course of last week, Apple filed two briefs and the government filed one regarding the fe... -
So What's in the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act?
On October 8, Governor Jerry Brown of California approved Senate Bill (S.B.) 178, or the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, designed to designed to strengthen electronic privacy against la... -
Standing, Grandstanding and NSA Surveillance
“I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you” best explains why it is difficult to provide meaningful redress for targets of intelligence surveillance. How can anyone challenge surveillance programs ... -
A Safe Harbor Briefing from Giovanni Buttarelli
Yesterday, DataGuidance and Sidley Austin LLP hosted a live Q&A wilth Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), to discuss the state of play following the European Court of Jus... -
Redress for NSA Surveillance: The Devil Is in the Details
For years, European officials have been asking for the United States to make available to citizens of the European Union some form of redress for privacy harms. To address this concern, one idea has been... -
Drone Registration Plan from US Department of Transportation
According to NBC News (October 16, 2015), the U.S. Department of Transportation is about to announce a plan to require every purchaser of a drone to register it with the U.S. government. The plan is app... -
The NSA and Weak-DH
The authors of the weak Diffie-Hellman work are almost certainly correct that the technique they describe is used by the NSA, in bulk, to perform a massive amount of decryption on Internet traffic. This... -
Can NSA Crack Public Key Encryption?
Much ink has been expended over the past few months over the Administration's floated idea of requiring encryption back doors in new technology implementions -- an idea that, for now, the Administration ... -
Congress Should Declassify the Legislative Negotiations Over the FISA Amendments Act
On October 5, Third Way and the R Street Institute sent a joint request to the respective leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The letter asks the committees to declassify records of ... -
The Other Big Encryption News Last Week
President Obama’s waving the encryption white flag to Apple wasn’t the only big “going dark” news this week—and it’s not the only bad news for law enforcement. The courts continue to struggle with encryp... -
The Rhetoric of the Encryption Debate
In a Washington Post story on October 7 (that I just saw), Andrea Peterson writes about the inability of government authorities and privacy advocates to agree on the meaning of “strong encryption.” -
The Administration Decision on Encryption Policy
The New York Times reported on October 11, 2015 that The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices,...
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