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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is an independent advisory body, established by the GDPR, that issues guidelines, recommendations, and best practices for the application of the GDPR.

At its Third Plenary on September 26, the EDPB adopted new draft guidelines on the GDPR’s territorial scope.

These guidelines should help provide a common interpretation of

The United States may have pioneered the idea of fighting wars in cyberspace, but it’s our adversaries who are using cyberattacks most effectively. To deter them, the country needs creative new ways to punish nations if they launch the devastating attacks that are within their grasp.Continue Reading Thinking the unthinkable about responding to cyberattacks

I hope you will join us on Thursday, May 7 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm for the “Triple Entente Beer Summit” at The Washington Firehouse (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC).  This live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Lawfare Podcast, and Rational Security – will be your chance

Cyberspies can’t count on anonymity any more.

The United States (and the private security firm Mandiant) stripped a PLA espionage unit of its cover two years ago with a detailed description of the unit’s individual hackers; that report was followed by federal indictments of members of the unit that described them and their activities is

If you think Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have stopped attacking NSA, you haven’t been following them closely enough.  While American media have largely lost interest in Snowden and Greenwald, the pair continue to campaign outside the United States against the intelligence agency.

Their most ambitious effort was in New Zealand, a member of the

Three months ago, I tried hacking Google’s implementation of Europe’s “right to be forgotten.”  For those of you who haven’t followed recent developments in censorship, the right to be forgotten is a European requirement that “irrelevant or outdated” information be excluded from searches about individuals.  The doctrine extends even to true information that remains on