The landscape for privacy regulations in the United States has been changing almost weekly. Most recently, Oregon and Delaware joined California in enacting some of the strictest privacy regulations in the country. Now, amid increased public scrutiny regarding privacy regulations and enforcement, courts, too, are taking a closer examination of privacy laws and pumping the

On July 4 2023, the European Commission presented a Proposal for a Regulation laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (the Proposal). Divergent enforcement of the GDPR by national Supervisory Authorities (SAs) in cross-border cases – cases that affect individuals located in more than one Member

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

The House Intelligence Committee has now adopted a manager’s amendment to what it’s now calling the “Protecting Cyber Networks Act.”  Predictably, privacy groups are already inveighing against it.

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followed recent developments in censorship, the right to be forgotten is a European requirement that “irrelevant or outdated” information be excluded from searches about individuals.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