In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, Alex Stamos of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute talks about the Institute’s recent paper on the risk of Chinese social media interference with Taiwan’s upcoming presidential election. It’s a wide-ranging discussion of everything from a century of Chinese history to the reasons why WeChat lost a
Episode 248: Tomayto, Tomahto: Right to be Forgotten Meets Right to Die
If the surgeon about to operate on you has been disciplined for neglecting patients, wouldn’t you like to know? Well, the mandarins of the European Union privacy lobby beg to differ. Google has been told by a Dutch court not to index that story, and there seems to have been a six-month lag in disclosing even the court ruling. That’s part of this week’s News Roundup. Gus Hurwitz and I are appalled. I tout my long-standing view that in the end, privacy law just protects the privileged. Gus agrees.
The interview is with John Carlin, author of Dawn of the Code War. It’s a great inside story of how we came to indict China’s hacker-spies for attacking US companies.
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Why the House Information-Sharing Bill Could Actually Deter Information Sharing
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.
I fear that the House bill is indeed seriously flawed, but not because it invades privacy. Instead, it appears to pile unworkable new privacy regulations on
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Paul Rosenzweig
Episode 60 of the Cyberlaw Podcast features Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC and Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Most importantly he was a superb Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security when I was Assistant Secretary.
Paul discourses on the latest developments in ICANN, almost
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Dr. Andy Ozment
In episode 58 of the Cyberlaw Podcast, our guest is Andy Ozment, who heads the DHS cybersecurity unit charged with helping improve cybersecurity in the private sector and the civilian agencies of the federal government. We ask how his agency’s responsibilities differ from NSA’s and
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Mike Rogers
This episode of the podcast features Rep. Mike Rogers, former chairman of the House intelligence committee, Doug Kantor, our expert on all things cyber in Congress, and Maury Shenk, calling in from London. Mike Rogers is now a nationally syndicated radio host
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Juan Zarate
Our guest commentator for episode 49 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw podcast is Juan Zarate, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the senior national security analyst for CBS News, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Law School, and chairman and co-founder of the Financial Integrity Network. Before joining CSIS,
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Admiral David Simpson
Our guest today is Admiral David Simpson, Chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Admiral Simpson has more than 20 years of Information and Communications Technology experience supporting the Department of Defense. Adm. Simpson is joined by Clete Johnson, his Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity. The interview digs deep into Chairman Wheeler’s
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Orin Kerr
Our guest this week is Orin Kerr, professor of law at George Washington University and well-known scholar in computer crime law and Internet surveillance. Orin is our second return guest, and he demonstrates why, opining authoritatively on the future of NSA’s 215 program and the “mosaic” theory of fourth amendment privacy as well as joining
Inside Europe’s Censorship Machinery
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