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Indiana is known for several things—the Indy 500, Hoosiers basketball, Notre Dame football, and corn. Cybersecurity does not typically make that shortlist, but perhaps it should. Read more about Zoom Inside: The Case for Cybersecurity Clinics and What They Can Teach Your Firm
When cyberattacks come from abroad, there’s special panic. We often imagine them to be the opening volleys of a cyberwar that could escalate into a kinetic war. For that reason, hacking back—or cyber-counterattacking—is presumed to be too dangerous to allow. Read more about Hacking Back Is Ethical in the Cyber Frontier
Indiana is known for several things – the Indy 500, Hoosiers basketball, Notre Dame football, and corn. Cybersecurity does not typically make that shortlist, but perhaps it should. Read more about Zoom Inside: The Case for Cybersecurity Clinics and What They Can Teach Your Firm
Last week, we argued that the public discussion surrounding two of the government’s most controversial mass surveillance programs – PRISM and Upstream – has not sufficiently acknowledged the broad scope of collection under these programs, which take place under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In short, hiding behind the counterterrorism justifications for section 702 is a broad surveillance program that sucks up massive amounts of irrelevant private data. Read more about Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part II
With the recent announcement, the US Department of Transportation is enthusiastically embracing automated driving. It’s saying that self-driving vehicles are coming in some form (or many forms) and that the agency can play a role not only in supervising but also in assisting this transportation transformation. The DOT is recognizing the wide range of relevant technologies, applications, and business models and is striving to address them more quickly and flexibly through its wide range of prospective and retrospective regulatory tools. Read more about US Department of Transportation issues guidance for automated driving
The legal authority behind the controversial PRISM and Upstream surveillance programs used by the NSA to collect large swaths of private communications from leading Internet companies – Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2017. In recent months, Congress began to review these programs to assess whether to renew, reform, or retire section 702. Unfortunately, it appears the debate has already been skewed by misconceptions about the true scope of surveillance conducted under the contentious provision. Read more about Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform
There is a great deal of buzz surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), which is the notion, simply put, that nearly everything not currently connected to the Internet from gym shorts to streetlights soon will be. The rise of “smart products” holds the promise to revolutionize business and society. Applications are seemingly endless. Read more about When Toasters Attack: 5 Steps to Improve the Security of Things
Recent US airstrikes against ISIL targets in Libya raise an intriguing question: does the International Criminal Court (ICC) have jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute US actions there? Read more about Does the Int’l Criminal Court Have Jurisdiction Over U.S. Forces in Libya?
The European Commission — the European Union’s main regulatory body — has hit Apple with a whopping estimated $14.5 billion bill for unpaid taxes. While the commission had been expected to rule against Apple, both Apple and the U.S. government had hoped for a much smaller amount. Here is how it happened — and why U.S. taxpayers may end up having to pay most of the bill. Read more about Why U.S. taxpayers may pay most of the bill for Apple’s $14.5 billion tax judgment
As noted by Alex Whiting in his piece last week, the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law (IHL), contains broad principles and prohibitions that are applied to a set of concrete facts in the context of any armed conflict. This analysis happens both ex ante—as a target set is being identified and an attack is launched—and ex post—when a completed operation is being evaluated for its compliance with IHL, including the war crimes prohibitions. Read more about Evaluating Proportionality and Long-Term Civilian Harm under the Laws of War