"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interv…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two men linked to China’s Ministry of State Security of a decade-long campaign…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuffed my attempt to unseal information about the Department of Justice's unsuccessful secret effort to force Faceb…
Unpublished memorandum disposition by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the district court's denial of the petition. * Publication Type:Litigat…
"“The acknowledgement of an issue is a start, but if a ‘resolution’ means simply correcting the error, there are many questions that remain,” Elizabeth Joh…
"The rapporteurs’ message, according to Stanford researcher Daphne Keller, was that “using filters in this context is going to take down news reporting. It…
Full piece available here. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed some companies and countries to develop contact tracing apps to know if users have been in contact wi…
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant pr…
Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved. “You might go into it thi…
"No one really knows just how often or widely the government has used the All Writs Act to force companies into surveillance, says Riana Pfefferkorn, assoc…
The theory behind cybersecurity information sharing is clear and uncontroversial, even if the details of what to share, how best to do it and who to share with…
"“I am a longtime (well, several month) critic of contact tracing apps because I don't think they will work, especially in an environment like the Unit…