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NRC Report on Bulk Collection of SIGINT: Technical Options
Hot off the press ... Via the Abstract: The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in President…
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The Reception of Google Spain v Costeja in Germany: Obedience and Disobedience
National courts continue to try to interpret what the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) Google Spain v Costeja (Right to Be Forgotten) ruling means. On Dece…
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Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year. In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argu…
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CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)
Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…
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Charlie Hebdo and the Problem of Structural Surveillance
With the horrifying attacks in Paris yesterday, we were witness, once again, to the remorseless brutality that can arise from extremist thinking that refuses to…
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Aaron Swartz and Cybercrime Prosecutions
Aaron Swartz died this month two years ago. On the evening of January 21, the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee is hosting an event about Aa…
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CIS Affiliates 2014-2016 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2014-2016 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following:Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriAnnemarie BridyPeter AsaroRyan Ca…
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The Sony Hack: A Warning for Internet Policy
The Sony incident reminds us again about the fragile yet constantly shifting state of cybersecurity and Internet policy. Clearly the international political ra…
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“Tool Without A Handle”: Privacy and Regulation – An Expanded Rationale
In the previous blog, I noted that the logical next step in understanding “privacy as fairness” was to examine if it is possible to identify principles that wou…
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New Year's Resolution: Be better at blogging
I've been a CIS non-resident fellow (or now faculty afflilaite) now for a decade, beginning in 2004. I love being associated with CIS, and many of my close…
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The MLAT roadmap - visualizing how the process actually works
When I first started working on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), they were seen as the less glamorous, hard-working cousin of extradition treaties. An…
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November 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
November 2014 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-november Retrospect is the monthly newsletter o…