War Crimes and the Use of Improvised and Indiscriminate Weapons in Syria
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a continuing series about alleged war crimes in Syria. You can find the previous installments here and here. While several…
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Called Out The Global Consequences of Apple's Fight With the FBI
By now, the details of Apple’s fight with the FBI are well known: the FBI wants access to an iPhone belonging to the deceased terrorism suspect Syed Farook, who…
Outcome of FBI fight with Apple will affect your privacy
The legal dispute between the FBI and Apple over a locked iPhone is clouded in technical details that are hard for many to understand, an unclear area of law, a…
What the Past of Robotics Law Says About Its Future
One day, robots will present difficult legal challenges. This seems to be the consensus among commentators. And who am I to disagree? I have myself argued, righ…
This is how unethical financial advisers can get away with it
Economists Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru have an eye-opening new academic research paper on the “market for financial adviser misconduct.” They use dat…
Here Be Dragons
A Review of Adam Segal's The Hacked World Order (PublicAffairs, 2016). There have been many books written on cybersecurity over the last several years—this…
Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will still shape the Republican Party.
Last week, Marc Short, who had played a key role in the politically active billionaire Koch brothers’ organization Freedom Partners, moved to a senior role in R…
Computer security is necessary for journalist safety
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published, in Spanish, in El País. This week, journalists, technologists, and other human rights advocates will…
The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties
It is not often that a legal battle over smartphone firmware captures the national imagination, but such is the case as the FBI tries to access the data contain…
Apple v the FBI: why the 1789 All Writs Act is the wrong tool
Apple’s celebrated fight with the FBI over the security of its encrypted iPhones has shone the spotlight on an old and obscure federal law from 1789 known as th…
Iraq & Syria: Prospects for Accountability
On February 10, 2016, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission convened a Congressional briefing devoted to the topic of advancing accountability for the commissi…
Who Sets the Rules of the Privacy and Security Game?
Last week’s big cybersecurity news was that the FBI obtained a court order to force Apple to develop new software that would bypass several iPhone security feat…