Why We Should Join the Movement to Save the Internet in Europe
Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal that will decide the future of the open Internet in Europe. The proposal is supposed to protect net ne…
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The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions
Pending before federal magistrate judge James Orenstein is the government’s request for an order obligating Apple, Inc. to unlock an iPhone and thereby assist p…
Europe Is About to Adopt Bad Net Neutrality Rules. Here’s How to Fix The
On Tuesday, October 27, the European Parliament will vote on rules intended to protect network neutrality in the European Union (EU). However, the proposal abou…
College textbooks are a racket
The Orange County Register reports that Alain Bourget, a math professor at Cal State Fullerton, is in danger of serious disciplinary action from his employer. H…
Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the…
What is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that Robert Kagan simply doesn’t get?
Showtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations scholars often fail to get. Global politics is less an…
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…
Here’s why the Iraq War may have helped trigger the financial crisis
Thomas Oatley is the author of “The Political Economy of American Hegemony: Booms, Buildups and Busts.” His book argues that when America goes to war it borrows…
New EU Law Will Tell U.S. What Can Be Said — And Built — On the Internet
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us. Last year’s so-called “right to be forgotten” case from the EU’…
Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
In William Gibson's latest novel, "The Peripheral," he imagines a future in which people have the ability to effortlessly encrypt spoken conversat…
Edward Snowden has proposed a new treaty. Here’s why it might or might not take off.
At the Council for Foreign Relations Web site, David Fidler says that Edward Snowden isn’t radical enough. He identifies three problems with the proposal that S…
The Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report on Extraterritoriality Speaks to Migrant Crisis
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan E. Méndez, has issued a new expert’s report (his 17th)—this one on extraterritoriality. (JustSecurity’s e…