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| Sep 8, 2026 | Visa Stablecoin Settlement Hits $20B: Smart Contract Replaces Bank Lockboxes for 160 Programs | By Ryan Cook
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| Jul 2, 2026 | Analysis:Britain's Paramount-Warner review may be aimed at commitments, not a veto | LONDON, July 2 : Britain's threat to intervene in the $110 billion Paramount-Warner deal could be less about blocking the transaction than extracting commitments on UK news, children's TV and investment, with the cost of any delay... |
| Jun 3, 2026 | AI Parenting Book: Google Translate Pioneer Argues 800 Billion AIs Need Better Parents | By Shannon Harwood
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| Feb 5, 2026 | How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks To One Of The “Friends Of Trump” | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Days into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, a cryptocurrency billionaire posted a video on X to his hundreds of thousands... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Seminar: IP That Matters - Behind Orexo’s Milestone Patent Win at the US Court | Seminar: IP That Matters - Behind Orexo’s Milestone Patent Win at the US Court
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| Sep 11, 2024 | Burford Capital celebrates its 15th anniversary | Burford's deep bench of management talent continues to grow and evolve
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of Burford Capital, the leading global finance and asset management firm f... |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Former Steptoe CFO Jacob Morvay Launches Morvay Consulting Group to Enhance Project Management for Professional Service Firms | Former Steptoe CFO Jacob Morvay Launches Morvay Consulting Group to Enhance Project Management for Professional Service Firms
Jacob Morvay, former CFO, launches Morvay Consulting Group to optimize project management in professional service ... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | ACTIVECYBER Reports Significant Adoption, Client Demand, and Innovation in First Half of 2024 | ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the first half of 2024 draws to a close, ACTIVECYBER, a leader in tailored cybersecurity solutions, celebrates unprecedented growth and dynamic product innovations, further solidifying its le... |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Former DHS/NSA Official Stewart Baker Decides He Can Help NSO Group Turn A Profit | NSO Group used to have everything going for it. It had plenty of customers and plenty of leeway to sell to some of the worst governments in the world. |
| Jun 13, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cryptopocalypse | It was a disastrous week for cryptocurrency in the United States, as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit against the two biggest exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on a theory that makes it nearly impossible to run a cryptocur... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interviewing Jimmy Wales Cofounder of Wikipedia | In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a rare survivor from the Internet Hippie Age, coexisting like a great herbivorous dinosaur with Facebook, Twitter, and the othe... |
| May 31, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: When AI Poses an Existential Risk to Your Law License | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast features the second half of my interview with Paul Stephan, author of The World Crisis and International Law. But it begins the way many recent episodes have begun, with the latest AI news. And, since it... |
| May 23, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Sam Altman-Fried Comes to Washington | This episode features part 1 of our two-part interview with Paul Stephan, author of The World Crisis and International Law—a deeper and more entertaining read than the title suggests. Paul lays out the long historical arc that links the 198... |
| May 16, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: EUthanizing AI | Maury Shenk opens this episode with an exploration of three efforts to overcome notable gaps in the performance of large language AI models. OpenAI has developed a tool meant to address the models’ lack of explainability. It uses, naturally... |
| May 9, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: How Worried Should We Be About “Existential” AI Risk? | The “godfather of AI” has left Google, offering warnings about the existential risks for humanity of the technology. Mark MacCarthy calls those risks a fantasy, and a debate breaks out between Mark, Nate Jones, and me. There’s more agreemen... |
| May 2, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Does the Government Need a Warrant to Warn Me About a Cyberattack? | We open this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast with some actual news about the debate over renewing section 702 of FISA. That’s the law that allows the government to target foreigners for a national security purpose and to intercept their com... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: It’s the Data (Not the Model), Stupid! | The latest episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast was not created by chatbots (we swear!). Guest host Brian Fleming, along with guests Jay Healey, Maury Shenk, and Nick Weaver, discuss the latest news on the AI revolution including Google’s effort... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The International Regulatory Dogpile | Every government on the planet announced last week an ambition to regulate artificial intelligence. Nate Jones and Jamil Jaffer take us through the announcements. What’s particularly discouraging is the lack of imagination, as governments d... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: What Makes AI Safe? | We do a long take on some of the AI safety reports that have been issued in recent weeks. Jeffery Atik first takes us through the basics of attention based AI, and then into reports from OpenAI and Stanford on AI safety. Exactly what AI saf... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Letting the Chips Fall | Dmitri Alperovitch joins the Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss the state of semiconductor decoupling between China and the West. It’s a broad movement, fed by both sides. China has announced that it’s investigating Micron to see if its memory chi... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: China in the Bull Shop | The Capitol Hill hearings featuring TikTok’s CEO lead off episode 450 of the Cyberlaw Podcast. The CEO handled the endless stream of Congressional accusations and suspicion about as well as could have been expected. And it did him as little... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: AI Everywhere | GPT-4’s rapid and tangible improvement over ChatGPT has more or less guaranteed that it or a competitor will be built into most new and legacy information and technology (IT) products. Some applications will be pointless; but some will chan... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: More National Security Economic Regulation on Congress’s Docket | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast kicks off with the sudden emergence of a serious bipartisan effort to impose new national security regulations on what companies can be part of the U.S. Information Technology and content supply chain. S... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Software Liability | Episode 446 of the Cyberlaw Podcast was devoted to a long interview on the U.S. national cybersecurity strategy with Chris Inglis, until recently the national cybersecurity director, so this episode focuses on the most controversial recomme... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Chris Inglis on the National Cybersecurity Strategy | Chris Inglis was the first national cyber director at the White House, after a long and highly successful career at the National Security Agency (ending with seven years as deputy director). In his role as cyber director, he brought the off... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Group Autopsy of the Supreme Court’s Section 230 Oral Argument | As promised, the Cyberlaw Podcast devoted half of this episode to an autopsy of Gonzalez v. Google LLC , the Supreme Court’s first opportunity in a quarter century to construe section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. And an autopsy is... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: AI Off the Rails | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast opens with a look at some genuinely weird behavior by the Bing AI chatbot—dark fantasies, professions of love, and lies on top of lies—plus the factual error that wrecked the rollout of Google’s AI searc... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Who Needs Hackers When You Have Balloons? | The latest episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast gets a bit carried away with the China spy balloon saga. Guest host Brian Fleming, along with guests Gus Hurwitz, Nate Jones, and Paul Rosenzweig, share insights (and bad puns) about the latest rep... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Phony Cybersecurity Regulation | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is dominated by stories about possible cybersecurity regulation. David Kris points us first to an article by the leadership of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration in Foreign Affa... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Suddenly, Everyone Is Gunning for Google | The big cyberlaw story of the week is the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google and the many hats it wears in the online ad ecosystem. Lee Berger explains the Justice Department’s theory, which is not dissimilar to the Texas... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Tracers in the Dark by Andy Greenberg | In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Andy Greenberg, long-time WIRED reporter, about his new book, “Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.” This is Andy’s second author interview on... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Sun Also Sets, on Section 702 | The Cyberlaw Podcast kicks off 2023 by staring directly into the sun(set) of Section 702 authorization. The entire panel, including guest host Brian Fleming and guests Michael Ellis and David Kris, debates where things could be headed this ... |
| Jan 10, 2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Dispatch from the Great Tech Battlefront | Our first episode for 2023 features Dmitri Alperovitch, Paul Rosenzweig, and Jim Dempsey trying to cover a months’ worth of cyberlaw news. Dmitri and I open with an effort to summarize the state of the tech struggle between the U.S. and Chi... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Bonus Episode: How Privilege Undermines Cybersecurity | This bonus episode is an interview with Josephine Wolff and Dan Schwarcz, who along with Daniel Woods have written an article with the same title as this post. Their thesis is that breach lawyers have lost perspective in their no-holds-barr... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: ChatGPT Successfully Imitates a Talented Sociopath with Too Many Lawyers | It’s been a news-heavy week, but we have the most fun in this episode with ChatGPT. Jane Bambauer, Richard Stiennon, and I pick over the astonishing number of use cases and misuse cases disclosed by the release of ChatGPT for public access.... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Location, Location, Location | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast delves into the use of location technology in two big events—the surprisingly outspoken lockdown protests in China and the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Both were seen as big threats to the government... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Empire Strikes Back, at Twitter | The Cyberlaw Podcast leads with the legal cost of Elon Musk’s anti-authoritarian takeover of Twitter. Turns out that authority figures have a lot of weapons, many grounded in law, and Twitter is at risk of being on the receiving end of thos... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Election Aftershocks for Cyberlaw | We open this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast by considering the (still evolving) results of the 2022 midterm election. Adam Klein and I trade thoughts on what Congress will do. Adam sees two years in which the Senate does nominations, the H... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: AI-splaining | The war that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on. Cybersecurity experts have spent much of 2022 trying to draw lessons about cyberwar strategies from the conflict. Dmitri Alperovitch takes us through the latest lessons, cau... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Coming Soon: TwitTok! | You heard it on the Cyberlaw Podcast first, as we mash up the week’s top stories: Nate Jones commenting on Elon Musk’s expected troubles running Twitter at a profit and Jordan Schneider noting the U.S. government’s creeping, halting moves t... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Is the FBI Lost in Cyberspace? | This episode features Nick Weaver, Dave Aitel and I covering a Pro Publica story (and forthcoming book) on the difficulties the FBI has encountered in becoming the nation’s principal resource on cybercrime and cybersecurity. We end up concl... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Curing Bias or Causing It? Evaluating the White House AI Bill of Rights | It’s been a jam-packed week of cyberlaw news, but the big debate of the episode is triggered by the White House blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. I’ve just released a long post about the campaign to end “AI bias” in general, and the bluep... |
| Oct 4, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Big Tech’s Chickens Coming Home to Roost | We open today’s episode by teasing the Supreme Court’s decision to review whether section 230 protects big platforms from liability for materially assisting terror groups whose speech they distribute (or even recommend). I predict that this... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: President DeSantis’s First Supreme Court Nominee | This episode features a much deeper, and more diverse, examination of the Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas’s social media law. We devote the last half of the episode to a structured dialogue about the opinion between Adam Candeub and ... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Judge Oldham Bails Out Texas | The big news of the week was a Fifth Circuit decision upholding Texas social media regulation law. It was poorly received by the usual supporters of social media censorship but I found it both remarkably well written and surprisingly persua... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: All the Cyberlaw You Missed in August | This is our return-from-hiatus episode. Jordan Schneider kicks things off by recapping passage of a major U.S. semiconductor-building subsidy bill, while new contributor Brian Fleming talks with Nick Weaver about new regulatory investment r... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cyber Persistence | Just when you thought you had a month free of the Cyberlaw Podcast, it turns out that we are persisting, at least a little. This month we offer a bonus episode, in which Dave Aitel and I interview Michael Fischerkeller, one of three authors... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Dusty Old Industrial Policy Gets Dusted Off* | As Congress barrels toward an election that could see at least one house change hands, efforts to squeeze big bills into law are mounting. The one with the best chance (and better than I expected) would drop $52 billion in cash and a boatlo... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cybersecurity’s First Crash Report | Kicking off a packed episode, the Cyberlaw Podcast calls on Megan Stifel to cover the first Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) Report. The CSRB does exactly what those of us who supported the idea hoped it would do—provide an authoritative vi... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: “The First Thing We Do, Let’s Hack All the Lawyers” | Dave Aitel introduces a deliciously shocking story about lawyers as victims and—maybe—co-conspirators in the hacking of adversaries’ counsel to win legal disputes. The trick, it turns out, is figuring out how to benefit from hacked document... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Small Door and Too Many Fat Men: Congress’s Tech Agenda | It’s that time again on the Congressional calendar. All the big, bipartisan tech initiatives that looked so good a few months ago are beginning to compete for time on the floor like fat men desperate to get through a small door. And tech lo... |
| Jun 22, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Is This Podcast Sentient? | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast begins by digging into a bill more likely to transform tech regulation than most of the proposals you’ve actually heard of—a bipartisan effort to repeat U.S. Senator John Cornyn’s bipartisan success in t... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Privacy and the Press: Interviewing Amy Gajda | This bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is an interview with Amy Gajda, author of “Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy.” Her book is an accessible history of the often obscure and sometimes “curlicued” interaction ... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: We Go To RSA So You Don't Have To | This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is dominated by things that U.S. officials said in San Francisco last week at the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) conference. We summarize what they said and offer our views of why they said it.
Bobby Chesne... |
| Jun 7, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: “And the Prize for Most Lawyer-Whipped Cyberforce on the Planet Goes to …” | For decades, U.S. cyber exploits were notoriously lawyer-ridden, to the point where it was a key element of attribution. But it looks like Israel has matched and surpassed U.S. cyberwarriors. In an attack claimed by some “hacktivist” group ... |
| May 24, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: But Was The Sex Viewpoint-Neutral? | This week’s Cyberlaw Podcast covers efforts to pull the Supreme Court into litigation over the Texas law treating social media platforms like common carriers and prohibiting them from discriminating based on viewpoint when they take posts d... |
| May 17, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: An End to End-to-End Encryption? | Is the European Union (EU) about to rescue the FBI from Going Dark? Jamil Jaffer and Nate Jones tell us that a new directive aimed at preventing child sex abuse might just do the trick, a position backed by people who’ve been fighting the b... |
| May 5, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Google’s Spamgate | Retraction: An earlier episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast may have left the impression that I think Google hates mothers. I regret the error. It appears that, in reality, Google only hates Republican mothers who are running for office. But to ... |
| May 1, 2022 | The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post | Roger Parloff explained why Steve Bannon’s contempt prosecution revolves around his attorney, Robert J. Costello.
Evan Wallach argued that the Russian military is knowingly committing war crimes.
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the La... |
| Apr 27, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Have Facebook And Google Cornered The Market on Antitrust Troubles? | Just one week of antitrust litigation news shows how much turbulence Facebook and Google are encountering. Michael Weiner gives us a remarkably compact summary of the many issues, from deeply historical (Facebook’s purchase of Instagram) to... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Confirmation Bias Meets Ukraine War and Elon Musk | Whatever else the pundits are saying about the use of cyberattacks in the Ukraine war, Dave Aitel notes, they all believe it confirms their past predictions about cyberwar. Not much has been surprising about the cyber weapons the parties ha... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Rupert Murdochizing The Internet | The theme of this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is, “Be careful what you wish for.“ Techlash regulation is burgeoning around the world. Mark MacCarthy takes us through a week’s worth of regulatory enthusiasm. Canada is planning to force G... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: All At Sea: Maritime Cybersecurity | Spurred by a Cyberspace Solarium op-ed, Nate Jones gives an overview of cybersecurity worries in the maritime sector, where there is plenty to worry about. I critique the U.S. government’s December 2020 National Maritime Cybersecurity Strat... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Transatlantic Privacy Threepeat | With the U.S. and Europe united in opposing Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a few tough transatlantic disputes are being swept away—or at least under the rug. Most prominently, the data protection crisis touched off by Schrems 2 has been resolv... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Cavalcade of Paranoia | A special reminder that we will be doing episode 400 live on video and with audience participation on March 28, 2022 at noon Eastern daylight time. So, mark your calendar and when the time comes, use this link to join the audience:
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| Mar 17, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Scarlett Johannsson Appears on the Cyberlaw Podcast | A special reminder that we will be doing episode 400 live on video and with audience participation on March 28, 2022 at noon Eastern daylight time. So mark your calendar and when the time comes, use this link to join the audience:
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| Mar 8, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Digital Curtain Descends Across Europe | Much of this episode is devoted to new digital curtain falling across Europe. Gus Horwitz and Mark-MacCarthy review the tech boycott that has seen companies like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Adobe pull their service from Russia. Nick Weave... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Waging War in a Networked Age | Much of this episode is devoted to how modern networks and media are influencing what has become a major shooting war between Russia and Ukraine. Dmitri Alperovitch gives a sweeping overview. Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cyberwar For Real This Time? | Troops and sanctions and accusations are coming thick and fast in Ukraine as we record the podcast. Michael Ellis draws on his past experience at the National Security Council (NSC) to guess how things are going at the White House, and we b... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cringe-Casting Since 2016 | The Cyberlaw Podcast has decided to take a leaf from the (alleged) Bitcoin Bandits’ embrace of cringe rap. No more apologies. We’re proud to have been cringe-casting for the last six years. Scott Shapiro, however, shows that there’s a lot m... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Ad-Based Internet: Is The Roof Caving In, Or Just A Few Rafters? | Another week, another industry-shaking antitrust bill from Senate Judiciary: This time, it’s the Open App Store Act, and Mark MacCarthy reports that it’s got more bipartisan support than the last one. Maybe that’s because there are only two... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Regulatory Swagger Comes to Washington | All of Washington is back from Christmas break, and suddenly the Biden administration is showing a sharp departure from the Obama and Clinton years where regulation of Big Tech is concerned. Regulatory swagger is everywhere.
Treasury regula... |
| Jan 25, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: How Much of The Quantum Tech Boom is Just Welfare for Physicists? | That’s the question I had after reading Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, by Chris Hoofnagle and Simson Garfinkel. It’s a gracefully written and deeply informative look at the commercial and policy prospects of quantum computing and sever... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Have Facebook and Google Cornered The Market On Antitrust Troubles? | Just one week of antitrust litigation news shows how much turbulence Facebook and Google are encountering. Michael Weiner gives us a remarkably compact summary of the many issues, from deeply historical (Facebook’s purchase of Instagram) to... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The FTC Jumps Into Log4j Cleanup With One Foot | The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) other foot, I argue, is lodged firmly in its mouth. Tatyana Bolton defends the agency, which released what can only be described as a regulatory blog post in response to the log4j vulnerability, invoking... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: China Dive | One of the good things about coming back from Christmas break are all the deep analyses that news outlets save up to publish over the holidays—especially those they can report from countries where celebrating Christmas isn’t that big a deal... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Silicon Valley Speech Suppression Is Going To The Supreme Court | At least that’s the lesson that Paul Rosenzweig and I distill from the recent 11th Circuit decision mostly striking down Florida’s law regulating social media platforms’ content “moderation” rules. We disagree flamboyantly on pretty much ev... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Ten Pounds of Cyberlaw in a Five-pound Sack | All the cyber litigation that didn’t get filed, or decided, over Thanksgiving finally hit the fan last week, and we’re still cleaning up. But first, I have to ask Dave Aitel for a sanity check on Log4Shell.
Does it really deserve a 10 out o... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Does a Dead Horse Have a Right to Self-Defense? | Federal district judge Robert Pitman has enjoined enforcement of Texas’s law regulating social media censorship. The ruling sparks a fight between me and Nate Jones that ranges from how much weight should be given to the speech rights of so... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: International Tech Policy Week | This week we celebrated International Tech Policy Week, which happens every year around this time, when the American policymakers, the American execs who follow them, and the U.S. journalists who report on them all go home to eat turkey wit... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: What To Do About Deplatformed Data? | Among the many problems with the current social media enthusiasm for deplatforming is this question: What do you do with all the data generated by people you deplatformed?
Facebook’s answer, as you’d expect, is that Facebook can do what it ... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Cyber Incident Reporting Bill: Good News for K Street | Two major Senate committees have reached agreement on a cyber incident reporting mandate. And it looks like the big winners are the business lobbyists who got concessions from both committees. At least that’s my take. Dmitri Alperovitch say... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: NSO on the Hot Seat | We're joined for this episode by Scott Shapiro, long-time listener and first-time panelist, not to mention our first philosopher. He breaks downthe Biden administration sanctions on four offensive cyber firms, most notably the Israeli ... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: NSO on the Hot Seat | We’re joined for this episode by Scott Shapiro, long-time listener and first-time panelist, not to mention our first philosopher. He breaks down the Biden administration sanctions on four offensive cyber firms, most notably the Israeli comp... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Raven Mad | In this episode, Dave Aitel and I dig into the new criminal law the House intelligence committee has proposed for workers at intelligence agencies. The proposal is driven by the bad decisions of three intel agency alumni who worked for the ... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The FBI Laughs Last | We begin the episode with Michael Ellis taking a close look at the takedown of the ransomware gang. It’s a good story for the good guys, as REvil seems to have been brought down by the same tactic it used against so many of its victims—malw... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: LinkedIn, Slinkedout: Microsoft and China | Fresh from his launch of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, Dmitri Alperovitch kicks off this episode with a hopeful take on the 31-nation videoconference devoted to combatting ransomware. He and Nate Jones both think a co... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Federal Government is Getting Creative in Regulating Technology | The theme of this episode is a surge of creativity in the Biden administration as it searches for ways to regulate cybersecurity and cryptocurrency without new legislative authority. Paul Rosenzweig lays out the Department of Homeland Secur... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Ransomware—Death and Diplomacy | This is the meatiest episode in a long time, as Dmitri Alperovitch, Dave Aitel, and Mark MacCarthy go deep on the substance of a dozen stories or more.
First up, Dmitri and I speculate on possible outcomes from the newly announced administr... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: AI Dystopia: Only the Elite Will Escape the Algorithm | In this episode, we welcome Nick Weaver back for a special appearance thanks to the time-shifting powers of podcast software. He does a sack dance over cryptocurrency, flagging both China’s ban on cryptocurrency transactions and the U.S. Tr... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: China, U.S. Tech Policy: 'Let Thousand Hands Throw Sand in the Gears.' | Jordan Schneider rejoins us after too long an absence to summarize the tech policy coming out of Beijing today: Any Chinese government agency with a beef against a tech company has carte blanche to at least try it out. From Didi and others ... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: What’s the Opposite of Facial Recognition? Ask Your 'Smart Toilet.' | The district court has ruled in the lawsuit between Epic and Apple over access to the Apple app store. Apple is claiming victory and Epic is appealing. But Apple’s victory is not complete, and may have a worm at its core. Jamil Jaffer expla... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: We Can’t Run a Twelfth-Century Regime Without WhatsApp! | Back at last from hiatus, the podcast finds a host of hot issues to cover. Matthew Heiman walks us through all the ways that China and the U.S. found to get in each other’s way on technology. China’s new data security and privacy laws take ... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Fighting Ransomware By Pushing All the Buttons on the Dashboard | The Biden administration’s effort to counter ransomware may not be especially creative, but it is comprehensive. The administration is pushing all the standard buttons on the interagency dashboard, including the usual high-level task force ... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Should We Add ‘Jumping U.S. Red Lines’ To The 2021 Olympics? | We begin the episode with the Biden administration’s options for responding to continued Russian ransomware outrages. Dmitri Alperovitch reprises his advice in the Washington Post that Putin will only respond to strength and U.S. pressure. ... |
| Jul 8, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: This Episode Could Be Worth $1,000 To The ACLU | We begin the episode with a review of the massive Kaseya ransomware attack.
Dave Aitel digs into the technical aspects while Paul Rosenzweig and Matthew Heiman explore the policy and political implications. But either way, the news is bad.
... |
| Jun 29, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Trustbusters Come for Big Tech | This episode offers an economical overview of the six antitrust reform bills reported out of the House Judiciary Committee last week. Michael Weiner and Mark MacCarthy give us the top line for all six (though only four would make substantia... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: President Biden’s European Cybertour | We could not avoid President Biden’s trip to Europe this week. He made news (but only a little progress) on cybersecurity at every stop. Nick Weaver and I dig into the President’s consultations with Vladimir Putin, which featured veiled thr... |
| Jun 19, 2021 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Are Stealth Quotas the Cure for AI Bias? | This week the Business Software Alliance issued a new report on AI bias. Jane Bambauer and I come to much the same conclusion: It is careful, well-written, and a policy catastrophe in the making. The main problem? It tries to turn one of th... |
