Quad meeting, Panama problems, undersea cable damage, spying in Taiwan, South China Sea confrontations, and more.

As details about migrant detention at Guantanamo Bay trickle in, the Defense Department’s role in immigration enforcement appears to be at an inflection point.

The institutional challenges to pushback from the judiciary.

Proper use of AI can transform and improve the federal government. Improper use violates the Privacy Act.

It’s a fundamental principle inculcated into CIA officers from day one: individual pieces of information can be combined to provide a picture that discloses sensitive intelligence.

Presidential immunity was not the most important part of the case.

Senator Hawley’s new bill seeks to cut U.S. AI ties with China but risks stifling innovation and hurting U.S. technical dominance instead.

Cybercrime is on the rise. International hubs will solve the problem.

A Feb. 5 hearing—part of a suit that alleges unlawful access to Treasury systems by DOGE associates—raised more questions than answers. 

Your weekly summary of everything on the site. 

A 200-year-old sonnet and our political reality.

An EU law enabling class-action-type lawsuits and a ruling making damages easier to obtain may increase litigation of U.S. data transfers.

Musk’s attempts to gain access to agency databases is an egregious violation of the act, which protects personal information from abuse. 

The international community needs a new model for maintaining peace and security in cyberspace.

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