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An EU PNR System -- Oh, the Irony ...
For more than a decade the US and the European Union have been arguing about a Passanger Name Record system. PNR is the data and information collected by airlines when they sell you a ticket. It includ... -
Beyond Privacy & Security: The Role of the Telecommunications Industry in Electronic Surveillance
The court fight between Apple and FBI over access to a terrorist iPhone is just the latest chapter in the long-running tension between security professionals trying to get access to information and commu... -
Senators Kelly Ayotte and Mark Kirk Introduce Bills to Halt GTMO Transfers
Hot on the heels of another transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees—this time to Senagal—and amid news that nine more detainees are likely to be transferred in the next two weeks, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH... -
Two More Detainees Depart GTMO
The New York Times' Charlie Savage reports that the United States military transferred two Libyan detainees to Senegal on Monday. The two men, Omar Khalifa Mohammed Abu Bakr and Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby... -
This Week's 9/11 Military Commissions Hearings Cancelled
Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the 9/11 military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay, abruptly canceled this week's hearings on Friday, April 1st. (Insert obligatory no April Foo... -
In the 21st Century, Borders Aren’t Walls
Election-year immigration talk has turned, as it often does, to focus on a wall across our southern border as a centerpiece to security and foreign policy. And the recent attacks in Brussels, San Bernard... -
HFAC Hearing on the Administration's Plan to Close Guantanamo
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing testimony this morning on the Administration's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure... -
Making NPPD Operational -- Converging Cyber and Physical
Form should follow function. As we noted late last year, in the context of infrastructure protection this means that the organzation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) of DHS sho... -
China and Cybertheft: Did Action Follow Words?
I was very skeptical about last September’s US-China “agreement” in which China pledged that it would not “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secre... -
Thinking of Travelling to Europe This Summer?
If you are planning to travel to Europe this summer .... your trip may be harder than you thought. You have the US Congress to thank. -
Sanctioning the Dragon: Using Statecraft to Shape Chinese Behavior
Editor's Note: Sanctions on China are again in the air as policymakers look on Beijing's provocative regional policies with dismay. Although many experts argue that sanctions would achieve little and mig... -
ACLU Takes First Step Towards Prepublication Review Reform
In December, Oona Hathaway and I wrote an op-ed and series of posts on the broken pre-publication review process.
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