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Based on trends in advancing robotics technology, many experts believe autonomous—and even lethal autonomous—robots are an inevitable and imminent development.
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When the government argues that it’s “going dark” because of ubiquitous end-to-end encryption, it often stresses how encryption thwarts counterterrorism investigations. When FBI Director Christopher Wray...
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In light of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to testify before Congress.
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Mark Zuckerberg is on a charm offensive. Fresh off a round of interviews with various media outlets following the revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data in the 2016 election, the Fa...
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The U.S.-China trade spat entered its latest phase on Tuesday afternoon as the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a list of proposed tariffs against Chinese goods.
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The shocking misuse of personal data by Cambridge Analytica, actively facilitated by Facebook, was a preventable harm. Hundreds of thousands of individuals who thought they were participating in an acade...
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On March 22, Atlanta’s city government was hit with a ransomware attack, with hackers demanding six bitcoins in exchange for releasing the data. At the time of writing this, that’s a demand for roughly $...
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Fake news is bad enough already, but something much nastier is just around the corner: As Evelyn Douek explained, the “next frontier” of fake news will feature machine-learning software that can cheaply ...
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Lawfare readers may be familiar with the San Bernardino case in which the FBI took Apple to court over the locked iPhone of the dead terrorist. I certainly am. I testified in Congress about the case in M...
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Last month, the National Academies released their report on potential solutions to the problem of law enforcement access to encrypted data. The reaction was polite but unenthusiastic.
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On March 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s version of Congress. Coming on the eve of the 2018 Russian presidential election, the speech laid ou...
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Amid the chaos of the last week, one of the most significant pieces of internet legislation of the last two decades went relatively unnoticed.