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Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a significant cybersecurity speech to Russia’s Security Council. For all you Russian speakers, the original text and video can be found on the Kremlin’...
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Joshua Bleiberg has a post on the Brookings Tech Tank blog summarizing Ryan Calo's new paper, which argues for a Federal Robotics Commission to broker the regulatory and legal issues new robotic technolo...
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Apple has encrypted its iPhone6 for real, that is, removing the backdoor for government warrants. The FBI is erupting, claiming that that this will create problems for law enforcement, raising the specte...
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Austrian drone-swarm dance with lights. Very cool.
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On Friday the government filed its response and reply brief in Klayman v.
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For quite a while it has been the case that properly implemented encryption will defeat efforts to crack it (at least using current technology). Yet it has been the case for an equally long time that ver...
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Earlier this week, the FBI announced the completion of its "next generation" facial recognition program. The system, now "fully operational" will house more than 52 million faces, which (assuming no dup...
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We are pleased to share our recently published article on law and autonomous weapons, on which we teamed up with our good friend Daniel Reisner (formerly head of the Israel Defense Forces International L...
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At the top of the hour, Ben will host a conversation at the Brookings Institution with Wells Bennett, John Villasenor, and Gregory McNeal on The Future of Civilian Robotics.
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The New York Times has an oped this morning by a philosophy professor named Firmin DeBrabander worrying that drone warfare heralds the end of democracy in America. No, I am not making that up or even exa...
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Loyal Lawfarers: next Monday, September 15th at 2:00 pm, Brookings will host an event titled "The Future of Civilian Robotics." Ben will host a conversation between Wells, John Villasenor, and Gregory Mc...
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Kevin Heller and I have been debating whether the CIA drone strike targeting Anwar al-Aulaqi violated 18 USC 1119, which makes it a felony to kill American citizens overseas (to be clear, our exchange ha...