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Coincidentally, they come to us from two different federal judges in the District of Oregon.
The first decision concludes that remedial mechanisms associated with the so-called "No Fly" list violate due...
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On May 27, a unanimous Supreme Court---to little notice from just about anyone---handed down a case called Plumhoff v. Rickard, which dealt with a police shooting and a claim of excessive force during a ...
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I have this feeling that a lot of people are going to mischaracterize the just-released OLC memo on the Anwar Al-Aulaqi strike. Just a guess. So before expressing any opinions on the subject or arguing w...
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The Second Circuit has just released a redacted version of the OLC Drone Memo--here is the memo; here is the panel's full, revised April 21, 2014 decision with the memo appended at page 67.
You'll recal...
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Cyber Attack on Hong Kong Among Largest Ever. "The online voting platform for the unofficial referendum now underway on Hong Kong’s political future has been subjected to one of the most severe cyberatt...
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I yield to nobody in my capacity to be surprised by Congress, but sometimes even I get a bit of a shock. I totally get the idea that everyone is angry at the NSA. And, indeed, I've spoken publicly abou...
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The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senators Feinstein and Chambliss have introduced a draft cybersecurity information sharing bill. Early coverage of the bill from ...
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A few items that caught my eye:
FCC unveils new regulatory paradigm -- "In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has quietly worked to expand its role among federal agencies charged with ...
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Political science graduate students Andrea Gilli (European Union Institute, Florence) and Mauro Gilli (Northwestern University, Evanston) have posted a new and provocative paper to SSRN--"The Diffusion o...
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I participated today in a CSIS/McAfee roll-out of their latest report on the economic impact of cybercrime. Their bottom line is that cybercrime has an annual effect of roughly $455 billion globally, wi...
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A few weeks ago, Ben posted some comments about a Der Spiegel article that suggested the tensions between the United States and Germany were likely to die down. Not so fast, it appears. Germany’s top pro...
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The topic of net neutrality (i.e.