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Ben and Steve are speaking on a panel at the CATO Institute entitled "Drones and the New Way of War" along with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Benjamin Friedman of CATO. The event will be moderated b...
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Mary M. Laurie, a third-year law student at Penn State Law, has rewritten the DOJ White Paper on targeted killing from the perspective the Chinese government. She explains:
China considered using a drone...
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The Daily Mail ran the following picture in this article about the raid on the home of alleged Ricin-mailer Kevin Curtis:
Notice the device the guy on his knees is holding.
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My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House's approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CIS...
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The House of Representatives has passed the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a vote of 288-127. This happened after several amendments were adopted (most notably one offered by ...
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Michael J. Glennon, of Tufts University, has an important new piece out entitled "The Dark Future of Cybersecurity Regulation." It's a realistic view, in my judgement, of the prospects of international ...
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It was a busy day on the House side in Cyber. The House Rules Committee reported out the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act for consideration on the House floor tomorrow. Meanwhile t...
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As readers of this blog know, many in the US have begun to debate the legal and policy questions surrounding private sector “hack back,” also sometimes known as “active defenses.” Of course to some of u...
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As America continues to consider legislation for improving cybersecurity, the actions of other Western nations may (or may not) be of influence and interest. I recently received a management summary of ...
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While ex-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was busy admitting on CNN that he approved at least some U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory during his time in office, the chief judge of Peshawar’s H...
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The subject of lethal autonomous weapons has been one of considerable debate on this site---following a
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John Villasenor has new law review article out taking a systematic look at drones and privacy. Entitled "Observations from Above: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Privacy" and published in the Harvard Journ...