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It didn’t take long after Trump’s unexpected election as the 45th president of the United States for the encryption debate to reemerge.
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For some time I have argued that encryption is a security versus security issue. Given our reliance on cyber, that is, our increasing intertwining of the physical world with network controls, I continue ...
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has released a new version of its white paper on "Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety." The report updates the Office's November 2015 white paper on encryptio...
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As I prepared this week to address the more than 3,000 customers, stakeholders and other interested parties at our annual FOCUS conference—Intel Security’s annual cybersecurity conference—I thought a lot...
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As the United Kingdom approaches the early 2017 start of negotiations on its departure from the European Union, questions are emerging about the future direction of the country’s EU-based data privacy la...
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Below is a copy to the Department of Justice's Responses to Frequently Asked Questions on Use of National Security Letters to Obtain Electronic Communication Transaction Records, which should be of inter...
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In early 2015, the Federal Communications Commission reclassified broadband internet as a telecommunications service, a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, and approved long-deba...
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As part of a series on "Election 2016 and American's Future," I recently released a Brookings policy brief on a strategic approach to “Going Dark” for the next administration. Recognizing the current dea...
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In the extraordinary transparency that followed Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations, one tantalizing mystery remained: how did the NSA persist until early 2009 in querying metadata under the now-replaced s...
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Benjamin Wittes flags that much of the Yahoo story is unclear, including legal arguments and the objective of the search, and further reporting from Motherboard and the Intercept further confuses the pos...
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In a paper released today at a Brookings panel discussion, I reflect on my experience in the Obama administration and draw lessons about policymaking on issues for that space.
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In 2009, the government notified the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) of a serious issue in the design and description of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Business Records metadata prog...