In mid-July, Microsoft won a landmark case thwarting a U.S. Department of Justice suit requesting access to a drug lord's emails stored in an Irish database. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for privacy interests, but as today's news about Apple shows, there is a seamier side to this story. U.S. tech giants' offshore operations may be less motivated by privacy … [Read more...]
Cyberattacks: The Need for Mandatory Cybersecurity
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) chief Arati Prabhakar foresees a day when automated systems will “reason” about IT vulnerabilities subject to cyberattacks, then create patches and deploy them in real time. That future can’t arrive soon enough for large enterprises, which are both victim and cause of the current cyberattack wildfire. Why hold the enterprise … [Read more...]
Surveillance and the Law: U.S. Ranks Highest on Data Privacy
New analysis of independent research published in Lawfare shows that -- contrary to media reports following the Edward Snowden leaks -- the U.S. ranks highest in the world on respecting the data privacy of citizens. Carrie Cordero, former Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, revisits research done by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) … [Read more...]