The Cyberlaw Podcast

Stewart Baker, Maury Shenk, and Michael Vatis discuss this week in NSA: The House passes an NDAA amendment to regulate "secondary" searches of 702 data; the GCHQ defends its view that sending email thru Yahoo and Hotmail is an "external" communication; Darryl Issa raises questions about the FTC's investigation into LabMD and asks for an IG investigation; an Irish court backs the Irish data protection authority's decision not to investigate Facebook for cooperating with NSA; the Eighth Circuit decision on bank liability for weak security; the Senate Intelligence Committee's information sharing bill; and privacy class actions. In our second half we have an interview with Ralph Langner, decoder of Stuxnet and founder of the Langner Group, which specializes in industrial control system security.

Direct download: Episode_25.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:17pm EDT

Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: A federal judge in San Francisco announced that she was not willing to take the Justice Department's word that several FOIA'd FISA court opinions cannot be partially declassified and demanded that they be produced for in camera inspection; Crowdstrike outs another PLA hacker by name; the Chinese claim that the US government needs to provide more information about alleged Chinese hacking; and the DoD authorization bill is due to add a few more provisions tightening restrictions on China's IT sector; Microsoft's legal objections to getting a warrant for other people's data stored in Ireland; fourth amendment news: Wi-Fi moochers have no expectation of privacy, but how to treat location data stored by cell phone companies continues to drive the federal courts to distraction; a study that Stewart and Jim Lewis of CSIS unveiled last week on the cost of cybercrime; the West Virginia data breach doctrine; and the FCC catches up to the FTC and SEC in cybersecurity "nudge" regulation. In our second half we have an interview with Paul Rosenzweig, consultant at Red Branch Consulting, blogger for Lawfare, writer for the Homeland Security Institute, and lecturer for the Great Courses on Audible.

Direct download: Episode_24.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:31am EDT

Stewart Baker, Stephanie Roy, and Michael Vatis discuss Google's effort to implement the European Court of Justice's "right to be forgotten" decision; New York Court of Appeal's case on cyberbullying; Google's decision to promote more encryption; how stingray cell phone location systems work, and why the US marshals might seize stingray records from the Florida police; the regulatory issues that might be involved with using satellites to provide internet service to developing countries; this week in NSA: German prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the tapping of Angela Merkel's phone but not the hacking of her computer; and the EFF still wants NSA to hang on to more Americans' records than NSA wants to keep. In our second half we have an interview with Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who joined the House in 2010.

Direct download: Episode_23.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:50am EDT

Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: Edward Snowden's NBC interview and his claim to have raised concerns about the agency's intelligence programs before he launched his campaign of leaks; the New York Times' article on face recognition by the NSA; China responds to the indictment of its hackers by pointing to old Snowden documents; the FTC issues a report on data brokers; the LabMD litigation continues; Google starts to spell out how it will implement the right to be forgotten; NSL transparency is back in court; Iranian cyberattacks; and what happened with TrueCrypt. In our second half we have an interview with Ron Deibert, director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School at the University of Toronto.

Direct download: Episode_22.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:52am EDT

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