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.

In our twentieth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Stephanie Roy, and Michael Vatis discuss Breaking News: American counterattack on Chinese cyberspying - the indictment of several PLA members for breaking into US computers to steal commercial information; this week in NSA: It turns out that telcos did challenge the 215 program; Glenn Greenwald's book claims that NSA considers Israel the most effective at spying on the US after China and Russia; Greenwald also says that NSA modifies equipment after it's been sold to make hacking easier; and Greenwald's book has now been leaked to Bittorrent; it looks as though LabMD is down to one lawsuit; the Justice Department released a statement that some kinds of information sharing don't violate the antitrust laws. Now it's put out a white paper saying that ISPs can release aggregate information about cybersecurity without violating the Stored Communications Act's prohibition on releasing customer information; net neutrality and the difference between Title II and section 706 as a basis for net neutrality; and the European Court of Justice's embrace of the "right to be forgotten" In our second half, we have an interview with Shane Harris, senior writer at Foreign Policy magazine, where he covers national security, intelligence, and cyber security. Shane's book, The Watchers, offered thoughtful insights into the rise of surveillance in America.

Stewart Baker and Michael Vatis discuss this week in NSA: Al-Jazeera gets an exclusive on e-mails where google execs turn down NSA invitations and talk briefly about online security threats; the State Department's Coordinator for Cyber Issues; Oracle wins a Federal Circuit victory over Google, establishing that APIs can be copyrighted; New York State issues a short report on bank cybersecurity practices and promises to start asking banks about these practices in inspections; in other litigation, LabMD claims a victory over the FTC, and we interview LabMD's CEO, Michael Daugherty; the ACLU argues that criminal defendants who are acquitted should have no more privacy rights than those who are convicted; Zynga and Facebook get a reprieve from the Court of Appeals, but can face lawsuits under state law for breach of contract; and Snapchat finds itself exposed at the FTC. In our second half, we have an interview with Chris Painter, the State Department's Coordinator for Cyber Issues. Chris discusses norms in cyberconflict, MLAT reform, Brazil's recent Net Mundial conference, and much more.

In our eighteenth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker and Michael Vatis discuss this week in NSA: The internal NSA briefing memo surmising that GCHQ probably hoped to expand its access to PRISM data; Microsoft loses a big case before a magistrate in SDNY, who rules that the government can enforce warrants requiring Microsoft to produce data stored abroad; The Supreme Court hears oral argument over cell phone searches incident to arrest; The White House has released a couple of reports on Big Data—one from the PCAST and one from John Podesta's group—along with several recommendations; The White House also released guidance on when NSA will exploit cybersecurity flaws and when it will try to fix them; GCHQ's own independent monitor has released a long and favorable report; and data breaches claim their first CEO, as Target makes room at the top. In our second half, we have an interview with Brian Krebs, the noted security researcher behind Krebs on Security. Brian comments on the week's news before giving us an interview on the latest in Russian cybercrime.

In our seventeenth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Stephen Heifetz, Stephanie Roy, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: No new scandal stories but the principal new release came from the US government and consisted of a FISA court ruling that took apart the only decision declaring NSA's section 215 metadata program illegal - Judge Leon's opinion in Klayman; the top story this week is the claim that the FCC is gutting net neutrality; the New York Times' story suggesting that the FBI may have used Anonymous to help compromise foreign nations' networks; the cell phone warrant case; the Aereo case; Magistrate Facciola's approach to warrants, and DOJ's method to appeal his latest ruling; and DHS' announcement that it has notified all critical infrastructure companies that they are considered critical. In our second half, we have an interview with two government CFIUS experts, Elana Broitman, a deputy assistant secretary at DOD and Shawn Cooley, who manages DHS's participation in CFIUS as well as Team Telecom.

In our sixteenth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Chris Conte, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: Edward Snowden questions Putin; and the Bloomberg story that NSA exploited the Heartbleed vulnerability steadily loses altitude and believers; the SEC releases thoughtful and detailed set of cybersecurity questions for its examiners to use in dealing with the private sector; US magistrate Facciola calls for an amicus brief on cell-site data; Kentucky adopts a state breach notice law; the conviction of Andew "Weev" Auernheimer for the AT&T hack was overturned on appeal; the implications of giving first amendment protection to censored search results; and in bitcoin news, a more plausible candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto has emerged. In our second half, we have an interview with Alex Joel, the Civil Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Stewart Baker, Maury Shenk, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: The FBI and ACLU tangle over FOIA; Larry Klayman loses an appeal over Section 215 metadata collection; according to a Bloomberg article the NSA exploited the Heartbleed security flaw for years - the NSA conclusively denied the story immediately; this week in FTC: the District Court ruling in the Wyndham case was largely unsurprising; Whatsapp and Facebook are being locked into their current privacy policies; the commission fairly charges jerk.com with deceptive practices and orders them to delete data; the European Court of Justice makes news, striking down parts of the data retention directive that have long distinguished Europe as a far less privacy-protective jurisdiction than the United States; continuing the tutorial in class action tactics, the Target litigation is consolidated in Minnesota; the Justice Department and the FTC issue antitrust guidance designed to ease the fears of companies that sharing cybersecurity information will create antitrust liability; and international cyberdiplomacy is slowly recovering from the Snowden leaks. The US makes a creative response to Iran's DOS attacks on banks, and it tries candor on China. In our second half, we have an interview with Dan Sutherland, Associate General Counsel, National Protection and Programs Directorate at the US Department of Homeland Security.

Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: Proposal to replace NSA's 215 metadata program with one where the data remains with the telephone companies; the new chief judge at the FISA court; and China has promised to bolster its cybersecurity while protesting news that Huawei was hacked by NSA, this week in Target: Banks suing not just Target but also its security assessor, Microsoft admits to opening a subscriber's Hotmail account to track an employee who was leaking its business secrets, Bitcoin assets to be subject to capital gains calculations. In our second half, we have an interview with Michael Allen, former Majority Staff Director of the House Intelligence Committee and Founder & Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies.

In our twelfth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Jason Weinstein discuss this week in NSA: The President meets tech execs again on privacy and NSA; a decision/announcement on 215 changes seems imminent; Silliest Press Angle of the week: the press is shocked to hear government lawyers say that tech companies knew of PRISM intercepts; NSA "reaches into the past"; IBM denies helping NSA; NSA hacks Huawei; Brazil drops localization requirement, IL two-party consent law struck down, Gmail intercept class denied, settlement for victims who didn't suffer harm, Android user privacy/battery case advances, and additional stories: Ninth Circuit "Innocence of Muslims" ruling undermined by Copyright Office but enbanc denied; SSCI-CIA forensic review ordered. In our second half, we have an interview with Jim Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.