The Cyberlaw Podcast
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Debating AI Regulation
Stewart Baker Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 9:28 AM
The latest episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast.
data broker
Data Broker Registries in Bills: the ADPPA and the DELETE Act
Justin Sherman Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 8:16 AM
Two bills from the previous Congress could make some data brokers register with the federal government. Here’s how they stack up.
ChatGPT
What ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do for Intelligence
Sam Keller, Stephen Coulthart, Michael D. Young Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 8:01 AM
ChatGPT is a preview of how AI will disrupt intelligence work by streamlining tasks and creating new skills. We tested how far the technology has progressed.
Podcasts
The Lawfare Podcast: Catching up with Jack Smith's Mar-A-Lago Investigation
Jen Patja Howell Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 5:01 AM
On May 31, CNN reported that federal prosecutors investigating the unlawful removal of classified documents from the White House to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence have obtained an audio recording in which the former president acknowledges that he knowingly kept a classified Department of Defense document that contained details about a potential attack on Iran. According to CNN, the tape indicates that Trump “understood he retained classified material after leaving the White House.”
The Week That Will Be
The Week That Will Be
Hadley Baker Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 1:39 PM
Lawfare’s weekly roundup of event announcements and employment opportunities.
Space
Not a Rose by Any Other Name: Dual-Use and Dual-Purpose Space Systems
Almudena Azcárate Ortega Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 8:16 AM
The dual nature of many space systems has been highlighted as a threat to space security. Distinguishing between dual-use and dual-purpose is key to mitigating this.
Authority to Use Nuclear Weapons
Can Congress Bar Fully Autonomous Nuclear Command and Control?
Ashley Deeks, Matthew Waxman Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 8:16 AM
Congress may want to prevent nuclear command and control from going fully autonomous. Would such a law be constitutional?
Podcasts
The Lawfare Podcast: Gabe Rottman on the Justice Department's New Guidelines on Press Subpoenas
Jen Patja Howell Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 5:01 AM
It's been about six months since the Attorney General issued new guidelines on compulsory process to members of the press in criminal and national security investigations, and two officials of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—Bruce Brown and Gabe Rottman—wrote a detailed analysis of the document in two parts for Lawfare.
Foreign Policy Essay
Palestine 1948 and Its Lessons for Displacement Today
Daniel Arnon, Richard McAlexander, Michael Rubin Sun, Jun 4, 2023, 8:53 AM
How community social cohesion shapes population displacement, one of today’s greatest global challenges.
Chatter
The Chatter Podcast: Information Ecology with Alicia Wanless
Benjamin Wittes Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 10:26 AM
Benjamin Wittes sat down with Alicia Wanless to discuss information ecology, her career, what's wrong with the discussion of disinformation, and more.
National Cybersecurity Strategy
Twenty-Five Years of White House Cyber Policies
Jason Healey Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 8:16 AM
The new National Cybersecurity Strategy builds on a long consensus but differs in important and long-overdue ways.
European Union
Can the European Union Still Be Trusted to Regulate the Internet?
Konstantinos Komaitis Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 8:16 AM
Europe is setting itself up for failure and isolation as it seeks to appease telecom providers.
Podcasts
The Lawfare Podcast: Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
Jen Patja Howell Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 5:01 AM
It is often said that “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.” Such distortions of history can lead to trouble, as the world witnessed last year when Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to “denazify” the neighboring country—one with a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust.
The Cyberlaw Podcast
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interviewing Jimmy Wales Cofounder of Wikipedia
Stewart Baker Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 4:18 PM
The latest episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast.
Donald Trump
Lawfare Live: Catching Up on the Trump Special Counsel Investigations
Katherine Pompilio Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 12:24 PM
Did Trump violate the Espionage Act? How does this change Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations? And what does all of this mean for his reelection campaign?
Podcasts
Rational Security: The 'Pun Moll' Edition
Jen Patja Howell Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 12:01 PM
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their Brookings and Lawfare colleague Molly Reynolds to talk all things Congress in the week’s national security news, including:
Cybersecurity: Legislation
Two Visions of Digital Sovereignty
Sujit Raman Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 8:16 AM
EU policymakers may soon finalize cybersecurity standards that could render the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework irrelevant.
Book Reviews
The Unintended Consequences of Economic Sanctions
Rachel Ziemba Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 8:16 AM
Two recent books add to the literature on how sanctions are reshaping the global economy and the consequences of that reshaping.
Podcasts
The Lawfare Podcast: The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War
Jen Patja Howell Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 5:01 AM
The war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment. Russia remains in control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut. But the ruthlessly effective mercenary forces of the Wagner Group—the same group whose leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, has openly bickered with the regular Russian military and reportedly offered to trade Russian troop positions to Ukrainian intelligence—are withdrawing. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, are preparing for a reported counteroffensive, even as unclaimed attacks are taking place across the border in Russia—including, most recently, on a civilian target in Moscow.
Podcasts
ChinaTalk: Flournoy on US-China and DoD Innovation
Jordan Schneider Wed, May 31, 2023, 4:50 PM
Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy under Obama, CNAS founder, and co-founder of WestExec Advisors, returns to ChinaTalk to discuss:
How the Biden Administration is trying to re-engage with China Reflections on innovation in defense, AI, and the war in UkraineClick here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app.