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The Cyberlaw Podcast is a weekly interview series and discussion on the latest events in technology, security, privacy, and government. The podcast is hosted by Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Stewart Baker, who is joined by a wide variety of guests including academics, politicians, authors, and reporters. You can subscribe to the podcast here. It is also available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Is CCPA short for 'Law of Unintended Consequences'?

Stewart Baker   Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 3:55 PM

This week’s episode includes an interview with Bruce Schneier about his recent op-ed on privacy. Bruce and I are both dubious about the current media trope that facial recognition technology was spawned by the Antichrist. He notes that what we are really worried about is a lot bigger than facial recognition and offers ways in which the law could address our deeper worry.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Line Between Deepfake Legislation and Deeply Fake Legislation

Stewart Baker   Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 2:21 PM

There’s a fine line between legislation addressing deepfakes and legislation that is itself a deep fake. Nate Jones reports on the only federal legislation addressing the problem so far. I claim that it is well short of a serious regulatory effort—and pretty close to a fake law.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Examining the DOJ Inspector General’s FBI-FISA Report

Stewart Baker   Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 10:51 AM

For this special edition of the Cyberlaw Podcast, we’ve convened a panel of experts on intelligence and surveillance legal matters. We take a look at the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s use of FISA applications – and the many errors in those applications.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Debating FISA 215 after Pensacola

Stewart Baker   Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 11:51 AM

The apparent terror attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola spurs a debate among our panelists about whether the FISA Section 215 metadata program deserves to be killed, as Congress has increasingly signaled it intends to do. If the Pensacola attack involved multiple parties acting across US borders, still a live possibility as we talked, then it would be just about the first such attacks since 9/11 – and exactly the kind of attack the metadata program was designed to identify in advance.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Ethical Algorithms with Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

Stewart Baker   Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 11:15 AM

Algorithms are at the heart of the Big Data/machine learning/AI changes that are propelling computerized decision-making. In their book, The Ethical Algorithm, Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, two Computer Science professors at Penn, flag some of the social and ethical choices these changes are forcing upon us.

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The Cyberlaw Podcast: Plumbing the Depths of Artificial Stupidity

Stewart Baker   Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 6:14 PM

The Foreign Agent Registration Act is having a moment – in fact its best year since 1939, as the Justice Department charges three people with spying on Twitter users for Saudi Arabia. Since they were clearly acting like spies but not stealing government secrets or company intellectual property, FARA seems to be the only law that they could be charged with violating.

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