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Susan Landau
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Finally Some Clear Thinking on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Investigation and Intervention
President Biden recently told Big Tech he’s coming after them. Whether the administration will succeed is questionable—the Frightful Five have a strong lobbying presence in…
Putting the Tech into Cybersecurity Policy: A Workshop for Social Science and Legal Scholars
June 19-22, 2023 This 4-day workshop is for social scientists and legal scholars working on cybersecurity policy. Its intent is to provide an introduction to…
The EU’s Proposal on CSAM Is a Dangerous Misfire
In his recent post, Robert Gorwa lays out how the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, an odd part of the European Commission, came to…
How the U.K. and the Senate Judiciary Committee Are Being Dangerously Foolish About Cryptography
The story would be really funny—David Frost-biting-humor funny—if it weren’t true. Rolling Stone reported last month that the U.K. government hired M&C Saatchi Group, a…
Bugs in Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
For more than two decades, U.S. law enforcement has fought against the use of strong cryptography by the public in telecommunications. In 1992, the FBI…
Dangers Posed by Evidentiary Software—and What to Do about It
It’s well known the code is buggy; that’s why software updates for anything from apps to operating systems are now the norm. But if the…