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"World on the Brink"—Interviewing Dmitri Alperovitch

Stewart Baker | 4.22.2024 10:27 AM Okay, yes, I promised to take a hiatus after episode 500. Yet here it is a week later, and I'm...

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Who's the bigger cybersecurity risk – Microsoft or open source?

Stewart Baker | 4.11.2024 12:27 PM There's a whiff of Auld Lang Syne about episode 500 of the Cyberlaw Podcast, since after this...

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Taking AI Existential Risk Seriously

Stewart Baker | 4.2.2024 9:22 AM This episode is notable not just for cyberlaw commentary, but for its imminent disappearance from...

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Social Speech and the Supreme Court

Stewart Baker | 3.26.2024 7:53 AM The Supreme Court is getting a heavy serving of first amendment social media cases. Gus Hurwitz...

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A Fourth Antitrust Shoe Drops, on Apple This Time

Stewart Baker | 3.26.2024 8:10 AM The Biden administration has been aggressively pursuing antitrust cases against Silicon Valley...

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Preventing Sales of Personal Data to Adversary Nations

Stewart Baker | 3.14.2024 2:01 PM This bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast focuses on the national security implications of...

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The National Cybersecurity Strategy – How Does it Look After a Year?

Stewart Baker | 3.12.2024 3:10 PM We open this episode by exploring the first National Cybersecurity Strategy, issued almost...

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Regulating Personal Data for National Security

Stewart Baker | 3.7.2024 5:29 PM The United States is in the process of rolling out a sweeping regulation for personal data...

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Google's Gemini Tells Us Exactly What's Wrong with Silicon Valley

Stewart Baker | 2.27.2024 12:09 PM This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast kicks off with the Babylon Bee's take on Google Gemini's...

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Are AI Models Learning to Generalize?

Stewart Baker | 2.21.2024 6:31 PM We begin this episode with Paul Rosenzweig describing major progress in teaching AI models to do...

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Death, taxes, and data regulation

Stewart Baker | 2.13.2024 2:51 PM The latest episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast features guest host Brian Fleming, while Stewart...

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Serious threats, unserious responses

Stewart Baker | 2.6.2024 11:29 AM It was a week of serious cybersecurity incidents and unimpressive responses. As Melanie...

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Going deep on deep fakes

Stewart Baker | 1.30.2024 12:50 PM This was a big week for AI-generated deep fakes. Sultan Meghji, who's got a new AI startup of...

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The FTC and national security

Stewart Baker | 1.29.2024 4:33 PM Okay, maybe past Cybertoonz have been a little hard on the FTC in past issues, hinting that it...

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High Court, High Stakes for Cybersecurity

Stewart Baker | 1.23.2024 10:20 AM The Supreme Court heard argument last week in two cases seeking to overturn the Chevron...

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The FTC defines sensitive locations for data brokers

Stewart Baker | 1.22.2024 8:41 PM The FTC has begun a new campaign against data brokers who are collecting and selling "sensitive" location...

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Cyberwar continues to underperform

Stewart Baker | 1.17.2024 10:38 AM Matthew Heiman kicks off this episode of the podcast with a breakdown of Russia's attack on...

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Hacking the SEC

Stewart Baker | 1.13.2024 11:49 AM

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Triangulating Apple

Stewart Baker | 1.9.2024 11:15 AM Returning from winter break, this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast covers a lot of ground. The...

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The EU AI Act

Stewart Baker | 1.9.2024 8:41 AM As covered in this week's Cyberlaw Podcast, the AI Act is getting some poor reviews—from the US...

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Secure the border and stop the cartels with FISA

Immigration officers have the nearly impossible job of keeping terrorists , foreign spies, and others who threaten our national security from entering...

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Adventures in AI alignment 

Stewart Baker | 12.12.2023 11:35 AM This is 2023's last and probably longest episode. To lead off, Megan Stifel takes us through a...

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Making the rubble bounce in Montana

Stewart Baker | 12.5.2023 12:01 PM In this episode, Paul Stephan lays out the reasoning behind U.S. District Judge Donald W....

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Rohrschach AI

Stewart Baker | 11.28.2023 11:01 AM The OpenAI corporate drama came to a sudden end last week. So sudden, in fact, that the...

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Defenestration at OpenAI

Stewart Baker | 11.21.2023 1:33 PM In this episode, Paul Rosenzweig brings us up to date on the debate over renewing section 702,...

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The Brussels Defect: Too early turns out to be worse than too late.

Stewart Baker | 11.14.2023 10:47 AM It's a commonplace among Silicon Valley VCs that introducing a new product too early is worse...

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Cybertoonz explains the FTC's latest filing on copyright and AI

Stewart Baker | 11.14.2023 8:45 AM What the FTC said: "Conduct that may violate the copyright laws––such as training an AI...

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You can't spell INFOSEC without the SEC

Stewart Baker | 11.7.2023 12:04 PM In a law-packed Cyberlaw Podcast episode, Chris Conte walks us through the long, detailed, and...

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The new AI executive order

Stewart Baker | 10.31.2023 10:23 AM In this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I take advantage of Scott Shapiro's participation to...

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Administration fails forward on China chip exports

Stewart Baker | 10.24.2023 11:29 AM This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast begins with the administration's aggressive new rules on...

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Cybertoonz Visits Murthy v. Missouri

Stewart Baker | 10.22.2023 8:13 PM The effort by Missouri to enjoin the Biden administration's "jawboning" of social media...

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Will CISOs have to choose between getting rich or going to jail?

Stewart Baker | 10.18.2023 10:46 AM This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast delves into a False Claims Act lawsuit against Penn State...

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The PCLOB Report on 702—We Interview Both Sides

Stewart Baker | 10.16.2023 10:54 AM The debate over section 702 of FISA is heating up as the end-of-year deadline for...

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Technology and Terror

Stewart Baker | 10.10.2023 11:34 AM Today's episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast begins, as it must, with Saturday's appalling Hamas...

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Images that Bing Image Creator won't create

Stewart Baker | 10.8.2023 11:56 AM Like all the big AI companies, Bing's Image Creator software has a content policy that...

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Cybertoonz explains Netchoice v. Paxton

Stewart Baker | 10.7.2023 7:16 PM One of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year will be a Big Tech challenge to Texas and...

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Is silencing a few million Americans a form of protected speech?

Stewart Baker | 10.3.2023 10:52 AM The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review two big state laws trying to impose limits...

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The President's Civil Liberties Oversight Board's report on section 702 of FISA

Stewart Baker | 10.3.2023 8:17 AM I summarize the President's Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) report on section 702 of...

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The UK adopts an Online Safety Bill that allows regulation of encrypted messaging

Stewart Baker | 9.26.2023 12:37 PM Our headline story for this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is the UK's sweeping new Online...

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Cybertoonz explains the government's right to speak

Stewart Baker | 9.25.2023 8:29 AM There's already a tangled legal history to the Biden administration's aggressive campaign aimed...

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Conservative catfight over section 702 of FISA

Stewart Baker | 9.20.2023 4:27 PM The fight over renewing section 702 of FISA has highlighted a split among conservatives. Former...

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Is the government's antitrust case against Google already in trouble?

Stewart Baker | 9.19.2023 3:02 PM That's the question I have after the latest episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast. Jeffery Atik lays...

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Generative AI means lifetime employment for cybersecurity professionals

Stewart Baker | 9.12.2023 12:53 PM All the handwringing over AI replacing white collar jobs came to an end this week for...

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