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A French Perspective on the Trump Administration’s New Plan for Cyber Operations

From France's perspective, letting private actors conduct hack-back operations is unacceptable domestically and should not be allowed by the international community.
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Germany’s Proposed Hack-Back Powers and Outsourced Surveillance Are Testing Constitutional Limits

Germany's proposed cyber and surveillance reforms risk enabling intelligence services to watch — and act — in secret.
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Series: Comparing National Trends in Cyber and Surveillance Expansion

Introducing a series on the expansion of cyber and surveillance powers convened by the Atlantic Council in partnership with Just Security.
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Collection: Just Security 2026 Midterm Election Analysis and Commentary

This collection brings together analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding the 2026 U.S. midterm elections published on Just Security.

Data Centers as Military Objectives: The Russian and Ukrainian Justifications

Experts examine four major international legal questions raised by Russian and Ukrainian attacks on data centers.
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Data Centers at War: The Defender’s Duty to Protect Civilians

Peacetime decisions about the location and protection of data centers may determine the risks civilians face when armed conflict erupts.
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Can the Law Stop AI Hackers?

Hacking law assumes a human intended the break-in. AI agents are testing that assumption, and Congress may need to act.
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When Intelligence Becomes a Strategic Asset: Frontier AI, Sandbox Breakouts, and the Case for Independent Oversight

Advanced AI systems have crossed an important threshold from commercial software to technologies viewed as strategic national assets.
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Taiwan Should Set the Standard for Industrial AI Security

Taipei should extend its new semiconductor equipment certification system to test industrial AI agents, constrain their permissions, and monitor them after deployment.
President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his last daily morning briefing at Palacio Nacional on September 30, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico.

Persecution by Other Means: Mexico and the First Test of the ICC’s Cyber Policy

A new report finds that the Mexican government's actions against journalists from 2018 to 2024 could constitute grounds to investigate the crime of persecution.
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AI-Cyber Operations: A New Frontier for Public-Private Partnerships

For the United States to take the lead in AI cyber operations capabilities, government and industry must create appropriate safeguards.
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Test, Standardize, Restrict: A U.S. Policy for Chinese AI Models

Neither banning Chinese advanced AI models nor ignoring their risks to national security will serve American interests.
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