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Summary of DOJ Indictment of Iranian 2024 Election Interference

Editor’s note: Readers may also be interested in David Aaron’s analysis of the indictment. On Friday, the Department of Justice announced charges in another state-sponsored…

Analysis of Remarkable and Unremarkable Aspects of Iranian 2024 Election Interference Indictment 

What's novel and what's routine in the indictment of the three alleged Iranian government operatives.
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Rethinking the United Nations Cybercrime Treaty

The U.N. Convention Against Cybercrime clearly challenges the democratic vision for a free Internet and puts the United States on the spot.
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The UN Cybercrime Convention: Analyzing the Risks to Human Rights and Global Privacy

A detailed analysis of the human rights and digital privacy implications of the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime.
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Our Lives Depend on the Cloud. Now What?

The CrowdStrike outage should be viewed not as a one-off mistake but as a harbinger of things to come.
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Austria’s Progressive Stance on Cyber Operations and International Law

Austria's position is likely to influence ongoing international efforts to establish norms and principles that govern State conduct in cyberspace, potentially leading to more robust…
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The Draft UN Cybercrime Treaty Is Overbroad and Falls Short On Human Rights Protection

If adopted, the draft treaty would allow States to undermine human rights protection and security of digital communications.

Encryption Helps Ukrainians Resist Russia’s Invasion, but a European Plan Threatens the Underlying Trust Any Tech User Needs

The intended crime-fighting proposals could force encrypted-messaging services to abandon basic confidentiality or pull out of the market.
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The UN Cybercrime Treaty Has a Cybersecurity Problem In It

Proposals for an international cyber crime treaty could have unintended consequences that undermine the very purpose for its existence.
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Sobre el nuevo protocolo sobre vigilancia transfronteriza en materia de cibercrimen, un llamado a la cautela

En vez de "un enfoque proporcionado ... da prioridad a la aplicación de la ley en detrimento de la privacidad, la protección de datos y los derechos humanos."
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On New Cross-Border Cybercrime Policing Protocol, a Call for Caution

The treaty creates a range of new policing powers with weak privacy and human rights standards and fails to include sufficient oversight.
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