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America’s Muddled Approach to Fighting ISIS

Last month, the Los Angeles Times ran a story that helped highlight one facet of the muddled thinking afflicting the US government’s campaign against ISIS: While the military…
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“Ideating” on ISIS and Silicon Valley

In a lot of Silicon Valley meetings, participants “iterate,” “ideate,” and “sync,” and do other buzzwordy things. Every once in a while something innovative and impactful…
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Social Media Companies Should Decline the Government’s Invitation to Join the National Security State

The pressure on social media companies to limit or take down content in the name of national security has never been greater. Resolving any ambiguity about the how much the Obama…
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“Your Account May Have Been Targeted by State-Sponsored Actors”: Attribution and Evidence of State-Sponsored Cyberattacks

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…
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The Wiretap Spike at Facebook: WhatsApp With That?

Vice’s Motherboard is puzzling over a massive leap in the number of Title III wiretap orders served on Facebook during the first half of 2015: A whopping 201 (targeting 259 users)…
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Reminder: Tech Firms Aren’t Always the Privacy Advocates We’d Like to Think They Are

Last weekend, news broke that Facebook had been informally lobbying lawmakers to let them know the company didn’t oppose the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The…
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ISIL’s Online Offensive: Challenges in Countering ISIL in Cyberspace

The US-led campaign against ISIL is going well in neither the terrestrial nor cyber realms. ISIL’s successful offensives against Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria in late May…
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Twitter’s First Amendment Suit & the Warrant-Canary Question

This week, Twitter lobbed the latest volley in what has been both a fascinating and encouraging repositioning of technology companies vis-à-vis the U.S. government—a pivot that…
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New Editors’ Picks Reading List: IHRL on Privacy and Surveillance

As regular readers will likely recall, in recent weeks there has been much discussion here on the pages of Just Security (and elsewhere) on important questions regarding the extraterritorial…
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Table of Contents: Mini Forum on President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies [Updated]

Just Security has been holding a “mini forum” on the Report of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. The following list contains…
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