Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently published an article through Lawfare entitled “Who’s Afraid of Products Liability? Cybersecurity and the Defect Model,” about how the Biden administration is looking into establishing a federal tort liability framework for software manufacturers to address cybersecurity concerns.

The article argues that “products liability” is a better foundation than “negligence” for a federal tort liability framework for software cybersecurity, emphasizing its advantages in incentivizing better security practices, addressing complex legal issues, and bridging the knowledge gap between industry and the court.

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