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Sharma Highlights the Debate Over Software Liability
Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently coauthored an article in Just Security, titled “Bugs in the Software Liability Debate.” “The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, released earlier this year, calls for shifting liability for insecure software, via legislation and agency action, onto software producers that fail to take ‘reasonable precautions.’” Chinmayi Sharma If you would like to read more about Chinmayi Sharma’s comments, the article can be found here.
Read MoreUT Austin Becomes Westin Scholar Institution
The Strauss Center is happy to announce that the University of Texas at Austin is a Westin Scholar school, the result of discussions between the Strauss Center, the Center for Identity, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). The IAPP has created a fund designed to support students identified by their professors as future leaders in the field of data protection and privacy. The prestigious Westin Scholar Award is granted to one student from each participating school per year to support them in their studies. The IAPP’s Westin Research…
Read MoreKlein Discusses Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Future
Critical to U.S. intelligence agencies operations is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which monitors more than 200,000 overseas targets but is set to expire at the end of 2023. Strauss Center Director Adam Klein’s recent Lawfare article outlines Section 702 in more detail, including providing recommendations for reforms to make reauthorization more likely. “Even with an all-out push, there is no guarantee that reauthorization will pass. But there are several steps that intelligence community leaders and other executive branch officials can take now to make reauthorization more…
Read MoreKlein Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, on Protecting Americans’ Personal Data from Hostile Foreign Powers on September 14. “For decades, American policy has sought to preserve the ideal of a borderless, global internet,” his statement began. “That was a noble vision, and it remains an attractive and instructive one in many ways. But the world has changed, and our policy needs to change with it. Most importantly data flows must reflect geopolitics.” The testimony concludes with several recommendations for…
Read MoreStrauss Center Director Adam Klein Publishes Essay on “The Problem with ‘Disinformation'”
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center, recently published an essay in City Journal on “The Problem with ‘Disinformation.’” “The root of the problem,” he argues, “is that ‘disinformation’ invites a focus on the message instead of the messenger… Instead of seeking to purify American public discourse of tainted information, agencies should adhere to their traditional focus on disrupting clandestine activities conducted or directed by foreign intelligence services.” To read more, see the article here.
Read MoreStrauss Center Welcomes Jordan Hirsch
The Strauss Center is pleased to welcome Jordan Hirsch as a Fellow for the Technology, Security, and Global Affairs program. Previously, he practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. There, he advised clients in matters such as high-stakes cybersecurity incidents, national security-related investigations, surveillance and law enforcement compliance and litigation, regulatory and legal challenges involving supply chain security and information and communications technologies, and challenges confronting the aerospace and defense sector. To read more about Jordan, please visit his biography here.
Read MoreChesney Quoted in WaPo Article About How the World Changed After Snowden Leaks
“It was a catalyst for a set of things that have left a permanent imprint on the role of privacy in our policy discourse, on attitudes about the extent to which people trust the U.S. government and the NSA in particular,” Bobby Chesney, Director of the Strauss Center and Dean Designate of UT’s School of Law, asserted in a Washington Post article about how the Snowden leaks altered the public’s perception of technology, privacy, and digital security. Click here to read more.
Read MoreStrauss Deputy Director Klein Discusses the Latest FISA Transparency Data
Adam Klein, the Strauss Center’s Deputy Director, appeared on the Lawfare Podcast to discuss the decline in FISA applications and other data in the intelligence community’s latest transparency report. Listen to the full interview here.
Read MoreStrauss Deputy Director Klein and Will Inboden Release Op-ed on CHIPs Act
Strauss Center Deputy Director and Director of the Technology, Security, and Global Affairs program Adam Klein and Strauss Distinguished Scholar and Clements Center Director Will Inboden released an op-ed in the Hill discussing how the CHIPs Act should be considered defense policy since semiconductors are so critical to the U.S.’s national security. Please see the op-ed here to read more.
Read MoreKlein Assesses the State of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
In a recent article published in Lawfare, the Strauss Center’s Adam Klein discusses the state of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, in light of a recent report by the Department of Justice Inspector General. FISA requires the government to obtain a court order before conducting electronic surveillance or clandestine physical searches in the United States for national-security purposes—for example, to monitor the telephone or email of a suspected foreign spy. The Inspector General found that the FBI repeatedly failed to follow procedures meant to ensure that applications submitted to the FISA Court, which…
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