Intersections

If NATO Cannot Protect Everyone, It Cannot Defend Anyone

(Diana Morais, Samantha Turner and Katharine A.M. Wright - RUSI) This International Women’s Day falls during a moment of profound geopolitical challenge. The US...

Beyond Carpenter – A Legislative Framework for Mobile Location Privacy

(Jim Dempsey - Lawfare) In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for compelled disclosure of...

Installing a Content Patch in the Stored Communications Act

(Stephanie Pell, Richard Salgado - Lawfare) The 1980s-era scheme in the Stored Communications Act that allows the government to compel service providers to disclose...

Data Proxies for the Stored Communications Act

(David Kris - Lawfare) When law enforcement obtains a customer’s cloud data from a cloud service provider (CSP) under the Stored Communications Act, a...

Harmonizing ECPA to Close Gaps and Increase Statutory Coherence

(Aaron R. Cooper - Lawfare) The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) was designed to protect the privacy of electronic communications while providing...

Unpacking and Updating the CLOUD Act

(Jennifer Daskal - Lawfare) The CLOUD Act, enacted in 2018, is the most significant amendment to ECPA in over a decade. It clarified that...

Limiting Reverse Searches in the Stored Communications Act

(Paul Ohm - Lawfare) Law enforcement increasingly conducts “reverse searches”—requests that ask online providers to search their massive databases not for information about a...

The International Community at a Crossroads Over Iran: The reawakening of “illegal but legitimate” or the “law of self-preservation”?

(Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen - Just Security) A momentous gap has emerged between the broad consensus among international lawyers regarding the illegality of...

Oil Vs. Renewables: Competing Visions Of Global Power

(Ronald Fink - Global Finance) Aside from regime change, a central goal of President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela and against Iran has...

Latest articles