The Cyberlaw Podcast

Stewart Baker

The Cyberlaw Podcast is a weekly interview series and discussion offering an opinionated roundup of the latest events in technology, security, privacy, and government. It features in-depth interviews of a wide variety of guests, including academics, politicians, authors, reporters, and other technology and policy newsmakers. Hosted by cybersecurity attorney Stewart Baker, whose views expressed are his own.

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Google’s Spamgate

Retraction: An earlier episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast may have left the impression that I think Google hates mothers. I regret the error. It appears that, in reality, Google only hates Republican mothers who are running for office. But to all appearances, Google really, really hates them. A remarkable, and apparently damning study disclosed that during the most recent federal election campaign, Google’s Gmail sent roughly two-thirds of GOP campaign emails to users’ spam inboxes while downgradin...

May 05, 2022•1 hr

Confirmation Bias Meets Ukraine War and Elon Musk

Whatever else the pundits are saying about the use of cyberattacks in the Ukraine war, Dave Aitel notes, they all believe it confirms their past predictions about cyberwar. Not much has been surprising about the cyber weapons the parties have deployed, Scott Shapiro agrees. The Ukrainians have been doxxing Russia’s soldiers in Bucha and its spies around the world. The Russians have been attacking Ukraine’s grid. What’s surprising is that the grid attacks have not seriously degraded civilian life...

Apr 19, 2022•49 min

Rupert Murdochizing The Internet

The theme of this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is, “Be careful what you wish for.“ Techlash regulation is burgeoning around the world. Mark MacCarthy takes us through a week’s worth of regulatory enthusiasm. Canada is planning to force Google and Facebook to pay Canadian news media for links. It sounds simple, but arriving at the right price—and the right recipients—will require a hefty dose of discretionary government intervention. Meanwhile, South Korea’s effort to regulate Google’s Android...

Apr 12, 2022•47 min

All At Sea: Maritime Cybersecurity

Spurred by a Cyberspace Solarium op-ed , Nate Jones gives an overview of cybersecurity worries in the maritime sector, where there is plenty to worry about. I critique the U.S. government’s December 2020 National Maritime Cybersecurity Strategy , a 36-page tome that, when the intro and summary and appendices and blank pages are subtracted, offers only eight pages of substance. Luckily, the Atlantic Council has filled the void with its own report on the topic . Of course, the maritime sector isn’...

Apr 05, 2022•43 min

Transatlantic Privacy Threepeat

With the U.S. and Europe united in opposing Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a few tough transatlantic disputes are being swept away—or at least under the rug. Most prominently, the data protection crisis touched off by Schrems 2 has been resolved in principle by a new framework agreement between the U.S. and the EU. Michael Ellis and Paul Rosenzweig trade insights on the deal and its prospects before the European Court of Justice. The most controversial aspect of the agreement is the lack of any cha...

Mar 29, 2022•58 min

A Cavalcade of Paranoia

A special reminder that we will be doing episode 400 live on video and with audience participation on March 28, 2022 at noon Eastern daylight time. So, mark your calendar and when the time comes, use this link to join the audience: https://riverside.fm/studio/the-cyberlaw-podcast-400 See you there! There’s nothing like a serious shooting war to bring on paranoia and mistrust, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is generating mistrust on all sides. Everyone expected a much more damaging cyberatta...

Mar 23, 2022•51 min

Scarlett Johannsson Appears on the Cyberlaw Podcast

A special reminder that we will be doing episode 400 live on video and with audience participation on March 28, 2022 at noon Eastern daylight time. So mark your calendar and when the time comes, use this link to join the audience: https://riverside.fm/studio/the-cyberlaw-podcast-400 See you there! For the third week in a row, we lead with cyber and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Paul Rosenzweig comments on the most surprising thing about social media’s decoupling from Russia—how enthusiastically ...

Mar 17, 2022•59 min

A Digital Curtain Descends Across Europe

Much of this episode is devoted to new digital curtain falling across Europe. Gus Horwitz and Mark-MacCarthy review the tech boycott that has seen companies like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Adobe pull their service from Russia. Nick Weaver describes how Russia cracked down on independent Russian media outlets and blocked access to the websites of foreign media including the BBC and Facebook. Gus reports on an apparent Russian decision to require all servers and domains to transfer Russian zone...

Mar 08, 2022•44 min

Waging War in a Networked Age

Much of this episode is devoted to how modern networks and media are influencing what has become a major shooting war between Russia and Ukraine. Dmitri Alperovitch gives a sweeping overview. Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, clearly won the initial stages of the war in cyberspace, turning broad Western sympathy into a deeper commitment with short videos from downtown Kyiv at a time when Zelenskyy was expected to be racing for the border. The narrative of determined Ukrainian resis...

Mar 01, 2022•46 min

Cyberwar For Real This Time?

Troops and sanctions and accusations are coming thick and fast in Ukraine as we record the podcast. Michael Ellis draws on his past experience at the National Security Council (NSC) to guess how things are going at the White House, and we both speculate on whether the conflict will turn into a cyberwar that draws the United States in. Neither of us thinks so, though for different reasons. Meanwhile, Nick Weaver reports, the Justice Department is gearing up for a fight with cryptocurrency crimina...

Feb 23, 2022•39 min

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