The Cyberlaw Podcast

The Digital Fourth Amendment with Orin Kerr

The Cyberlaw Podcast is back from hiatus – briefly!  I've used the hiatus well, skiing the Canadian Ski Marathon, trekking through Patagonia, and having a heart valve rep

World on the Brink with Dmitri Alperovitch

Okay, yes, I promised to take a hiatus after episode 500. Yet here it is a week later, and I'm releasing episode 501. Here's my excuse. I read and liked Dmitri Alperovitc

Who's the Bigger Cybersecurity Risk – Microsoft or Open Source?

There's a whiff of Auld Lang Syne about episode 500 of the Cyberlaw Podcast, since after this it will be going on hiatus for some time and maybe forever. (Okay, there wil

Taking AI Existential Risk Seriously

This episode is notable not just for cyberlaw commentary, but for its imminent disappearance from these pages and from podcast playlists everywhere.  Having promised to t

The Fourth Antitrust Shoe Drops, on Apple This Time

The Biden administration has been aggressively pursuing antitrust cases against Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. This week it was Apple's turn. Th

Social Speech and the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is getting a heavy serving of first amendment social media cases. Gus Hurwitz covers two that made the news last week. In the first, Justice Barrett spo

Preventing Sales of Personal Data to Adversary Nations

This bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast focuses on the national security implications of sensitive personal information. Sales of personal data have been largely unreg

The National Cybersecurity Strategy – How Does it Look After a Year?

Kemba Walden and Stewart revisit the National Cybersecurity Strategy a year later. Sultan Meghji examines the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare and its consequences.

Regulating personal data for national security

The United States is in the process of rolling out a sweeping regulation for personal data transfers. But the rulemaking is getting limited attention because it targets t

Are AI models learning to generalize?

We begin this episode with Paul Rosenzweig describing major progress in teaching AI models to do text-to-speech conversions. Amazon flagged its new model as having "emerg

Death, Taxes, and Data Regulation

On the latest episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, guest host Brian Fleming, along with panelists Jane Bambauer, Gus Hurwitz, and Nate Jones, discuss the latest U.S. governme

Serious threats, unserious responses

It was a week of serious cybersecurity incidents paired with unimpressive responses. As Melanie Teplinsky reminds us, the U.S. government has been agitated for months abo

Going Deep on Deep Fakes—Plus a Bonus Interview with Rob Silvers on the Cyber Safety Review Board.

It was a big week for deep fakes generated by artificial intelligence. Sultan Meghji, who's got a new AI startup, walked us through three stories that illustrate the ways

High Court, High Stakes for Cybersecurity

The Supreme Court heard argument last week in two cases seeking to overturn the Chevron doctrine that defers to administrative agencies in interpreting the statutes that

Triangulating Apple

Returning from winter break, this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast covers a lot of ground. The story I think we'll hear the most about in 2024 is the remarkable exploit us

Do AI Trust and Safety Measures Deserve to Fail?

It's the last and probably longest Cyberlaw Podcast episode of 2023. To lead off, Megan Stifel takes us through a batch of stories about ways that AI, and especially AI t

Making the Rubble Bounce in Montana

In this episode, Paul Stephan lays out the reasoning behind U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy's decision enjoining Montana's ban on TikTok. There are some plausible re

Rohrschach AI

The OpenAI corporate drama came to a sudden end last week. So sudden, in fact, that the pundits never quite figured out What It All Means. Jim Dempsey and Michael Nelson

Defenestration at OpenAI

Paul Rosenzweig brings us up to date on the debate over renewing section 702, highlighting the introduction of the first credible "renew and reform" measure by the House

The Brussels Defect: Too Early is Worse Than Too Late. Plus: Mark MacCarthy's Book on "Regulating Digital Industries."

That, at least, is what I hear from my VC friends in Silicon Valley. And they wouldn't get an argument this week from EU negotiators facing what looks like a third rewrit