FBI wiretap notices in misuse of campaign funds in California show the importance of notice as a constitutional protection for electronic searches, even as they make Sacramento insiders nervous, I tell @straightarrownews.bsky.social @danlevincomedy.bsky.social san.com/cc/californi...

I spoke with the @nytimes.com today about the @cloudflare.social outage. It's past time for Congress looks at the issue. Coming just after @awscloud.bsky.social and @azure.microsoft.com, our hands-off approach to Big Tech is becoming a national security liability. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...

"Encryption is a human right, and it's a bird right too." Celebrating Global Encryption Day with @josephhall.org & his parrot.

Is the internet too dependent on AWS? Experts weigh in — @timothy-edgar.bsky.social told ABC News that relying on only a few major big tech cloud providers creates significant infrastructure vulnerabilities.

To call this administration a clown show would be to insult clowns, many of whom are highly trained professionals, unlike these absolute clueless amateurs.

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist. But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a... You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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Brown responds.

My take on what the Supreme Court's term means for the internet, in Harvard Law Today (scroll down to Timothy Edgar, Lecturer on Law). hls.harvard.edu/today/evalua...

Identity/credential services should not be snooping on us. #nophonehome

It’s a special honor to be among those receiving honorary degrees from Brown. It’s a place that welcomed me and shaped me and challenged me and liberated me, and made possible everything that came after. I’m looking forward to celebrating this weekend with friends. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

With renewed relevance, this explainer I wrote last month: Signal Gate: The Criminal Law Precedents That Are Most Relevant The key legal issues are: --> 18 U.S.C. 793(f)(1) of the Espionage Act - gross negligence --> Destruction of government records

In a last-minute switch, the #CISA said it will continue funding a contract for #MITRE to manage the CVE program and other vulnerability databases. via @derekbjohnson.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/cisa-reverse...

Facebook whistleblower testimony on Mark Zuckerberg's cooperation with CCP shows why Congress was wrong to focus exclusively on TikTok when US and other Big Tech companies play footsie with China in service of the bottom line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzx...

Some riveting testimony from a whistleblower on Facebook's detailed cooperation with CCP censorship even as Mark Zuckerberg was denying this before Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzx...

Everything in the "Houthi PC small group" chat, including the name, should only have been discussed in classified channels. www.businessinsider.com/trump-admini...

Historical tidbit: the reason it was called D-Day is so the Germans wouldn't know what DAY the attack was coming, which was sensitive even though they didn't know where the attack was coming.

Leaving the nuclear codes in a Starbucks would be reckless even if a journalist noticed and politely gave them back to you without publishing them.

Just so we're all clear on the law: it is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to allow "information relating to the national defense through gross negligence" to be delivered to people not allowed to received it. Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. § 793(f).

A high-level conversation about whether to conduct military operations, and following them in real time, is literally what the Situation Room is for. Saying they were unclassified insults our intelligence. www.businessinsider.com/trump-admini...

Don't have classified conversations on commercial platforms - and yes, discussing military strikes before they happen is classified, I tell @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/trump-admini...

SignalGate Isn’t About Signal The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them. www.wired.com/story/signal...

I'll be speaking with @pgeddington.com and Michael Fox about my book, "Policing White Supremacy," on Wednesday, March 26 at 1pm at the Cato Institute in D.C. @cato.org Join us for a lively discussion! Register here: www.cato.org/events/polic...

Holy cow❗ People apparently _returned_ from El Salvador for mistaken identity etc. in Alien Enemies Act deportations. This new development appears to show that the Trump administration's claim that they know all detainees sent to El Salvador prison were properly vetted may be dangerously false.⬇️

This will be a test of the new, close relationships tech has been building with Trump. If tech calls Congress’ bluff and Trump so much as lifts a finger, lawmakers’ only play will be to roll over or to push the big red button that blows up the internet, even as they admit that’s not the goal.

The authoritative Sam Bray weighs in with terrific points about the current universal injunction spats, in part in response to what I wrote this morning. blog.dividedargument.com/p/whats-new-...

Large language model technology is super-charging video analytics. Unless we enact guardrails, we can expect that nearly every rule, regulation, law, and employer dictate that can be enforced through the visual monitoring of human beings will be subject to unblinking AI cameras ready to report us.

Unsurprisingly, Trump's new cyber team talks tough about offensive cyber operations, while DOGE continues ransacking government agencies that actually defend our critical infrastructure. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Clock is ticking for #TikTok with Trump's 75-day extension set to run out on April 5. Great discussion at @harvardlawschool.bsky.social between @alanrozenshtein.com and @anupamchander.bsky.social news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I wrote about how DOGE is “terminating” the office that oversees the country’s transuranic nuclear waste. If you’re in govt and you want to share what else DOGE is doing for more stories like this, I’m on Signal at annakramer.54 and will keep writing about this for @notusreports.bsky.social

TikTok's future uncertain after Trump's executive order, experts say — In ABC News, @timothy-edgar.bsky.social highlights TikTok's $850 billion liability risk under U.S. law and notes potential app degradation over time without updates.

I'm doubtful it will make a difference. There's nothing the letter does that the executive order hasn't already done. And to be clear, what it's done is exactly nothing.

What Just Happened: What Trump’s Hobbling Privacy Oversight Board Portends for Exercise of #Surveillance Powers by Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann11.bsky.social) #privacy #DigitalPrivacy #PCLOB Thanks to reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social

Among another things, making PCLOB shut down would have big implications for the US-EU Data Privacy Framework, which enables businesses to send Europeans' data to the US despite strong EU data privacy laws. I wonder if European owners of Teslas have data from their cars coming to Tesla HQ in the US.

Deeply troubling news today as The New York Times reports that President Trump has threatened to terminate Democratic Members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) if they do not resign by tomorrow, January 23. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

#TikTok can easily survive the 75 days that Trump has promised not to enforce the law as long as cloud providers are on board, even with Apple and Google choosing to remove it from app stores, I tell @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC News. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

Tech companies are divided on whether to keep #TikTok going. Oracle and Akamai are still hosting data, but Apple and Google have removed it from app stores. It's a big gamble: $850 billion in fines if Trump changes his mind. I spoke to @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

Trump's order delaying the #TikTok ban ignores the law, but by using national security arguments he makes it harder for anyone to challenge his failure to enforce it, I tell @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC News. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

We Episcopalians are very proud of Bishop Budde and fully stand by her sermon.

The incomparable @lizagoitein.bsky.social has been sounding the alarm for years about the long list of emergency laws that give President Trump - or any President - far too much power. There was a four-year window for reforming these laws, but Congress and President Biden did nothing.

Can US providers like Oracle and Akamai rely on President Trump's promise not to enforce the #TikTok ban? Why no, no they can't. Great analysis from @alanrozenshtein.com in @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

Tim Edgar, former DNI privacy and civil liberties officer, is out with a cutting analysis of the Supreme Court's unanimous #TikTok decision, which he says was produced by bipartisan panic and "ranks among the worst constitutional decisions in American history." www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth...

If we are serious about the national security risks of Chinese spies (or anyone else) getting our data from social media, banning TikTok won't do it: we need a real privacy law. My interview with @victorblackwell7.bsky.social and Amara Walker on @cnn.com video.snapstream.net/Play/ayGtaqd...

If this is accurate, the service providers have more faith in unenforceable promises than is prudent IMO when the downside is $850 billion in liability.

This was predictable. The law imposes penalties of up to $850 Billion - with a "B." No company in the complex interlocking web of internet infrastructure - not app stores, not hosting providers, not VPNs - is going to risk that liability.

This free speech mess was brought to you by all three branches of government. Great job, guys.

TikTok ban: How to download your videos and data

The American people deserved better than this rushed Supreme Court decision on the #TikTok ban that ignored the viable alternatives we outlined in our national security scholars brief. My BBC interview with @anitaanand.bsky.social. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...