My friend Stewart Baker has likened the privacy requirements of the draft NIST framework to a “privacy tax.” His fear, which has sound economic force, is that the imposition of privacy protective requirements on cybersecurity efforts will drive up…
Lawfare readers will recall that I earlier blogged about the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Wyndham Hotels. Under the mantle of its consumer protection mandate, the FTC has sought to impose civil penalties against those companies who do not…
Just before Thanksgiving, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (which has among its membership luminaries such as Eric Schmidt of Google and Shirley Ann Jackson, the President of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute) issued a…
Congress is in recess now (that’s why it’s so quiet here in Washington) and when they return the first order of business for the Senate is to take up the 2014 NDAA. The bill, authorizing activities of the Department of Defense, is one of the few…
Over the past month, Jane Chong has written a series of posts published over at Security States that go under the title “Bad Code.” Her thesis (amply documented) is that those who write software code generally take inadequate precautions to ensure…
