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How Should Governments Use Deepfakes?
Progress in deepfake technology and artificial intelligence can make manipulated media hard to identify, making deepfakes an appealing tool for gover…
2 years, 2 months ago
Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Fourteenth Amendment Ruling
On March 4, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Anderson, holding that states cannot disqualify Donald Trump from appearing on the presidential ballo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rational Security: The “Alan and the Owl” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien joined Alan, Quinta, and Scott to discuss the week's big national security news…
2 years, 2 months ago
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Pending Motions Piling Up in Florida
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 7 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-i…
2 years, 2 months ago
Lawfare Archive: Judge John Bates on FISA in the News
From September 28, 2019: At the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, Benjamin Wittes sat down in front of a live audience with Judge John Bates, …
2 years, 2 months ago
The Hidden Alliance Between Tech and Government
The practice of surveillance capitalism—the widespread private collection and commodification of personal data—is well understood. Less well understo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Chatter: Spy Disguises in Fact and Fiction with Jonna Mendez
Jonna Mendez advanced in her Central Intelligence Agency career to become Chief of Disguise despite the many institutional challenges to women's prom…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bryan Choi on NIST's Software Un-Standards
Everyone agrees that the United States has a serious cybersecurity problem. But how to fix it—that's another question entirely. Over the past decade,…
2 years, 2 months ago
Lidsky and Koningisor on First Amendment Disequilibrium
Executive branch constraints and the posture of the media have shifted in significant ways over the past two decades. Lyrissa Lidsky and Christina Ko…
2 years, 2 months ago
The i-Soon Leaks with Winnona DeSombre Bernsen
In mid-February, Chinese cybersecurity firm i-Soon appeared to suffer a massive data leak, which offered unprecedented insight into the operations of…
2 years, 2 months ago