What does it look like when the government violates court orders in 300 separate immigration habeas cases? @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org announce a new database which tracks government non-compliance with court orders around the country.
Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders
A database of non-compliance with court orders around the country.
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The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, Kevin Frazier, @eugenia.bsky.social, and @petereharrell.bsky.social dive deep into the week’s national security news, including the spat bewteen the Trump administration and Colombia, a freeze of U.S. foreign assistance programs, and more.
Rational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare” Edition
Scott Anderson, Kevin Frazier, Eugenia Lostri, and special guest Peter Harrell dived deep into the week’s national security news.
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Trump White House told the three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign by tomorrow or be fired. Ousting them would paralyze the independent, bipartisan watchdog agency. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog
The Trump White House has told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired, which would stop the independent agency from functioning.
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On Jan. 20, Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States. In his first hours in office, President Trump announced a flurry of executive orders, which range from pardoning Jan. 6 defendants to declaring a national emergency at the border. Find summaries of national security EOs here:
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On Lawfare Daily, @eugenia.bsky.social spoke to Kevin Frazier about recent disruptions to undersea cables, ongoing investigations, the challenges that weather, cooperation, and jurisdiction can present, and the plans in place to protect the cables from accidents and sabotage.
Lawfare Daily: Discussing Recent Disruptions to Undersea Cables with Kevin Frazier
How can undersea cables be protected?
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NEW: Biden this AM issued a cyber executive order teeing up work on software security, cloud, AI, fed network protection, digital identity, and more. It's partly a response to lessons learned from major hacks. My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/biden-... Read on for details... 🧵
Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe *DON'T* mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!
Senator Mark Warner@markwarner.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.
Meta has told employees that they're laying off 5 percent of staff on Feb. 10, sources tell me & @mikeisaac.bsky.social @sheeraf.bsky.social. Layoffs are coming after employees have pushed back on new content moderation rules.
The more I think about Mark Zuckerberg’s excuses for complying with Biden administration pressure to remove content, the angrier I get. (It was the media’s fault! Or maybe it was the woke Californians way down the reporting chain. Or was it “feminine energy”?) 1/
NEW: Some big breaking(ish) news in the ransomware world. Britain will propose on Tuesday a major overhaul of how the country responds to ransomware attacks, including by banning public sector bodies from making extortion payments and requiring all victims to report incidents to the government.
UK proposes banning hospitals and schools from making ransomware payments
The proposed rules would ban public sector bodies in the UK from making extortion payments and require all victims to report ransomware incidents to the government.
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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
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My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
“Because the Democrats tend to be inept and incompetent in explaining reality to people, Rep. Jerry Nadler released the report on New Year’s Eve where it basically got zero attention.” JFC. I follow this issue obsessively and I didn’t even see this until now. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/10/c...
Congressional Report Accuses Jordan, Musk Of Weaponizing Gov’t To Silence Critics
For quite some time now, we’ve pointed out how Jim Jordan has weaponized the government to suppress speech. Quite frequently, he seems to be doing this in coordination with Elon Musk. And yet, some…
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Well there you have it. In his Rogan Interview Zuck argues that the “billions of EU fines” against US companies “basically amount to tariffs”, and “you’d expect the USG to defend its companies” abroad moving forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...
Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg
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Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social - no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses - no goals for hiring women and minorities
New this morning: Meta has deleted public-facing nonbinary and trans Messenger themes that it originally launched for Pride month in 2021 and 2022 www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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On Lawfare Daily, @eugenia.bsky.social sat down with Winnona DeSombre Bernsen and Nina Alli to talk about their recent report on seven cybersecurity villages, the value they can bring to security research, and how policymakers can benefit from engaging with them.
Lawfare Daily: Full Stack Policymaking
What are the benefits of cybersecurity villages?
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It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.
Meta's policy changes should be denounced, not only because they are a disgraceful display of obedience to Trump but primarily because of how they will harm LGBT+, PoC, and other populations. But I hope some reflection is given on how defending and pushing for censorship paved the way for this.
New: Meta says it is deleting those AI accounts. 404 Media confirmed that many of them being deleted at the moment www.404media.co/metas-ai-pro...
2024 was a long year—and we covered it all. Lawfare contributors looked back on the major events that occurred this year in the diverse range of the security landscape, from the Israel-Gaza War to AI to the Trump trials. It’s The Year That Was: 2024. www.lawfaremedia.org/resources/la...
The Year That Was (2024)
The issues—and Lawfare coverage—that kept our editors up at night in 2024.
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On Lawfare Daily, @eugenia.bsky.social spoke to Susan Landau and @arozenshtein.bsky.social about the recent FBI/CISA recommendation that Americans use encrypted messaging apps following the compromise of telecom companies by Salt Typhoon and what it means for the “Going Dark” debate.
Lawfare Daily: Susan Landau and Alan Rozenshtein Debate End-to-End Encryption (Again!)
What are the benefits and drawbacks of E2E?
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Hey there Rational Security listeners, we we are doing our traditional end-of-year episode where we discuss YOUR topics and object lessons! Send them to us at rationalsecurity@lawfaremedia.org or (202) 743-5831! Just get them in by COB on 12/18! #RationalSecurity @lawfare.bsky.social
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