Our headline story for this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is the UK’s sweeping new On-line Security Act, which regulates social median in a bunch of the way. Mark MacCarthy spells a few of them out, however the massive shock is encryption. U.S. encrypted messaging corporations used up all of the oxygen within the room hyperventilating in regards to the danger that end-to-end encryption could be regulated and bragging about their willpower to withstand. Because of this, journalists have paid little consideration to some other provision up to now yr or two. And even then, they bought it mistaken, gleefully claiming that the UK had backed down and stripped authority to control encrypted apps from the invoice. Mark and I clarify simply how mistaken they’re. It was the messaging corporations who blinked and who are actually pretending they received.
In cybersecurity information, David Kris and I’ve variety phrases for DHS’s report on easy methods to coordinate cyber incident reporting. Sadly, there is a huge gulf between writing an excellent report on coordinating incident reporting and really, , coordinating incident reporting. David additionally presents a beneficiant view of the conservative catfight over part 702 of FISA between former Congressman Bob Goodlatte on one facet and Michael Ellis and me on the opposite. The most recent installment in that battle is right here.
If you should atone for the raft of antitrust lawsuits launched by the Biden administration, Gus Hurwitz has you coated. First, he explains what’s at stake within the Justice Division’s case in opposition to Google – and why we do not know extra about it. Then he presents a preview of the approaching FTC case in opposition to Amazon. Adopted by his criticism of Lina Khan’s choice to call three Amazon execs as targets within the FTC’s different massive Amazon case – over Prime membership. Amazon is clearly Lina Khan’s White Whale, however that does not imply that everybody who works ought to be sushi.
Mark picks up the competitors legislation theme, explaining the UK competitors watchdog’s rules for AI regulation. Alongside the best way, he exhibits that whether or not AI is regulated by one entity or a number of might have a profound influence on what sort of regulation AI will get.
I replace listeners on the litigation over the Biden administration’s stress on social media corporations to ban misinformation and use the story to plug the newest Cybertoonz commentary on the case. I additionally observe the Commerce Division declare that its controls on chip expertise haven’t failed as a result of there is no proof that China could make superior chips “at scale.” However the Commerce Division would say that, would not they? Lastly, for This Week in Anticlimactic Privateness Information, I observe that the UK has determined, following the EU ruling, that it too considers U.S. legislation “satisfactory” for functions of transatlantic knowledge transfers.
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