Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sees the birth of esports diplomacy — A somber Oleksandr Olegovich “S1mple” Kostyliev, esport superstar, was lent a microphone in front of a swarming crowd in Katowice, Poland. This wasn’t the typical post-game interview that Kostyliev has done hundreds of times before. Instead, Kostyliev took the chance to speak about the importance of solidarity in the wake…

Biden ended Bush’s failed war; he should end Bush’s failed surveillance state, too — If ever there was a poster child for a draconian legislative reaction to a crisis, it would be the mass surveillance USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. Ushered in after the September 11th terrorist attacks, many of the clauses and provisions from the PATRIOT Act continue to this day. President Biden…

Computer and internet laws always seem borked. Many were written at a time when digital tech was less developed and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is no exception. This summer, the Supreme Court in Van Buren v. …

Schools are a choice target for hackers and public policy isn’t helping (Originally published in The Hill, co-authored with Williamson M. Evers) The University of California (UC) system announced last month that it had been hit with a massive data breach. The locale was a third-party file-transfer application called Accellion…

Powered by a 1998 law, bots threaten the public’s right to know — (Originally published under a different title in The Hill, 03/30/21) A clever Beverly Hills police officer allegedly tried to thwart a police-reform activist’s attempt to post an unflattering video of the officer’s conduct by blasting Sublime’s song “Santeria” from his phone. Why would he do that? …

En 2014, Aaron Harvey, un joven de 26 años que estudiaba para obtener su licencia inmobiliaria, fue recibido por los alguaciles de los Estados Unidos en la puerta de su residencia en Las Vegas, Nevada. …

Originally published in RealClearEducation December 23, 2020. Coauthored by Dr. Williamson M. Evers. Colleges and universities nationwide are failing to safeguard the digital safety and privacy of their students. At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, schools faced new challenges when they were thrown into remote learning because of shelter-in-place…

In his work Life of Lycurgus, the 1st Century essayist and philosopher Plutarch gave a description of a iron based money in use by the ancient Spartans. The given account is that, after seeing the supposed evils prevailed by commerce, the “legendary lawmaker” Lycurgus ordered that all money be iron…

Proposition 24, Digital privacy is once again in the crosshairs of the unholy alliance between big data and government. The Personal Information Law and Agency Initiative of 2020, is on the November ballot. Alastair Mactaggart, the San Francisco real estate developer who filed the initiative, argues that Prop 24 would…