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Ransomware Attacks Will End, But Not Anytime Soon
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Weifeng on The John Batchelor Show - TikTok
Trump talks tough on TikTok, and Weifeng Zhong joins John Batchelor to help make sense of it all. Listen on Soundcloud.
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Weifeng on The Lars Larson Show - TikTok
Weifeng Zhong explains how an app Gen Z uses to share goofy videos became a major threat to national security. Listen on
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COVID-19 Illuminates the Blessings and Vulnerabilities of the Internet
Had the COVID-19 crisis occurred 30 years ago—before the internet became a part of everyday life—the depth of the crisis would

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The FBI Wants Access to a Mass Shooter's iPhone. Will They Demand a Back Door?
Andrea O'Sullivan writes on renewed efforts by the federal government to seek a backdoor into Americans' phone data following a
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Tech Policy, Unintended Consequences & the Failure of Good Intentions
It is quickly becoming one of the iron laws of technology policy that by attempting to address one problem (like privacy

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Testimony to the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Telemedicine and Cybersecurity
Good morning, Chairman Angelo Puppolo, Vice Chair Aaron Vega, Ranking Minority Member Marc Lombardo, and distinguished members
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Section 230 Isn’t an Aberration, It’s a Distillation of Common Law Trends
Is platform liability protection a gross exception to American publishing standards? Opponents of a rule called Section 230

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Facebook and Antitrust, Part 3: Will Structural Remedies Solve Alleged Problems?
The mantra of “breaking up Big Tech” is increasingly a rallying cry for members of both parties, but it specifies neither the

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The Importance of Balancing Privacy with Innovation, Consumer Benefits, and Other Rights in the FTC’s Approach to Consumer Data Privacy
I welcome the opportunity to submit comments regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) requests and recent hearings on
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What GDPR's First Year Says about Data Privacy Regulation
Almost a year ago, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. In that year, the United

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What Schumpeter Would Say about Techlash
A bipartisan anti-tech fever has taken hold in Washington with Left and Right alike calling for greater regulation of America’s

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How the United States Should Respond to China’s Intellectual Property Practices
The United States and China are approaching a critical point in a dispute over China’s practices on intellectual property (IP)
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The Importance of Avoiding Unintended Consequences When Defining Harm for Data Security and Data Privacy
Good afternoon, Chairman Krishnamoorthi, Ranking Member Cloud, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee on Economic and
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Using Networks to Govern Network Problems
Today, botnets and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that can accompany them, are considered among “the most
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Data Surveillance Shows Why We Need Cash, Cryptocurrencies
Andrea O'Sullivan discusses the implications of a cashless economy on individual privacy.Read it at Reason.
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Should the Government Require Companies to Meet Cybersecurity Standards for Critical Infrastructure?
Anne Hobson explains why government cybersecurity mandates can actually expose American infrastructure to attack.
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Facebook Hack Another Warning Sign against Online Centralization
Andrea O'Sullivan writes at Reason that the recent Facebook hacks are another good reason to distrust centralization in tech.
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Learning to Improve Resiliency against Cyberattacks
In June 2017, one of the most destructive and widespread cybersecurity attacks yet — codenamed NotPetya — immobilized companies
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Disaster Relief Offers Cybersecurity Lessons
Security researchers earlier this month identified a botnet threat called Reaper that recalled last year’s internet-crippling