88 | TikTok: A Path for Election Interference and Open Source Intelligence?

This week our guest is Susan Israel, principal of Susan Israel Law, and one of the most respected privacy professionals in the field. Susan has a pre-law background in broadcast news and publishing and has become one of the foremost experts on privacy compliance in the field of advertising technology. We discuss key aspects of AdTech compliance, such as cookies, location data, and IP addresses, the issues associated with them, and trends in legal frameworks and regulatory approaches. Susan also delves into industry groups playing a large role in AdTech and US and EU government perspectives.

13 Huhti 202340min

This week’s podcast guest is Chris Jay Hoofnagle, professor of law in residence at the University of California, Berkeley and affiliated faculty with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. We discuss Chris and Simson Garfinkel’s new book, Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, what quantum technologies are, the consequential implications of quantum technologies, actions within the White House and Congress supporting quantum R&D, and geopolitical issues in the race to develop quantum technologies.

29 Maalis 202337min

This week our guest is Heather West, Silicon Valley rock star and Senior Director of Cybersecurity Services at Venable LLP. We explore artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots, such as ChatGPT, and discuss what these technologies can do, who will be early adopters and beneficiaries of AI, whether articles or answers generated by AI can be trusted, and look at some of the privacy and security risks associated with AI. Heather is policy and tech translator, product consultant, and long-term Internet strategies working at the intersection of emerging technologies, culture, governments, and policy. Prior to joining Venable, Heather had stints at Meta and Mozilla.

22 Helmi 202333min

Lauren Wallace, Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel for RadarFirst, a leading tool for cyber incident management joins our host, Jody Wesby, on episode 86 of ADCG on Privacy & Cybersecurity. Building off our last podcast with Violet Sullivan, we discuss how privacy and cybersecurity incidents are converging and the difficulty large companies are having in managing the vast array of data involved in incident response, especially as it relates to U.S. and global privacy and cybersecurity compliance requirements. We also delve into the complexity of notification requirements, involving law enforcement, consumer protection agencies, attorneys general, regulators, and victims and how incident response tools can help manage the notification process and decrease notification. Lauren Wallace is a digital privacy subject matter expert, working at the intersection of technology and data subject rights. A senior privacy and technology counsel, Lauren has significant real-world experience in enterprise technology transactions, data protection, partnerships, and product.

16 Helmi 202336min

This week we are joined by Violet Sullivan, Vice President of Client Engagement for Redpoint Cybersecurity, and incident response expert. Violet discusses how incident response has changed over the past five years, how ransomware has changed IR plans and how companies respond to attacks, and how cyber insurance has pushed revisions to incident response. We also discuss the role incident response plays in litigation management, and what companies can do to improve their response and reduce risk.

8 Helmi 202330min

In this episode, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive discusses his work backing up the Internet, TV, radio, chats, etc. around the globe, and the role it plays in preserving not only data, but cultures of countries. Mark describes the value of having content preserved and accessible from a source where governments can’t take it down and discusses the Internet Archive’s project in backing up and scanning data important to Urkaine’s culture, which is getting destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Archive.org and the Wayback Machine are live and freely accessible to research, journalism, academia, businesses, and ordinary people. Additional Resources: • https://archive.org/web/ • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/our-mission-is-crucial-meet-the-warrior-librarians-of-ukraine • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/russia-nord-stream-tucker-carlson-fox-news/ • http://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfqV_adW54&t=19842s

16 Joulu 202232min

In this episode, we are joined by Matthew Esworthy, partner at Bowie-Jensen LLP, to discuss geofence warrants and their use by law enforcement in investigating the January 6 insurrection. Geofence warrants involve court issued warrants for geolocation data from Google. These warrants were sealed and have only recently come to light through motions to suppress the evidence obtained from the geofence warrants. We explore Google’s process for responding to the 10,000 warrants it receives annually and the constitutional and legal issues swirling around them.

7 Joulu 202238min