Summary: In our 162nd episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Alan Cohn, Maury Shenk, and Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov discuss: Putin does what Putin does, this time in the French election: maybe with forged documents, plus prosecution threats for publishers, and NYT reporters whining about automated retweets ; OK, that's nuts, but quite possibly the plaintiff bar's future; transparency report reveals shocking stat on FBI searches of NSA data for criminal suspects. The bureau did it … once; less comforting stat: roughly a quarter of NSA's 4000 intel reports describing Americans disclosed the Americans' names; still no EO, but at least we have a new leaked draft; Home Depot settlement and what it means for class actions over breach; Trump White House's American Tech Council launched; UK floats draft interception bill to a select audience; Germany's intel service whines about Russian hacking and then about its lack of authority to, uh, hack back to destroy third party servers. Chris Painter, call your office!; DHS cybersecurity does well in budget dealDHS backpedals on privacy rights of non-Americans; ABA whines about border searches; Guardian plays world's smallest violin: Cybercrime on the high seas: the new threat facing billionaire superyacht owners; Uh-oh. Two factor authentication falls to SS7 hack. Our guest interview is with Susan Munro, Steptoe partner and head of our Beijing office to discuss China's new cyberlaw measures. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
