Summary: In our ninety-third episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, Jason Weinstein, and Alan Cohn discuss: proposals requiring social media sites to do more about online terrorist activity; first EU-wide cybersecurity rules for critical infrastructure and how they will affect US companies; Wyndham Hotels agrees to 20 years of privacy and security monitoring by the FTC; and encryption: Rep. McCaul to introduce a bill that creates encryption commission; White House meets with privacy advocates about encryption; FBI Chief says Texas gunman used encryption to text overseas terrorist. In our second half we have an interview with Rod Beckstrom, where we discuss his expansive career which started at DHS’s National Cybersecurity Center, he then headed ICANN; before and after those gigs, he was a Silicon Valley investor and officer in security startups as early as the 1990s and as recently as this year. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
