In our 283rd episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker interviews Alex Joel, the former Chief of the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and currently scholar-in-residence and adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law. Stewart and Alex are joined by Gus Hurwitz (@GusHurwitz), Dave Aitel (@daveaitel), and Dan Podair to discuss: The Ninth Circuit reversed a district court's decision on a case involving Section 230 and anticompetitive behavior.; Business takeaways from the recently announced regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act.; The US launched a cyber operation against Iran following the attacks against Saudi oil facilities.; Avast was attacked and compromised, but maybe not fatally.; APT group Turla appears to have taken over the attack infrastructure of the APT group OilRig.; Some of Equifax's embarrassing security failings were exposed.; FireEye issued a report on APT41's espionage and cybercrime activities.; CrowdStrike issued a report on Chinese efforts to steal aircraft intellectual property.; The British government dropped its plan to require identification to view online pornography. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.
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