timothy-edgar.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Unsurprisingly, Trump's new cyber team talks tough about offensive cyber operations, while DOGE continues ransacking government agencies that actually defend our critical infrastructure. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Clock is ticking for #TikTok with Trump's 75-day extension set to run out on April 5. Great discussion at @harvardlawschool.bsky.social between @alanrozenshtein.com and @anupamchander.bsky.social news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about how DOGE is “terminating” the office that oversees the country’s transuranic nuclear waste. If you’re in govt and you want to share what else DOGE is doing for more stories like this, I’m on Signal at annakramer.54 and will keep writing about this for @notusreports.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

TikTok's future uncertain after Trump's executive order, experts say — In ABC News, @timothy-edgar.bsky.social highlights TikTok's $850 billion liability risk under U.S. law and notes potential app degradation over time without updates.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I'm doubtful it will make a difference. There's nothing the letter does that the executive order hasn't already done. And to be clear, what it's done is exactly nothing.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

What Just Happened: What Trump’s Hobbling Privacy Oversight Board Portends for Exercise of #Surveillance Powers by Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann11.bsky.social) #privacy #DigitalPrivacy #PCLOB Thanks to reporting by @charliesavage.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Deeply troubling news today as The New York Times reports that President Trump has threatened to terminate Democratic Members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) if they do not resign by tomorrow, January 23. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

#TikTok can easily survive the 75 days that Trump has promised not to enforce the law as long as cloud providers are on board, even with Apple and Google choosing to remove it from app stores, I tell @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC News. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Tech companies are divided on whether to keep #TikTok going. Oracle and Akamai are still hosting data, but Apple and Google have removed it from app stores. It's a big gamble: $850 billion in fines if Trump changes his mind. I spoke to @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's order delaying the #TikTok ban ignores the law, but by using national security arguments he makes it harder for anyone to challenge his failure to enforce it, I tell @max-zahn.bsky.social at ABC News. abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The incomparable @lizagoitein.bsky.social has been sounding the alarm for years about the long list of emergency laws that give President Trump - or any President - far too much power. There was a four-year window for reforming these laws, but Congress and President Biden did nothing.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Can US providers like Oracle and Akamai rely on President Trump's promise not to enforce the #TikTok ban? Why no, no they can't. Great analysis from @alanrozenshtein.com in @lawfare.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Tim Edgar, former DNI privacy and civil liberties officer, is out with a cutting analysis of the Supreme Court's unanimous #TikTok decision, which he says was produced by bipartisan panic and "ranks among the worst constitutional decisions in American history." www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

If we are serious about the national security risks of Chinese spies (or anyone else) getting our data from social media, banning TikTok won't do it: we need a real privacy law. My interview with @victorblackwell7.bsky.social and Amara Walker on @cnn.com video.snapstream.net/Play/ayGtaqd...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

If this is accurate, the service providers have more faith in unenforceable promises than is prudent IMO when the downside is $850 billion in liability.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

This was predictable. The law imposes penalties of up to $850 Billion - with a "B." No company in the complex interlocking web of internet infrastructure - not app stores, not hosting providers, not VPNs - is going to risk that liability.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This free speech mess was brought to you by all three branches of government. Great job, guys.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

TikTok ban: How to download your videos and data

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

The American people deserved better than this rushed Supreme Court decision on the #TikTok ban that ignored the viable alternatives we outlined in our national security scholars brief. My BBC interview with @anitaanand.bsky.social. www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I promise this is the last time I use this meme, but it's just too on the nose!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

“With just hours to go before it is set to shut down, many senators and representatives are still posting on the app they claim is too dangerous for the rest of us to use” reason.com/2025/01/17/t...

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

"The Texas law robs adult internet users of anonymity, exposes them to serious privacy and security risks, and blocks some adults entirely from accessing sexual content that’s protected under the First Amendment," EFF’s Lisa Femia told @mashablebot.bsky.social.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

can the United States ever again, with a straight face, argue that another country's internet shutdown, website blocking, app-banning, etc is a violation of the global right to freedom of expression? that it's unnecessary for national security? no. imo its prior moral authority is getting shredded.

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

Exactly this!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court's unnecessarily rushed and unanimous (!) decision upholding the #TikTok ban will go down with Whitney v California (1927) and Abrams v US (1919) as the product of a bipartisan national security panic and ranks among the worst constitutional decisions in American history.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder, from the January 21, 2009, that headline-grabbing Inauguration-day executive orders do not always work out. Some announced changes are quickly realized, some are slow and grinding, and some are never realized.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Hear me out: What if, instead of infringing on Americans’ rights and taking stuff away from them, Congress gave them even more rights? If that sounds good to you, that’s fundamentally what a national data privacy law — governing all companies, not just the Big Bad of the day — is all about.

submitted 48 days ago • 16 comments

Imagine: we could have privacy, security . . . and free speech! Incredible.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments