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1 week ago | justsecurity.org | Tess Bridgeman |Ryan Goodman

We are delighted to announce that Dani Schulkin has joined Just Security as Director of Democracy Initiatives. Most recently, Schulkin served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General and Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor at the White House.

1 week ago | justsecurity.org | Luke Hogg |Renee DiResta

Editor’s Note: This article is part of Regulating Social Media Platforms: Government, Speech, and the Law, a symposium organized by Just Security, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and Tech Policy Press. Middleware, third-party software that serves as an intermediary between users and platforms, offers a potentially promising solution to counter the concentrated power of centralized social media platform governance.

1 week ago | justsecurity.org | Chris O'Meara

The militarization of outer space remains at the top of the international agenda. Tests of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons have fuelled fears over the weaponization of space, and the prospect of space being a source and place of armed conflict is a very real concern. Against this background, the U.N. General Assembly’s newly minted Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space is holding its first substantive session this week.

2 weeks ago | justsecurity.org | Hannah James

In December, a federal court in Brooklyn became the first to hold that searches of information acquired under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for U.S. persons’ communications are subject to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. The ruling, which was declassified in January, was a win for privacy advocates who have long argued as much.

2 weeks ago | justsecurity.org | Rebecca Hamilton |Jon Temin

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Saturday that the State Department was acting to “revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance to prevent entry into the United States by South Sudanese passport holders.” The rationale for this sweeping announcement is that the Transitional Government of South Sudan is not accepting the repatriation of its citizens from the United States “in a timely manner.” For South Sudan and its citizens, the timing could...