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A must read! My students have been reading for years.

Cybersecurity and privacy technology offer better solutions. Courts and lawmakers should do better!

Tl/dr: more control and less freedom online, as the justices decide to prioritize potential harms in uphold a ban on TikTok and age verification for accessing pornography.

Terrific for Maine!

Principals Committee. It's the highest level in the National Security Council below the President.

Remember when Trump tore up documents and flushed them down the WH toilet in his first term? Here's a good analysis in @lawfare.bsky.social of the laws that were broken then. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

There are also criminal penalties for intentionally making US government records disappear. 18 U.S.C. § 641 (“Whoever . . . disposes of any record . . . of the United States . . . [s]hall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”)

The law specifically provides that using private messaging services without copying official accounts for records preservation subjects WH staff to disciplinary action. 44 U.S.C. § 2209.