The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware
Explaining key issues holding up progress in commercial spyware governance.
Topic
Spyware
Results
5 publications
Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
Insights offered by the Wassenaar export controls into the regulation of commercial spyware — and why that, in turn, makes them instructive for current initiatives like the Pall Mall Process.
Building a Human-Rights–Compliant Spyware Market
This talk, cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, looks at how a multibillion-dollar spyware industry—fueled by zero-day exploits and shielded by corporate obfuscation—has outmaneuvered every law, sanction, and enforcement measure thrown at it. Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, spoke with BRSL’s Elaine Korzak, challenging the seductive simplicity of global moratoriums on the industry, and showing how they offer little more than the illusion of safety. The talk lays out a bold blueprint for a multilateral regime that can reclaim control over current and future surveillance technologies before they irreversibly erode human rights and democratic governance.
The Question of Legitimacy in State Surveillance Operations
In this BRSL webinar, lawyer and independent consultant Sarah McKune shares her assessment of the normalization of digital surveillance operations and the fundamental question of surveillance legitimacy under international human rights law. This discussion, cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, explored the essential components of a human rights law-compliant surveillance regime, and assessed existing gaps and challenges, drawing on the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other international normative developments, with a special highlight on the crucial role of transparency.
Navigating Spyware Governance, Meta’s Approach to Protecting Messaging & Social Media
In this webinar, Ingrid Dickinson will cover Meta’s approach to combatting surveillance-for-hire vendors and the private sector perspective on the spyware industry. The webinar will also touch on the limitations that private sector companies face in mitigating spyware attacks and why a whole-of-society approach is needed to build appropriate governance for this market.
Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
A round-table style discussion of Dr. Elaine Korzak’s new paper Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Dr. Korzak and BRSL Dir. Leah Walker moderated a discussion between guests James Shires, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Managing Editor of Binding Hook; Andrew J. Grotto, research scholar and co-director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; and Dr. Giacomo Persi Paoli, the Head of Programme Security and Technology at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
Managing Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
Examination of how multilateral export controls can be used to constrain commercial spyware and address human rights, national security and nonproliferation concerns stemming from the misuse of spyware technologies.