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On Tuesday, tune into Lawfare's YouTube channel to watch the second installment of Lawfare's “Deportation, Inc.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy," series, produced with @situ-research.bsky.social and @theintercept.com.

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The government argues CNN v. Trump is about national security. The president says it's about “bad stories.”

For more on the competing First Amendment and national security arguments at play, what happened in the latest hearing, and more, read @mollyroberts.bsky.social's dispatch below.

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At 4pm ET, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social will discuss the preliminary injunction hearing in CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration and more.

youtube.comLawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 9On Friday, October 9, at 4 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and E...
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"If the ultimate goal is to keep the military from posing a threat to democracy...military professionalism alone cannot sustain healthy civil-military relations. A corresponding civilian professionalism is necessary as well," Loren Voss writes in a review of @kschake.bsky.social's new book.

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On Sept. 1, the Justice Department filed a brief supporting American AI companies’ right to train models on copyrighted text, but seems to criticize Chinese companies for similar conduct, a puzzle Lisa Klaassen calls the “distillation paradox.”

lawfaremedia.orgThe AI Model Distillation ParadoxWhen U.S. labs train models on the world’s writing, Washington calls it fair use. When Chinese labs train on U.S. outputs, it’s a “malicious attack.” It can’t have it both ways.
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Thank you to @lawfaremedia.org for a detailed chat about CROSSING THE RED LINE 🙏🏽

We discussed the Biden admin’s perversion of government processes to sustain weapons for Israel, its choices to fuel bloodshed in Gaza & danger for Isr hostages+more & bids by Brett McGurk and others to rewrite history

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Ceren Fitoz, a member of Berkeley’s Human Rights Center that analyzed data from the Mexican military on its use of spyware and surveillance technology released by hackers, explains the challenges they faced and the lessons other investigators confronting similar problems could learn.

lawfaremedia.orgA Case Study in Pivoting: Investigating Hacked and Leaked Data on a BudgetAI may help, but nonprofits still face an uphill battle in allocating resources for extensive investigations into human rights abuses.
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After attending a citizens' assembly in Utah on AI regulation in the state, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social interviewed @audreyt.org about whether these gatherings (and other related deliberative democracy mechanisms) could work for gathering input on AI governance, or have unintended consequences.

lawfaremedia.orgCitizens’ Assemblies in AI Governance: An Interview With Audrey TangTang comments on communities and stakeholders increasingly examining alternative mechanisms for change.
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A common objection to American pauses in AI research to ensure that humans remain reliably in control of these systems is concern about China. A deal with China will need to leverage the threat of throttling to encourage mutual pacing, writes Simon Goldstein & @petersalib.bsky.social.

lawfaremedia.orgHow to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for PacingChina will not agree to an AI pacing deal that puts them permanently in second place. The U.S. must therefore be prepared to use the threat of throttling to encourage a mutual deal.
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The leading automated license plate reader manufacturer, Flock, does not just read license plates anymore, but deploys an AI-driven system that police can use to track people. Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon explain what safeguards should be enacted and the obstacles to enforcing them.

lawfaremedia.orgThe Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI SurveillanceFlock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up.
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