(April 18th, 2016) Here’s a look, in the wake of the “Panama Papers’’ scandal about how rich and/or powerful people hide money in offshore accounts, at how cyberhackers are challenging the establishment in Pakistan.

(April 18th, 2016) European Union privacy regulators want changes to a proposed new EU-U.S. Digital- privacy accord. The Wall Street Journal thinks that this pushback increases the likelihood that the deal will end up challenged in court,  leaving “thousands of...

( April 18th, 2016)  U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Richard Burr and the panel’s vice chairman,  Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, are circulating proposed legislation that would require companies to unlock encrypted data, in, for example, an...

(April 11st, 2016) The U.S. government has officially announced that it is launching cyberwarfare against the so-called Islamic State, in the first case of the U.S. publicly disclosing cyberattacks in warfare, although it has acted before against U.S. foes with...

(April 11st, 2016) Perhaps not surprisingly,  “the Panama Papers’’ -- the stunning pile  of documents involving national leaders and powerful businesspeople  around the world using offshore tax havens – includes the names of family members of major Chinese government...

(April 11th, 2016) The Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted a conference in Tokyo on March 28 as part of its BGF-G7 Summit Initiative.  The Initiative, a collaboration with the Japanese government, has prepared policy prescriptions to be considered by national leaders at...