Timothy Edgar

I teach privacy and cybersecurity at Brown U and Harvard Law School; author of Beyond Snowden; ex-White House; also at [email protected]

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@MattPerault What is so disingenuous is that the patchwork is because industry successfully lobbied to keep the Federal Gov from passing a standard all of these years to preserve exploitive business models that abuse consumers. Now you want to replicate that with AI. We aren’t stupid.

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

https://t.co/HOAS7yYcdO

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

FBI wiretap notices in misuse of campaign funds in California show the importance of notice as a constitutional protection for electronic searches, even as they make Sacramento insiders nervous. Great talking with @_DanLevin at @StraightArrow__

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

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

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

My take on what the Supreme Court's term means for the internet, in Harvard Law Today (scroll down to Timothy Edgar, Lecturer on Law)

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

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.

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

Members of the Brown community gathered on Friday, May 23, to honor students who have dedicated themselves not only to a Brown education, but also to serving their country as members of the U.S. armed forces. #BrownU #Brown2025

Read more: https://t.co/hSbZoZ514F

[Watson School at Brown @Watson_School]

TikTok's future uncertain after Trump's executive order, experts say — In @ABC, @Timothy_Edgar highlights TikTok's $850 billion liability risk under U.S. law and notes potential app degradation over time without updates.

https://t.co/165M3alhom

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

https://t.co/7N4x1FpRg2

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

#TikTok can easily survive the 75 days that Trump has promised not to enforce the law as long as cloud providers are on board, even with Apple and Google choosing to remove it from app stores, I tell @MaxZahn_ at @ABC

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

Trump's order delaying the #TikTok ban ignores the law, but by using national security arguments he makes it harder for anyone outside the executive branch to challenge his failure to enforce it.

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

There's an image.

[Rush Doshi @RushDoshi]

Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President Trump’s inauguration?

Evidently, yes.

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

https://t.co/Kcb4tzrKuQ

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

Can US providers like Oracle and Akamai rely on President Trump's promise not to enforce the #TikTok ban?

Why no, no they can't.

Great legal analysis from @ARozenshtein in @lawfare

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

@KevinBankston I'm not sure they thought through the implications of their "the president gets to ignore the law" idea.

[Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb]

I am old enough to remember when Silicon Valley, and D.C., freaked out every time a country like Turkey or Iran blocked American social media apps. How times have changed.

[Timothy Edgar @Timothy_Edgar]

If we are serious about the national security risks of Chinese spies (or anyone else) getting our data from social media, banning TikTok won't do it: we need a real privacy law. My interview with @VictorBlackwell and @AmaraCNN on @CNN https://t.co/MePSLifTgh

[Adam Kovacevich @adamkovac]

Of course, executive orders can't amend statutes. Congressional Republicans agree. Here's Republican Rep @RepFrankLucas:
https://t.co/ZZHYNzPoOu