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Daily Dashboard | Op-ed: Government lawyers are not keeping up with tech landscape Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Garrett M. Graff details the struggle government lawyers are having in understanding digital technology and its role in contemporary legal cases. Graff writes lawyers’ lack of knowledge has hurt several cases and those who were wrongly targeted. “This situation is stymieing criminal investigations, upending innocents’ lives and making it harder to set legal boundaries around mass-surveillance programs,” Graff writes. “The result is that, when it comes to technology, justice is increasingly out of reach.” Lack of education options in law schools may be a contributing factor to the problem, he argues, while pointing out data security and privacy issues are “at the core of numerous corporate and government cases, and there aren’t anywhere near enough practicing lawyers who can adequately understand the complex issues involved, let alone who can sufficiently explain them in court or advise investigators on how to build a successful case.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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