The NYT, based on a Le Monde story, reports that “France has its own large program of data collection, which sweeps up nearly all the data transmissions, including telephone calls, e-mails and social med...

In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life. It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...

Well, I'm back from China and I'm quite glad I did not take my personal electronics with me.  I thought it might be useful to summarize my experiences with internet access in China, kind of as a report f...

Early this morning the White House released a statement by President Obama on Egypt stating, inter alia, that "Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to re...

At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca...

A few weeks ago, I found myself at dinner in Seattle with a man named Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, for readers who have never heard of him, is the founder and CEO of a company called Intellectual Ventures.

The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available....

His long-pending motion for a preliminary injunction having been denied in May, Yemeni detainee Hani Abdullah now has noted his appeal to the D.C. Circuit.

A sad coda to the story of Adnan Latif, the Guantánamo detainee found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012. As I mentioned in yesterday's roundup, a classified military report released on Friday confirm...