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Mysterious Discretion: When Journalists Wield Power We Don't Understand
Last night, Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, a win I have been anticipating since Glenn Greenwald won the Pulitzer Prize back in April for breaking the ... -
Why Should We Buy Into The Notion That The United States Doesn’t Care About Privacy?
It is a common perception that Americans care less about privacy than Europeans, especially after the attacks of September 11, and the Snowden revelations only seemed to reinforce that perception. Last w... -
The President’s Comments on European Privacy Claims and A Look Back at the LIBE Committee Report on Government Surveillance
President Obama made a refreshing observation during an interview with Re/Code at the White House Summit on Cyber Security and Consumer Protection in Silicon Valley last week. Following an exchange regar... -
Bits and Bytes
Are Submarines Becoming Obsolete? Perhaps, in light of enhanced data processing capabilities. "[T]he ability of submarines to hide through quieting alone will decrease as each successive decibel of noi... -
The New White House Information Sharing Executive Order
Last Friday, as part of the Cybersecurity summit at Stanford, President Obama announced a new information sharing initiative, and issued an Executive Order that was tied to the initiative. The EO will, ... -
The Equation Group's Sophisticated Hacking and Exploitation Tools
This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much t... -
Two Reflections on the White House Cybersecurity Summit
As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss... -
On the Anthem Hack
On February 5, 2015, Anthem---a health insurance company---announced that hackers had been able to access records containing tens of millions of names, birthdays, Social Security numbers, addresses and e... -
Searching the Dark Web
"By some estimates Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo only give us access to around 5% of the content on the Web." The Dark Web is vast and difficult to search -- you have to know where you are going to g... -
First Take on Government's Surveillance Reform Update Report
As Wells noted yesterday the Administration released its report on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-28. I am still reading through the documents, which include twelve new agency-... -
Live: Bob Litt Speaks at Brookings on Intelligence and Surveillance Reform
At the top of the hour, Robert S. Litt, General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will speak at the Brookings Institution. -
Data Analytics and Policing
This interesting article on the NYPD's use of data analytics came across my desk the other day. Here is the abstract: The New York City Police Department’s Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center i...
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