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A law the government cites as authority for the bulk collection of millions of Americans’ communications records---Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act---expires unless Congress extends it by Memorial Day week...
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Today's document details the implementation of reforms that the President announced a little more than a year ago. For background on the directive, Lisa Monaco's statement from the White House is here.
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Next Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the D.C.
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Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the first of two day-long hearings on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General of the United States.
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The Intercept posted an interesting document yesterday designed to help a certain class of would-be-criminals---leakers of classified information---but which will, I would imagine, interest a different g...
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On Friday, the former spoke by videolink with the latter, about (unsurprisingly enough) surveillance, privacy and data security.
Youtube has a video of their discussion:
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Last week, Wells noted the release of an important, 85-page report by the National Research Council. (Yesterday, Herb Lin added his thoughts about it.) Broadly, Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: T...
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On January 15, 2015, the National Research Council released a report entitled Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options.
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David Sanger and Martin Fackler write in the NYT that the NSA “drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Kor...
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Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp...
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The U.S.
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Scientific Computing had this news yesterday, about the important DNI-ordered study from the National Research Council:
WASHINGTON, DC — No software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection ...
