Ryan Lizza’s piece in this week’s New Yorker, “State of Deception,” is essential reading for those interested in surveillance and civil liberties.  It is a gripping account of the history of the NSA tele...

It is precarious to comment on a leaked version of broad conclusions from a government report.  But I think the NYT and WSJ accounts of the recommendations by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence...

From the department of Not a Joke, Appearances Notwithstanding comes this article from Forbes. My only explanation for this is that the folks over at the National Reconnaissance Office must be having a l...

Cheng Li’s and Ryan McElveen’s good post over the weekend (via Daniel Byman) sparked the following reflections on U.S. economic espionage, post-Snowden.  Li and McElveen nicely summarize U.S.-Chinese rel...

The world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) just got a little weirder. This morning Mark Mazzetti and Justin Elliott of the New York Times 

That's the gist of tonight's report, from Politico's Josh Gerstein:   President Barack Obama said Thursday that he'll be reining in some of the snooping conducted by the National Security Agency, but he ...

In another forum, my colleague, Rafal Rohozinski, made some interesting observations about the Greenwald/Snowden disclosures as they relate to Canada.  Rohozinski was formerly a Fellow at Harvard's Berkm...

That, at least, seems to be the point of this story in the Guardian, which opens: The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing arrangements with the US because of the Edward Snowden rev...

The National Security Agency is down in the dumps. It’s used to being heralded for brilliance.

As we've noted, amendments spanning several issues, including cybersecurity, and anti-terrorism laws, have been put forth as add-ons to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act.