Now we know:  the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court bounces a quarter of the government’s applications for surveillance orders.  This according to statistics released this week by the court’s chief...

For those who are following the saga of Lavabit, the company has now filed its brief in the Fourth Circuit.

In July, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court undertook to collect more detailed statistics than those required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  Among other things, the latter calls ...

As a short follow up to Ben's post about the editorial judgment of the Washington Post, I am reminded of what the New York Times Public Editor, Byron Calame said about the SWIFT disclosures, in an opinio...

The Washington Post this morning has the latest Snowden-leaked document story: "The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging...

Over at Security States,  I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...

So reports the Wall Street Journal.  As one of my colleagues commented "is anyone surprised?"  Here's the lede: Germany’s foreign intelligence service acknowledged tapping data flowing through a key Fran...

Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a piece suggesting that folks at NSA feel abandoned by President Obama's failure to defend the agency aggressively: Gen. Keith Alexander and his senior leadership...

A few weeks ago the NYT had a piece by David Sanger about how the Snowden revelations will hurt if not kill the NSA’s ambitious plans for cybersecurity defense in the U.S. homeland.  “Administration offi...

Over at Security States and The New Republic, I have another blog, entitled: "What Big Data Does, And Doesn't Know About Me."  It tells the story of how I went digging into the data holdings that one big...

At the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the other day on NSA programs, I talked a lot about the importance and centrality of compliance procedures. And I quoted a quip by NSA's compliance chief, Joh...