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Surveillance and Cyberspace
As Raffaela has already noted, in today's Washington Post there is a fascinating story about government plans to require new cyber communications technologies to provide a means by which the government c... -
Carrie Cordero on Questions to Ask After the Boston Attacks
Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c... -
STOCK Act: Congress Comes to Its Senses and Repeals Financial Information Internet Publication Requirements
Last Thursday and Friday, the Senate and House respectively passed legislation providing that Sections 8 and 11 of the STOCK Act, which would have required publication on the Internet of the financial di... -
Motions on <em>Clapper</em>'s Implications for Standing in the <em>Hedges</em> Second Circuit Appeal
Peter Margulies recently discussed the effect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA denying standing to plaintiffs challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping p... -
The Return of Practical Obscurity?
The European Union has begun consideration of a new Data Protection Directive that is intended to protect personal information from uwarranted disclosure by corporations or governments. Among the more c... -
STOCK Act: NAPA Recommends Congress "Indefinitely Suspend" Requirement for Internet Posting of Financial Disclosure Forms
Today, a National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) task force released a report mandated by Congress on the risks posed by Section 11 of the STOCK Act, which would require Internet publication of ... -
Updating the ECPA
Who says that bipartisanship is dead and that our legislative process doesn't work. For those who despair in all cases, take note today of the joint effort by Senators Leahy and Lee to update the Electr... -
Drones, Domestic Detention, and the Costs of Libertarian Hijacking
The more I reflect on last week's drone contretemps--and what effect the efforts of Senator Paul and his followers has had / may still have on U.S. policy--the more I have a profound and distressing sens... -
Government Uses Lethal Force Against U.S. Citizen on U.S. Soil...
I'm not at all happy that today's news out of upstate New York proves the point that Jack and I (and a cast of dozens) have tried to make about domestic use of lethal force, but it's worth pointing out t... -
On Senator Paul’s Filibuster
Recall that Senator Paul asked John Brennan whether he believed the President “has the authority to order lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without a trial?,”... -
Google's Transparency Report on NSLs
In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies se... -
Peter Margulies on Clapper
Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following comments on yesterday's Clapper decision: The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International reads at fi...
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